CONWAY — If you visit the town’s website to view the warrant for Monday’s Special Town Meeting, you will think the Finance Committee is unanimously opposed to spending $200,000 for a new highway garage.
That was true, but is no longer.
Finance Committee Chairman Alan Singer and member Roy Cohen said the four people on their committee changed their votes after getting a better understanding what the article calls for.
Adoption of the article would move $200,000 for design work from the town’s Garage Stabilization Fund, from which money cannot be spent, to the Highway Garage Fund. The money would pay to hire a project manager and to revise existing plans to build a garage behind the salt shed near Conway Grammar School. The article, which was also unanimously recommended by the town’s three-member Select Board, requires a two-thirds majority of voters at Town Meeting to pass.
Town Administrator Tom Hutcheson said he met with the Finance Committee, Highway Superintendent Ron Sweet and the former chairman of the garage committee at a public meeting to better explain to committee members what the article entails.
The special town meeting is slated to begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Grammar School on Monday.