April 14, 2010
Dover
Dover Selectmen give Town Administrator a raise
By Matt Tempesta
Dover—
The Board of Selectmen revised its operating budget for fiscal 2011 to include a salary of $141,286 for the Town Administrator during last Thursday’s meeting.
Town Administrator David Ramsay’s three-year contract expires in June of this year. After negotiations between the Board of Selectmen and the town administrator, the board approved the salary, which is up from $137,726 from the year before.
Also at the meeting, several contracts for town projects were awarded. A catch basin-cleaning contract was awarded to DMC Corporation at $13.18 per basin, and street line painting was awarded to Markings Inc. The selectmen also voted to use $440,000 in state funds to resurface Dedham Street in Dover. This project is scheduled to begin over the summer, but must be approved by the state first.
In other business, the selectmen voted to pass a resolution asking state legislators to support an expansion of the bottle bill. The bottle bill was first enacted in Massachusetts in 1983, and provides a 5-cent deposit on beer, soft drinks and mineral water in order to provide incentives for recycling.
The resolution passed seeks to add bottled water, sports drinks and teas to the deposit laws. According to www.bottlebill.org, this new resolution could raise up to $20 million in state funds while increasing the rate of recycling and create more recycling-based jobs.
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