City of Dover issued the following announcement on December 6.
The City Council will meet for its first regular meeting of December this Wednesday, Dec. 8, at City Hall’s Council Chambers. Agenda items include two public hearings and several resolutions, including a proposal to allow Red’s Good Vibes to utilize the city’s food trailer to expand operations, and a settlement and funding agreement between the City of Dover and New England Metal Recycling, LLC.
Red’s Good Vibes is a nonprofit organization with a mission to provide meals to those experiencing food insecurity. The drafted agreement would allow Red’s Good Vibes to utilize the food trailer to prepare and serve food to those in need at a lease of $1 per year. The agreement would be for one year, with an option to renew it for two additional years. The City Council held a workshop on the proposal on Dec. 1, which can be viewed here: https://dovernh.viebit.com/player.php?hash=q0yXdfgw0uc6.
Funding and settlement agreement with New England Metal Recycling
The City Council will also consider a resolution that would approve and authorize a settlement and funding agreement between the City of Dover and New England Metal Recycling, LLC. The settlement and funding agreement is related to the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), 1,4 dioxane and methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) substances found from Pudding Hill aquifer water samples. The Pudding Hill aquifer, when in operation, provides a significant amount of the city's drinking water. The agreement the Council will consider is now included with the agenda materials, located here: https://publicrecords.dover.nh.gov/Tabs/Index/19874/public/1/deptnum/0/cab/Public_Meetings.
Last month, the City Council authorized a $13,297,910 contract to construct the Pudding Hill Water Treatment Facility capable of removing contaminants from the drinking water. City Manager J. Michael Joyal, Jr. and Community Services Director John Storer voluntarily elected to take three Pudding Hill aquifer drinking water wells offline when separate monitoring wells detected plumes of PFAS contaminants; however, no PFAS were found in the drinking water pumped from the wells.
Public hearings
The public hearings are on a resolution that would eliminate the City Council’s orientation sessions to be video recorded and broadcast on Channel 22 and changes to the Vehicles and Traffic ordinance. The changes to the ordinance include codifying the pay-by-phone option and providing up to three hours a day of free parking to those with special license plates. The license plates include Purple Heart, Gold Star, Prisoner of War, and Pearl Harbor Survivor.
The meeting will broadcast live on Channel 22, streamed live and be available for on-demand viewing at https://dovernh.viebit.com. For the complete agenda and materials, click here.
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