WEST PARIS – Selectman Wade Rainey announced Thursday that a $3,750 grant to help fund a parking lot and septic system at the Arthur L. Mann Memorial Library has been approved by the Maine Community Foundation.

Rainey, chairman of the board, said the grant requires a local match from the town to bring the total to $7,500, “and the library trustees are planning a fund-raising campaign to raise the money for the match.”

Selectman Harlan Abbott said, “They are going to hold a bake sale this Saturday starting at 9 a.m. at the historical society building. They also will be holding a book sale at the library. These events will be to start the fund-raising campaign so they can come up with the local match.”

Rainey said the parking lot will be located in the old skating rink area off Main Street with the septic system, which will be shared by the grange, located in the upper area of the lot directly in back of the two buildings.

Abbott said the work will probably be done during the spring and summer 2004.

“Walter Horton is engineering the septic plan at this time and as soon as that is done the septic system can be put in. But the whole project probably won’t be done until next summer. Also it will depend a lot on when the library can raise the money they need for the local match,” said Abbott.

Selectmen will vote to formally accept the grant from the state as soon as the local match is raised.

In other business, selectmen voted to remit the second payment for this year to the Tri-Town Ambulance and Rescue Service. The payment will be $4,500, which is a third of the $13,500 total, and final third will be paid this fall. The first payment was made in June.

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