Glen Davis is concerned about the condition of King Hill Road.
PARIS – Glen Davis, owner of the King’s Hill Inn, brought concerns about his road to selectmen at their Monday night meeting. Davis worried that the damage done to King Hill Road during severe storms in December would only be patched and not adequately repaired.

Town Manager Steve McAllister took the opportunity to announce that the town has received another Federal Emergency Management Agency grant due to last December’s storms.

The $17,000 is to be used “on permanent work, to solve the problem so it doesn’t happen again,” McAllister said. King Hill is one of many roads in the town that will receive rehabilitation work as a result of the grant, he said.

McAllister said that inadequate drainage, due to poor ditches and culverts, has caused most of the damage on King Hill Road.

A previous FEMA grant awarded $10,000 to the town for reimbursement of costs incurred because of the December storms and resulting floods.

In other business, McAllister shared research he had done on proposed tax caps with selectmen.

If the statewide tax cap proposed by Carol Palesky were to pass, he said, the town of Paris would have “somewhere around $2 million that we can tax.” He said, “The school bill is $2.3 million.” Under the proposal, there would be a 1 percent cap on property taxes. It also would roll back assessments to where they were in 1996-97.

The tax-cap proposal will go to voters in June or November, depending on state legislators’ choice.