PARIS – Alison McCrady, manager of Norway-Paris Solid Waste, told selectmen Monday that the transfer station’s household hazardous waste day was “too successful.”

Residents of Norway and Paris brought in more than 170 five-gallon containers of hazardous wastes during the collection day. At $23 per container, the cost to the transfer station to dispose of these chemicals will be more than $4,000.

Basing their expectations on previous years, the transfer station had budgeted only $1,000 for disposal of household hazardous wastes. McCrady told selectmen she was asking both the towns “if you could kindly see fit to help us out with this bill.”

McCrady hoped Norway and Paris might each contribute about $1,500.

“This is not going to bankrupt Norway-Paris Solid Waste,” commented Selectman Bruce Hanson. “I’d prefer to see you wait till you get near your year-end budget” before asking the town for money.

Allocation of money would require a public hearing and special town meeting. Selectmen took no action on the request.

Selectmen also decided not to ask the town for funds for a sidewalk on High Street. The Maine Department of Transportation has asked that selectmen take measures to provide $150,000 toward 1.43 miles of sidewalk. The proposed sidewalk would extend from the junction of High Street and Route 26 near Moore Park to the site of the new Paris elementary school.

“There’s several places I’m not even sure you could fit a sidewalk in there,” said Selectman Ray Glover. MDOT’s proposal had noted that the project “may require tree removal and right-of-way acquisition.”

Hanson worried that “if we put a sidewalk up there it’s just going to be an incentive for some parents to let their kids walk who really shouldn’t be at that age.” He recommended that the town “send (the proposal) back to them and say we’re not interested.”

In other business, selectmen approved Code Enforcement Officer Albert Holden’s request that the town’s emergency 911 ordinance be more strictly enforced. Selectmen agreed that Holden may send out postcards informing residents that a fine will be issued to property owners who fail to display their street numbers in accordance with the ordinance.

“It’s the only recourse we have,” Holden said.