FARMINGTON – Selectmen are scheduled Tuesday to meet with SAD 9 officials to discuss issues of mutual concern regarding the 2004 budget process.

The meeting, to be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Municipal Building, was postponed from an earlier date.

Following that discussion, selectmen are scheduled to hold a public hearing on a proposed roller skating, skateboarding and scooter-riding ordinance. The ordinance, which outlines where these activities can be done, is expected to be taken up by voters at the annual March town meeting.

Town Manager Richard Davis said he learned Friday that the town did not get the grant it sponsored for the water district to extend drinking water lines to three senior citizen apartment complexes. The complexes on Titcomb Hill Road are served by three old wells that were to be eliminated, if the grant was approved.

A planning grant was approved and used to do design work on extending the Farmington Village Corp. water line to the complexes.

Davis also noted that the town didn’t qualify for a comprehensive parking development grant because it had received the planning grant for the water line extension.

Davis said he would discuss exploring other funding options with selectmen in attempts to alleviate the downtown parking constraints.

dperry@sunjournal.com

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