Special Town Meeting: Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad

The official ballot for the Town of Gray November 8, 2016 election will include a special town meeting question for a proposed budget appropriation as follows:

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?

Visit the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Railroad Co. & Museum online for additional information about their planned relocation to Gray.