NORWAY – Norway-Paris Solid Waste Corp. wants a fair price for its share of the recycling building on Brown Street, Vice President Ray Garnett said.

“I just think we owe it to the towns to get a fair market price,” he said.

Negotiations have been under way since the board of the Oxford County Regional Solid Waste Corp. approached the Norway-Paris Solid Waste board a month ago about a possible buyout.

Oxford County Regional Solid Waste serves more than 20 towns and operates the recycling center next to the Norway waste station. Norway and Paris provide about 40 percent of the center’s recyclables.

The Norway-Paris board determined it owns 51 percent of the building. The board got an appraisal, which set the fair market price at $210,000.

“My thought is, you’re looking at half of $210,000, or $105,000,” Garnett said.

The Oxford County board didn’t see it that way. One board member mentioned a price of $14,000; another suggested $20,000.

Garnett said it is likely the negotiated price will fall somewhere between the appraisal and the Oxford County board’s offer.

He said the contract between the two nonprofit quasi-municipal corporations did not spell out what should happen if the Oxford County corporation wanted to buy the Norway-Paris corporation’s share of the building.

An addition to the recycling building to handle TVs, computer monitors and other so-called “universal waste” is nearing completion.

“We’re willing to negotiate,” said Garnett. “But we’re not willing to give it away either.”

Norway-Paris board members are appointed by selectmen. Each town raised $282,000 this year to fund the operation.