The Spurwink Rod & Gun Club in Cape Elizabeth is in the process of resubmitting its license application after the town’s Firing Range Committee deemed it incomplete last week.

According to Caitlin Jordan, committee chairwoman, the club has until June 1 to turn in the updated paperwork.

Firing Range Committee members reviewed the 61-year-old club’s first license renewal application during its meeting May 4 and determined that at least seven separate items were missing or lacked detail, including a thorough description of the firearms and ammunition used on the Sawyer Road property.

The committee also requested more information regarding recent studies completed on the property, including a sound contour study, a copy of the deed to the land, and proof of liability insurance, as required by the town’s shooting range ordinance.

“Just looking at the application, I knew going into the meeting that it was going to be incomplete because we had never received any certificate of insurance throughout the entire process,” Jordan said.

Mark Mayone, former gun club president and member of the Firing Range Committee, told committee members at the May 4 meeting that the club in fact owns the land and had previously appointed him as its spokesperson.

Jordan said the committee has also requested the minutes of the meeting where Mayone was given that role, to include as part of the application, as well as the site plan showing dwellings located within half a mile from the shooting range.

Jordan said the town’s Firing Range Committee is scheduled to meet Monday, June 8, to review the application. The Town Council is finalizing contract details for an independent safety evaluation to be performed at the shooting range in the coming weeks, Jordan said.

A formal safety report will then be given to the council before it is forwarded to the Firing Range Committee within the next couple of months to consider as part of the application process.

The Town Council will approve the application once the Firing Range Committee formally accepts it.

“I am not going to be looking to approve or disapprove (the license application), until I see the independent safety evaluation,” said Jordan, also a council member. “We would never have created a shooting range ordinance if it hadn’t been for the complaints of the neighbors, about making sure the range was safe.”

The club is required to apply for a license annually under the town’s first-ever shooting range ordinance adopted by the Town Council in March 2014. After spending the last year making safety upgrades, gun club members submitted their application on April 6, four days before it was due.

In addition to recently erecting three 8-foot-tall concrete shot-containment walls and installing rubber backstop berms to enhance safety on the property, Tammy Walter, the gun club’s president, has set up an online GoFundMe fundraising campaign to raise $40,000 to build a new 35-by-14-foot shooting shed to reduce noise impacts on the nearby Cross Hill neighborhood.

Due to financial constraints, the club estimated that any further plans to upgrade the facility, such as installing engineered baffles above the shooting range to contain stray bullets, and building the shooting shed, would likely not occur for a couple of years.

“Safety is what our neighbors have said is their priority,” Walter said, during the May 4 meeting. “At the last few meetings, we have heard nothing about safety. Now the neighbors group is complaining about noise and they want a shooting shed built faster.”