Canton approves raises for 3 town employees; may move date of retail medical marijuana vote

CANTON – Selectmen approved pay increases for three city employees at their meeting on Thursday.

City clerk Carol Buzzell, Dave Madison, head of the sewage department, and Jim Dyment, the transfer station clerk, will receive pay increases retroactively as of July 1st.

Before voting on the raise, town treasurer Vernice Boyd spoke highly of Buzzell’s work and encouraged voters to give her a raise. Also speaking on behalf of Buzzell was city resident Rene Ouellette, who said Buzzell should be given “the same opportunity” for a raise as Highway Foreman Paul McKenna did in July after a board meeting during a meeting of selected members. McKenna is now making $ 23.50 an hour.

Also approved during Thursday’s meeting, Highway Department employees Paul and Jerry McKenna will receive up to $ 500 in reimbursement for clothing and shoes in the workplace.

On other matters, voters discussed the possibility of moving the date for a vote on medical marijuana retail stores in the city to November during the general election and referendum vote. The chosen ones decided that Buzzell would contact Kevin Belanger for his opinion on a possible date change from a possible end of August to November. Belanger handed the city a 55-signature petition in June to vote on the approval of medical marijuana businesses in the city.

While discussing changing the date for the marijuana retail vote, Selectman chair Russell Adams told the board that a November vote would “make more sense” as the city would hold general elections by then. The vote on whether to set up medical marijuana shops in the city was also discussed at previous board meetings.

On other matters, local resident Richard Landry interviewed electorates about several issues that he disapproved of regarding city events and one of their electorates.

Landry said Selectman Brian Keene shouldn’t be working on the city’s computers, which Keene said he “hasn’t used the city’s computers for at least two years”. Keene was the city’s technical worker at the time, but his technical work is now done by a different company, voters said. Landry also asked for Keene’s resignation, saying, “Because he’s spending so much money (out of) this town. In this city, you (chosen ones) spend money like it’s going out of style; Taxes and everything else, ”he said.

Landry said he was also upset about the new signs being posted across town because “the town didn’t know about it”. He wanted to know how much each sign was, and Selectmen Adams and Carole Robbins both said they didn’t know the exact amount, but the funds for the signs came from the city’s Community Benefits Fund.

Voters also said information about the signs was posted in local newspapers and in the city’s own newspaper, the Canton Crier. Landry also wanted to know why there were cameras at the transfer station and other places around town that he was told were supposed to prevent theft in the piles of metal and for security reasons.

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