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Apology from Selectman for Challenge to FWD

3/25/2017

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In a recent phone call to chairman Greg Huang-Dale of the Fryeburg Water District, Selectman Rick Eastman apologized for "not doing [his] homework" regarding the town's ability to call for a vote to dissolve the FWD board of trustees.  Damon Steer's article in the March 17 edition of the Conway Daily Sun reported on Selectman Eastman's call for an article in the town warrant to dissolve the Fryeburg Water District.  
Eastman's apology came as a result of a review of the laws which gives no power of jurisdiction over the Water District to the town of Fryeburg officials.  The Fryeburg Water District is set up as a distinct quasi-municipal board with specific responsibilities to the residents of the water district and customers of the Fryeburg Water Company.  Only the Water District board itself may call for a vote of dissolution.
As reported in the Daily Sun article by Damon Steer, the district brought this to a vote in 2015 and citizens voted strongly in favor of keeping the board viable and active - 299 in favor of the district and 160 opposed.  The sitting board of Trustees for the Water District do not intend to call a vote again so soon after resounding support was given.  
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