FEMA accounting
JAMAICA — JAMAICA-According to Selectboard member Paul Fraser, speaking at the Selectboard meeting Feb. 11, two road projects on West Jamaica Road are being closed out, with costs only apparently coming in below the FEMA estimate. Fraser explained that once invoices from a gravel pit contractor arrive, the project costs will be seen to land closer to the estimate.
Plan B for snowy sidewalks
JAMAICA-The board has noted that no one has yet been identified to clear snow from town sidewalks, and that an entrepreneur has proposed bringing out a snowblower to do the work for $30 an hour.
Board members contemplated the town purchasing its own tractor next year, but agreed that in the meantime, with the help of the town highway department clearing the blown snow, the town would go with this arrangement.