SUMNER – A state transportation official will attend the town’s next selectmen’s meeting to discuss problems stemming from recent work on Route 219.

Brian Keezer of the Maine Department of Transportation will attend the Jan. 25 meeting.

At Tuesday’s selectmen’s meeting, Chairman Clifford McNeil explained that the next meeting will address “issues arising about levels of traffic through the town and increased speed.”

McNeil said that the biggest issue was large trucks traveling at high speeds. Speeds past the Hartford-Sumner Elementary School and the speed and noise of emergency vehicles are also a concern.

Road Commissioner James Keach has purchased “no engine brake” signs to be placed along Route 219 at the east and west ends of town to cut down on noise from large trucks. The signs have not yet been put up.

Selectman Thomas Standard said that resident Stephen Peters foresaw problems before work began on Route 219. At that time, Standard said, an MDOT representative said he would return when the work was done to reassign speed limits through the town. This has not been done. Peters, who has attended selectmen’s meetings in the past few months to complain about the speed and noise of traffic through residential areas of town, suggested a call to Keezer.

“Hopefully, he’s going to tell us what we have to do to get the speed limits set at a proper level,” Standard said.

Although the Jan. 25 meeting is not a public hearing. McNeil said that the public is invited to hear the selectmen’s discussion with Keezer.

The following meeting, Feb. 8, will be attended by SAD 39 Superintendent Richard Colpitts, who will discuss the school budget.