The Town of Putnam is seeking a Certified Connecticut Municipal Assessor (CCMA) I. This position will report to the Town Administrator and will coordinate with the Mayor and various Town Committees including the Board of Assessment Appeals. This position performs a variety of professional, technical, supervisory, and administrative work in performing assessment duties imposed by State and local law. Responsible for assessment of real, personal, and motor vehicle property for the preparation of the annual Grand List
This full-time position is a salaried position, based on a typical 35-hour work week schedule. The expected salary range is between $70,000 - $75,000 per year, with negotiation depending on experience. There is health, dental, pension and other benefits with this position. Vacation, personal leave, and sick leave accruals are applicable.
Full Job Posting, including requirements, and submittal details, can be found on the Town of Putnam’s website here: https://www.putnamct.us/departments/human-resources/job-postings End date to apply: Aug. 8, 2022.
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First River Fire
After the al Fresco "That's Amore," performance at Rotary Park July 23, the season's first River Fire debuted with new pots fueled by propane. The 20 pots were the brainchild of the Highway Department and others and took more than a year to create. They use propane instead of wood. More photos on page 4. Linda Lemmon photo.
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Conceptual drawing of reworked commuter lot on Kennedy Drive
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM — The Kennedy Drive commuter lot, now free of its DMV shed, is in line for a major makeover.
In the near future, the town plans to put a bit of paving where the DMV shed stood and add some additional parking spaces, according to Town Administrator Elaine Sistare.
But already in the works, she said, are the town’s purchase of the Eversource (formerly CL&P) property that abuts the lot and then an overhaul of the whole thing.
The conceptual plan, drawn up by J&D Civil Engineers LLC of N. Grosvenordale this past January, calls for 195 parking spaces. The whole lot would be reworked, including the exits/entrances. She said the plan includes dispensing with the entrance/exit that is closest to the intersection on Kennedy Drive. Bottlenecks tend to occur at that one. The plan shows 20 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, relocated handicapped parking spaces and the possibly another set of stairs next to the Centreville Bank stairs to get to the Main Street/Union Square area. In addition some landscaped strips dot the plans. Currently there are round about 125 spaces.
“The design would modify the whole thing,” she said.
While the paving of the DMV area and the addition of parking spaces is being worked on shortly, the town is waiting for the cleanup of the Eversource jot of land next to the town’s parking lot. When the cleanup is complete the town will buy that lot. Because that will be paved, storm water improvements will need to be made there as well.
Sistare said she expects the conceptual parking lot plan to be finalized by this coming spring and then bids and then construction by the beginning of summer, 2023.
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Joe Gonsalves
Brandy Hapgood
Workers
Seated: Eva-Marie Robert from Chace Building Supply. Front row, from left: John Miller; then from Centreville Bank: Deb Tavernier, Ryan Kania, Mary Murphy and Melissa Hendrickson. Back, from Centreville Bank: Brian Carillon, Brandy Hapgood, Heather Berard, Theresa Wosencroft, Joe Gonsalves, Justin Bissanti and Shana Silveira. More photos Wed. night on Facebook: Putnam Town Crier & Northeast Ledger.
Heather Berard sanding
Miller Park
revived:
'Many
hands ...'
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM — It’s a park that sits quietly in the middle of all the hub-bub. Across from Around 1998, the space at the Belding intersection was dedicated to Robert Miller, former town historian. And then … not much happened.
Until last week.
The park was in search of some help, and Centreville Bank, was in search of a project to help the community. Dovetail.
July 19 a crew of Centreville Bank managers descended into the park and in blistering heat, made quick work of reviving the park. They trimmed and trimmed out brush, scraped the huge kiosk and painted.
Brandy Hapgood, one of two bank district executives, said every quarter the managers get together. “We do business training in the morning and then we do a community project in the afternoon,” she said.
John Miller, Miller’s nephew, a strong community member and a member of the bank’s board, had talked to Putnam’s Economic Development Director Delpha Very about reviving the park. Very, head of the Putnam Business Association’s Beautification Committee, was looking for volunteers for Beautification projects at a PBA meeting. She said Hapgood told her the bank needed a community project. And Eva-Marie Roberts, the paint studio manager at Chace Building Supply, offered her services (and she joined the committee right then and there, Very said).
All the informational plaques, maps and the bronze plaque dedicating the park to Robert Miller, were removed and Very said Joe Deery of Powerful Improvements power washed the large right-angled kiosk.
Roberts brought the exterior latex paint, lots of supplies and her expertise. The crew set about scraping and then, painted the white background and the red edge of the top of the kiosk.
Very said the bronze plaque will go back up. The maps and the information on the mills and the River Trail would be revised and then may go back up. “There’s lots of opportunities,” Very said. It’s a big space. Possibilities range from signage, announcements, general information, historic relevance and storytelling, just to name a few.
She said she expects the shining “new” Miller Park will be all put together within the next three to six months.
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