LIVERMORE FALLS – Selectmen announced Monday that 22 applications were received from candidates seeking the town manager position vacated by Alan Gove last month.
Selectmen appointed Scott Roberts and Phil Poirier as community members on a town manager search committee.
Five residents had volunteered to serve on the committee and selectmen went into a brief executive session before making a decision. Others volunteering were Joyce Drake, Clayton Putnam and Denise Rodzen.
The search committee will also consist of Selectmen Ken Jacques and Julie Deschesne, department heads and a town office representative.
The board also accepted the resignation of Code Enforcement Officer Brenda Medcoff. Her last day is Aug. 15.
In other business, selectmen voted to:
• accept a $17,000 bid from Wright-Pierce of Topsham for design and engineering work to build about 1 mile of an 8-foot to 10-foot wide bike/walk path from Bridge Street along the Androscoggin River to the end of Foundry Road.
• accepted Rampart Bituminous LLC’s bid of $27,670 to pave sections of Cedar, Pomeroy Hill, Baldwin, and Strickland Loop streets. Federal Emergency Management Agency will pay $13,875 of storm damage cost. The company will also be asked to use any leftover money to pave a section of Moose Hill Road. A bid from Bruce Manzer Inc. of Phillips was $31,965.
• refused to accept a roofing bid from Gladu Roofing of Lewiston, the only bidder on replacing the roof on the municipal building and fixing some windows, due to it being over the $29,000 voters approved in June. Selectmen opted to rebid the project with a more lenient completion date of June 30, 2006, to get the project done. The project was put out to bid late and most contractors were booked and couldn’t get the job done before the September deadline, selectmen said.
• accepted Mark Chretien’s bid of $2,200 to replace the overhang on fire station that was struck by a tractor-trailer truck. Moose Hill Builders also submitted a bid of $1,200 to repair the overhang, including the damaged shingles, but the former town manager had already promised the bid to Chretien, Jacques said. The tractor-trailer truck’s owner paid the town $2,200 for the job without using insurance money. Bernal Lake of Moose Hill Builders said if the job was already promised to Chretien that he didn’t object to it going to Chretien. The town will not cash the truck company’s check until they find out if the company is also paying to fix light that also was broken.
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