NORWAY – Town Manager David Holt told selectmen at Thursday night’s meeting that he has talked to the Maine Department of Transportation about putting in a “no left turn sign” near the Rowe School.

The proposed sign would prohibit cars coming from South Paris on Route 117 from turning left onto Route 118 toward the hospital.

Holt said that a designer who had worked on Norway’s downtown area recommended a roundabout in the intersection. Selectmen were uncertain about the idea, because, as George Tibbetts said, “I just can’t see that there’s room for it.” Holt said that MDOT will look at the problem.

Holt also reported that since the town’s population has dropped, MDOT is now legally required to plow Main Street. Selectmen agreed with Holt that they would prefer to be reimbursed by the state for all or part of the cost of plowing the street. “I don’t think it would be in the town’s interest to have DOT plow Main Street,” Holt said. “I think what they do is just plow it onto the sidewalks.”

Holt said that the state uses a set formula to determine the cost of plowing based on the road mileage and snowfall.

In other business, selectman Robert Walker asked if selectmen would be interested in meeting on a bimonthly basis with selectmen from Paris and Oxford to discuss ways in which the three towns could share services in order to lower costs. “We’re three towns that are separated by traffic lights,” Walker said. “There are many areas where maybe together we can do it cheaper.”

Selectmen agreed that cooperation between the towns would be beneficial. Walker will pursue the matter.

The board expressed its support for the Maine Municipal Association’s initiative to force the state to pay 55 percent of school funding. “It certainly would help to offset the cost of education in the town of Norway,” Holt said. The issue will be voted on statewide on June 8.