MINOT – The funding package for the Minot Consolidated School’s new well may be coming undone, Town Administrator Gregory Gill told selectmen Monday night.

The problem is that $45,000 of the $55,000 package, which Gill said he understood would come from a Maine State Department of Education revolving renovation fund, actually comes through the Maine Municipal Bond Bank.

“In order for us to legally draw money from the bond bank, we need a specific referendum vote by the town’s legislative body, the town meeting,” said Gill.

Gill said he learned about the funding particulars last week, July 13, through a memo from the Union 29 superintendent’s office. The memo notes that the deadline for participating in this year’s issuance through the revolving renovation fund is Sept. 1.

Since the lead time for holding a referendum vote to authorize participation in the bond bank funding is at least 45 days, selectmen directed Gill to alert school officials to the situation and recommend that they resubmit their funding application next year.

The good news is that the well itself has been paid for and its water meets all current quality standards. The $55,000 being sought from state sources will be used for a filtration system and a building to house the system, which will be needed to meet water quality standards the state intends to put into effect in 2006.

After an hour-long executive session with attorneys Jamie Belleau and Norm Ratty to discuss the status of portions of three town roads, selectmen emerged only to say they are still researching the history of Old Buckfield Road, York Road and Goodwin Road, which is a spur road off Pottle Hill Road.

They noted, however, that they had filed a response in court to a claim by Kevin Franchetti of Manchester, who claims selectmen were wrong that a part of York Road is legally abandoned. Franchetti claims that in January he was refused a building permit for a house on his land on York Road.

Meeting with the town’s road manager, Arlan Saunders, to discuss participation in the Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments’ salt bid, selectmen authorized Saunders to bid for 800 tons for next winter’s roads.

Saunders told selectmen that he had sent a formal request for the Maine Department of Transportation to review the speed limit on Verrill Road. Saunders said that Maine State Police brought up the matter to him, recommending the limit be reduced to 35 mph.

In other business, Gill told selectmen that Lee Bragg, the town attorney who he had contacted regarding problems with Adelphia, has advised that the board take no action against Adelphia in its effort to settle on a new contract. Gill said Bragg indicated that there are two companies that appear interested in acquiring Adelphia franchises in Maine, and chances are that the town will be dealing with one of them regarding a contract for cable services.