The Vienna Select Board, 30 Mile River Watershed, and The Vienna Culvert Steering Committee are having an informational meeting Tuesday, May 27th at 7;00pm located at the Vienna community room to discuss possible grants to help with culvert/bridge projects in the town. All are encouraged to attend.
See this document for further information
The Vienna Select Board, 30 Mile River Watershed, and The Vienna Culvert Steering Committee are having an informational meeting Tuesday, May 27th at 7;00pm located at the Vienna community room to discuss possible grants to help with culvert/bridge projects in the town. All are encouraged to attend.
Voting is at the Vienna Community Center (Fire Station) on the Kimball Pond Road
Absentee ballots are now available from the town clerk
If you have a fairpoint.net email address and will be switching from DSL with Consolidated Communications to our fiber to the home broadband offer (a very good deal!), you will need to get a new email provider.
The Dr Shaw Library will be offering a class on how to do this.
May 29 from 5-6:30 Email Addresses Class Dr Shaw Memorial Library
If you are in the process of getting a new email address, this class is for you! There is no charge, but letting us know how many to expect is helpful. Please call the library at 293-2565 or email us if you plan to come. Librarian@drshawlib.org
The selectmen and the Culvert Steering Committee will be having an informational meeting:
7:00 pm May 27 at the Community Center on Kimball Pond Road
As you know, major storms have caused severe and recurring wash-outs on roads in Vienna. The Culvert Steering Committee has been working with 30 Mile River Watershed Association on some solutions for the four worst sites, on Kimball Pond Road, Jesse Ladd Road, Trask Road, and Tower Road. 30 Mile obtained ~$100,000.00 in grants for the town last year to enable development of engineering plans to create long term solutions for all four sites, and they are now working with the town to obtain grants to help fund the actual solutions. Please attend this meeting to get an update on what is planned and the anticipated costs.
The Town is accepting bids for both the on road plowing contract along with the off Road plowing/shoveling contract
Contact the Selectboard: Chris Smith: 207-860-8574 or Jeff Rackliff: 207-491-1621
Bids are due by 6:45 PM on June 2, 2025
Nomination papers are available at the Town Clerk's office:
Contact Annie Tibbetts: 207-293-2915 - email: ClerkTax@Viennamaine.org
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MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE VIENNA
PLANNING BOARD HELD MARCH 26, 2025
The meeting began at 7:00 PM at the Town House. Regular members present
were Waine Whittier, Creston Gaither, Alan Williams, Ed Lawless, and
Tim Bickford. Alternate member Steve Trehu was also present. Minutes
of the February 26 meeting were read and accepted.
The possibility of a solar farm ordinance (see January minutes) was discussed
briefly. Alan will try to work up a draft ordinance for review at the
Board’s April meeting, as the May meeting might be a good occasion for
a public hearing in anticipation of a vote in June (when a selectman
election is already scheduled).
Short term rentals (see February minutes) were briefly discussed. Steve has
talked to people who live on ponds in Fayette about the problems that
may exist. Renters seem not to understand the sensitivity of the ponds.
Online investment firms appear to be marketing real estate to
management firms which rent the properties out. Steve noted that the
Fayette ordinance merely requires permits but does not prohibit rentals.
It also requires some tenant education efforts by landlords. If Vienna
creates a similar ordinance, applicability will have to be addressed,
regarding permissive rent-free uses and location (pondside or town-
wide). There was a general consensus that the Board should move ahead
with this matter, possibly after further discussion. The issues which a
Vienna ordinance should address must be determined.
It was agreed that the prospective mooring ordinance (see March 2023
minutes) can wait until the aforementioned ordinances have been
resolved.
The meeting adjourned at 7:45 PM.
Creston Gaither, secretary
MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE VIENNA
PLANNING BOARD HELD JANUARY 22, 2025
The meeting began at 7:00 PM at the Town House. Regular members present were Waine Whittier, Creston Gaither, Alan Williams, and Tim Bickford. Alternate member Steve Trehu was also present and he was appointed a voting member in the absence of Ed Lawless.
Minutes of the December 4, 2024 meeting were read and accepted.
The Board discussed the possibility of enacting a temporary moratorium on solar power farms in Vienna (see December minutes).The wording of the proposed article for Town Meeting was discussed. It was agreed that no public hearing will be necessary for the moratorium but that we will need one for the final ordinance itself.
Steve mentioned a new ordinance that Fayette has enacted controlling short-term rentals (such as Air BnBs) and suggested that Vienna may want to consider enacting such an ordinance. Control of houseboats was also discussed. The State may be enacting statutes to deal with this.
The meeting adjourned at 7:45 PM.
