Selectmen accepted the bid for a 14-yard truck body.
BUCKFIELD – Selectmen voted Tuesday night to accept the low bid of $5,585 from Morrison and Sylvester for a new 14-yard truck body with head board and other equipment.
The unit will go on the 1985 International wheeler truck. The board voted to appropriate the money from the highway equipment reserve.
The board also voted to proceed with legal action against Roger Bennett and James Bishop, both of Depot Street, for their illegal junkyards. The two had been given a deadline extension for compliance and failed to meet it.
At the last selectmen’s meeting, Allen Young of Shed Hollow Road had asked for an extension and was granted one after he told the board he would remove all of his vehicles.
At the last meeting, selectmen had tabled a decision to issue individual permits to contractors transporting equipment for the Route 117 project. Selectman Oscar Gammon said the contractor’s bond of $9,000 per kilometer of traveled length for any road damage would not be enough and suggested they try to negotiate for a better price.
The board accepted Richard Piper, Robert Tift, Charles Brown, Jerald Wiley and Steven Wade to be on the road committee. They will be expected to participate in reviewing roads and advising the road commissioner.
Selectmen voted to have informational meetings April 13 and 27 on the municipal center parking and landscape project. Selectman Joanne Bly said she thought the focus should be first on parking.
Fred Cooper said speed, street parking and jaywalkers are making village streets unsafe.
Bly said officials hope that the new municipal parking lot would ease this situation.
The board also discussed putting up no parking signs on streets.
Cooper also suggested more law enforcement would help.
Jillian Chabe was appointed to the Recreation Commission.
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