The Woolwich Select Board is weighing the impact of the new Morse High School on property taxes. Monday evening, Chairman David King Sr. said estimates released Sept. 9 by Regional School Unit 1 put the town’s share at 22.8 percent, over $4 million for local costs.

King said this would cost the town’s taxpayers an extra $30 for every $100,000 of valuation to cover local add-ons not covered by the state for construction.

“A property owner with a valuation of $200,000 would pay $60 more each year for as long as it’s financed,” he said.

School officials will be scheduling an informational meeting in Woolwich and other communities in RSU 1 to explain the financing package and funding formula. The local share is based on student enrollment, cost per pupil and the state subsidy a community receives. Bath, accounting for over 60 percent of enrollment, would cover 56.62 percent of local costs.

RSU 1 is made up of Bath, Woolwich, Arrowsic and Phippsburg. The local contribution of the $75.4 million high school is estimated at $7.2 million. School officials are considering a 20-year bond to finance the add-ons.

Selectman Allison Hepler attended a Sept. 12 meeting on the new school hosted by RSU officials but was absent from Monday’s select board meeting.

“The RSU board will coming around in the next month or so to explain the bond; this is when we should ask for further explanation,” she wrote in a email to the select board.

Hepler also updated the board on a recent meeting she had with Kennebec Estuary Land Trust officials. She noted KELT expressed an interest is helping the town pursue funding sources to replace a small bridge on George Wright Road. Following a state inspection, the bridge was rated in poor condition. The select board hired an engineering firm to develop options for dealing with the problem.

The board will look into having security cameras installed at Nequasset Waterfront Park after the bathroom there was recently vandalized.  The board is also considering locking the bathroom overnight.

The select board appointed Rebecca Roche to the Communication Committee, Jim Gabor to the Monument Committee and Dan Harrington to the Shellfish Committee.

Helen Hill of Carlton Point Road submitted the highest of four bids received for a surplus fire department pickup. Hill bid $2,700. Funds from the sale will go into the department’s equipment account.

The department’s annual open house is Thursday, Oct. 19.