The Whitefield Board of Selectmen received notification that the town can expect to take possession soon of a 1996 rescue vehicle to replace the ambulance it currently has.
At the board’s regular meeting Monday, Whitefield selectman Sue McKeen said Tia Pass, formerly of Whitefield Rescue and now living in New Hampshire, was instrumental in having McGregor Memorial Ambulance Service of Durham, N.H., donate the vehicle to the town of Whitefield for its First Responders unit.
“It’s in beautiful condition,” said McKeen.
In other agenda items, Nikki Abbott was hired as the town’s health officer, on condition that she pass an online course on the position’s responsibilities. McKeen said, “Every town has to have a local health officer but it doesn’t have to be a public health nurse.”
In 2008 the Office of Local Public Health was created in the Maine Center for Disease Control Administration. According to the health office’s website, it collaborates with the Dept. of Health and Human Services to strengthen and improve public health services and infrastructure at the local and district level.
The town received a bill for $39 from Central Maine Power for electricity costs associated with streetlights. The town voted no money for streetlights at March town meeting and service was discontinued at some 27 locations throughout Whitefield as of July 1.
However, said McKeen, “two or three people wanted the lights left on in front of their houses and offered to pay for them.” She said she would follow up the matter with the electrical company.
