HARPSWELL

In a special meeting last week, selectmen approved several “housekeeping” items, including a request for proposals to several local banks to provide Harpswell’s tax anticipatory financing.

Responses are due May 15, and will be taken to selectmen for consideration and approval.

Anticipatory financing notes are short-term lines of credit taken out by municipalities against expected tax revenues, and used to pay for operating costs until taxes are collected. Then the note is repaid.

In other business, Selectmen approved William Cotter’s application for a new septic holding tank on his Leeman Road property on Orr’s Island. If not for the board agreeing to the special Friday meeting, Cotter would have had to wait two additional weeks for his application to be considered. Selectmen believed that an unnecessary hardship and, as long as they were meeting, decided to consider the other two items, as well.

Also Friday, the board approved local resident Sandra Bichrest as the town’s new deputy tax collector, payroll and accounts payable clerk. The two part-time positions were combined to one full-time job during this year’s annual Town Meeting.

The selectmen’s next regular meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m., Thursday, April 11.

jtleonard@timesrecord.com