FARMINGTON – Selectmen are expected to consider a grant/loan application to upgrade or replace 20 downtown decorative lights Tuesday.
Davis said he will discuss a new grant program with selectmen from the Municipal Investment Trust Fund for the work.
The grant/loan is open to Service Center Communities, a designation which includes Farmington. It would be 50 percent match to replace the 20 lights.
Recently, selectmen had a company repair the lights after people complained of getting shocks, usually during damp or wet weather, when touching the lights. That project was expected to cost $1,800 but was less than $1,000, Town Manager Richard Davis said.
They’re still working on the lights, he said, but two lights aren’t working.
The selectmen’s meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Municipal Building with a hearing on annual amendments to the general assistance ordinance.
The board is also scheduled to consider a permit to exceed the legal load limit in the road construction area of Fairbanks Road. The state is planning to improve a section of the road, also known as routes 4 and 27.
If the permit is granted, selectmen would be able to require any of the state’s contractors working on the project to put up a bond to cover any damages that might occur to the road, Davis said.
Davis said he thinks that this fall the state plans to have utility poles relocated on the stretch of road from Belcher Street, near the World War I monument, to near Jack’s Trading Post.
Selectmen will also hear from Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent Steve Moore about bids for sludge removal. Sludge from the sewage treatment process either has to be land spread or composted. Several bids were received, Davis said.
Board members are scheduled to also consider transferring a pawnshop license for The Three Stooges Pawnshop on Farmington Falls Road to Claire Liwiski, whose husband died recently. He had operated the shop.
Liwiski is trying to clean the place out, Davis said, and doesn’t plan to reapply for the license once it expires in January.
dperry@sunjournal.com
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