LIVERMORE FALLS – Voters have 48 articles to consider Wednesday. These include a proposed $2.16 million municipal budget, a road maintenance discontinuance and ordinances dealing with adult businesses, building notifications and building lot standards.
Prior to Wednesday’s town meeting at 7 p.m. in Murray Hall, residents will vote on officials for school and municipal offices and two nonbinding items.
The polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday in the fire station.
In the straw votes, residents are being asked:
• If they want to have emergency dispatch services dispatched by Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department or to keep the service with the Livermore Falls Police Department.
• If they want to pursue switching from Androscoggin County to Franklin County.
On Wednesday, voters will be asked to re-enact an adult-only business ordinance that voters approved in November. Town Manager Alan Gove said Thursday that the town’s attorney recommended voting again on the ordinance that regulates adult-only businesses because the timetable in the referendum vote process might not hold up if disputed in court.
If voters don’t re-enact the ordinance, the town would still have the existing ordinance, Gove said.
Voters have several decisions to make on spending for 2005-06, including whether to raise $28,000 to match a $112,000 state grant for a $220,000 bike and walk paths project.
Voters raised funds last year to match state funds for the first phase of the proposed multi-surfaced and multi-lane path.
It would run from Shuy Corner at Route 17 along Foundry Road behind the municipal building and along the gazebo park adjacent to the Androscoggin River.
Selectmen’s $2.16 million spending proposal would be a $120,460 increase over the existing budget.
A four-member Budget Committee reviewed expenses and recommended a $2.19 million budget, $30,000 more than the selectmen’s.
The two groups agreed on the spending proposed in most articles, except for capital improvements and legal account. The Budget Committee recommends $95,400 for capital improvements, and the selectmen recommend $70,400.
The difference is $25,000 more for roads.
Selectmen also are proposing $10,000 for legal expenses, while the Budget Committee recommends $15,000.
Selectmen are recommending a “yes” vote on a proposed $133,000 emergency dispatch service budget, a $5,258 increase over the existing budget.
The budget committee did not give a recommendation on this item since the committee split 2-2.
Voters also have three ordinances to consider:
• A building notification ordinance, which was revamped after being rejected last year. The ordinance would require people to file a building notification for any new building 200-square-feet or larger, any addition of 200-square-feet or larger and the relocation of an existing residential or commercial structure to a different parcel of land.
• An amendment to the building lots standards ordinance, which would repeal a section of the ordinance that grandfathers lots-of-record before June 11, 1997, allowing a lot to be built on regardless of size as long as the lot complies with town and state statutes.
• Voters will also consider discontinuing Pasture Lane off Route 133 near the Wayne line for town maintenance.
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