Selectman Raquel Welch told the board Monday evening that she wanted to speak with the fire chief about firefighters washing their personal vehicles at the Fire Station. Welch said when she drives past the station on nice days, she sees people washing their private vehicles.
“It’s not a car wash,” she said. “People can’t just pull up there and say that they want to wash their cars. I don’t think that should be a privilege.”
Selectman Larry Snowman said the only people he sees washing their vehicles at the station are volunteer firefighters, deputies with the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office, Maine State Police troopers and ambulance personnel. “Business vehicles, I don’t mind,” Welch told Snowman. “It’s the private vehicles. It just bugs me.”
Chairwoman Carol Roach said she’s read about other towns discussing the same issue and it “hasn’t been resolved.”