BATH
The Bath City Council will hold two public hearings Wednesday during its 6 p.m. meeting in the council chambers at Bath City Hall.
The council will hold a public hearing for a new full liquor license and special amusement license for Bath Golf Club of 387 Whiskeag Road. Applicants are Jeffrey Harris, Jason Harris and Richard Harris.
A second public hearing is scheduled on the Commercial Street sidewalk improvement project. A memo from Andrew H. Deci, director of Planning and Development, states that the city in 2011 received a Transportation Enhancement Grant for engineering and construction of sidewalk along Commercial Street from beneath the Sagadahoc Bridge to Waterfront Park.
The memo states the engineering for the project is finalized and environmental permitting is under way. The council must hold the public hearing Wednesday to meet the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. Construction will likely begin in the early spring of 2013, with the aim to complete it by July and Heritage Days.
The council is scheduled to consider approving a bid and contract with the low bidder for the city’s 2012 landfill gas system and intermediate cover project. In a memo dated Friday from Peter Owen, director of Public Works, the contractor and bid amount was omitted from the order for the contract and bid approval because staff was still negotiating with the proposed contractor.
The city council will also discuss the Huse School property at 39 Andrews Road. No longer being used by Regional School Unit 1 for Woolwich students, it is anticipated the building will be transferred to the city of Bath. The twostory, 33,534-square-foot school was built in 1941 and an addition added in 1949. It sits on a 16.69-acre lot including ball fields.
Also on the agenda: Councilors are scheduled to appoint a downtown retail representative to the Sidewalk Vending Committee with the term to expire May 2013; consider a request by the Sagadahock Real Estate Association for an egress or access to the Moses Building, Columbia Block and the Farnham Building; and discuss having an appraisal of the former YMCA property demolished earlier this year.
The Bath City Council is scheduled to enter executive session to discuss a labor matter and a property disposition matter.
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