Public Hearing Notice: Special Town Meeting

Notice is hereby given that the Gray Town Council will consider and vote on an Order to Call a Special Town Meeting to be voted by Referendum Ballot for November 8, 2016 at its regular meeting on September 20, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. at the Henry Pennell Municipal Complex, 24 Main Street, Gray, Maine.  The following is the proposed referendum ballot question:

Shall the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $498,000 and authorize a grant of such funds by the Town to the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad & Industrial Heritage Trust, a Maine nonprofit corporation, to be paid on such date after July 1, 2017 as determined by the Town Council and to be on such written terms as determined by the Town Council, after notice and a public hearing on the same, to fund the acquisition of property by such nonprofit corporation and the design, permitting and improvement of property of such nonprofit corporation at and near the New Portland Road in Gray, Maine, for economic development purposes and to support such nonprofit corporation’s location of its facilities in the Town of Gray for use of historic two-foot gauge railroad equipment for the education and enjoyment of the public.

DEBORAH S. CABANA
TOWN MANAGER