Winslow said Monday that residents do not want to lose the approximate $33,000 in annual taxes the city would lose if the Sentinel building were sold to the city for a police station.
Hodsdon Engineers, of Waterville, argued that passenger rail service will be coming to Waterville and building a police station at Head of Falls is not appropriate. “That means Waterville is set aside on rail services,” Myers said.Īt last week’s meeting, Jill Hodsdon, of A.E. He said Councilor Rosemary Winslow, D-Ward 3, made an important point at last week’s council meeting, noting that Lewiston is ahead of Bangor in a race to get passenger rail service to their communities. Myers said Monday that he will vote to build at Head of Falls, “pending changes to the financial picture.” Myers led the charge several weeks ago to explore more detailed cost estimates of renovating versus building new. “My view is, it’s too much money in this economy, and I might suggest we ask the citizens to begin a petition drive to put it to referendum,” O’Donnell said.Ĭouncilor George Myers Jr., D-Ward 2, changed his position of initially favoring buying and renovating the 15-year-old Sentinel building, which is on The Common across the street from City Hall and the current police station. O’Donnell said he will probably move to ask councilors to vote to reduce the cost for building new unless the city can come up with another way to do the project. “I’m pretty much at my limit at $2.5 million and now they’ve gone up to $3.4 million.” “The only issue I’ve got is, the price keeps going up,” O’Donnell said. Those estimates were given to the council last week.Ĭouncilor John O’Donnell, D-Ward 5, said Monday he leans toward building at Head of Falls. The council initially approved spending $2.5 million for a police station, but the city’s architect, Port City Architecture, and construction manager, Wright-Ryan Construction, Inc., developed cost estimates ranging from $3 million to $3.4 million. The city is being offered the Sentinel building for $550,000. The other thing is, you don’t have to be an engineer or an architect all it takes is common sense to realize a practically new building doesn’t cost as much to renovate as it does to build a new building.” “One is, the majority of opinion in the community is not to build at Head of Falls. “There are two things that they should be considering,” he said of councilors. From 2015 to 2016, Marge was called to serve as Interim President using her leadership skills to transition the college to a new presidency.Tonight’s meeting will be at 7 in the council chambers at The Center.įour of seven councilors said Monday they plan to vote against buying the Morning Sentinel building at 31 Front St., but Council Chairman Fred Stubbert, D-Ward 1, said he will vote to buy the Sentinel building “strictly because it’ll save the taxpayers a good deal of money - between $500,000 to $1 million.”
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She received the New York State College Learning Skills Association Award for Outstanding Professional Service in the field of Developmental Ec College’s Board of Trustees where she served until 2017.
She served as Program Director of Individualized Studies, Associate Dean of the Summer College, Dean for Academic Affairs, and Executive Vice President. In 1991 that center was cited in the National Directory of Exemplary Programs in Developmental Education. She founded the Learning Resource Center, becoming its director. Over the next 43 years she served the college in multiple positions. In 1979, she joined the faculty of Cazenovia College. Her next teaching assignment was at the University of Georgia, Athens where she taught English and was involved in the formation of the Learning Center. Her teaching career began at North Kingston Rhode Island High School. Born in Augusta, Maine, she grew up in the Boston area where she attended Medford High School and went on to graduate from the University of New Hampshire as an English major.
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