BETHEL – Selectmen on Monday scheduled a special town meeting for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9, in the town office to discuss three money articles.
The first asks voters to authorize creating a loan program from which the town is to lend to certain employees a maximum amount needed to pay the employee share of missed contributions to the Maine State Retirement System, less $5,000, to buy past service.
The loan is to be interest-free for a maximum 10 years, and the maximum to lend is $29,000.
Voters are also asked to accept a grant of an undetermined amount from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Emergency Watershed Protection Program representing 75 percent of project cost, and to accept additional funds from the Riverside Cemetery Association for the 25 percent match.
The funds then need to be appropriated to preserve Riverside Cemetery on North Road by stabilizing the Androscoggin River bank at the burial ground.
The last article asks voters to appropriate $5,000 from revenues received through the Municipal Grant-In-Aid Program of the Maine Department of Conservation and Bureau of Parks and Lands to improve trail approaches to the new pedestrian-snowmobile recreational bridge being built over the Androscoggin River.
In other business, selectmen appointed Cindy Savage to represent Bethel on the SAD 44 Board of Directors.
Selectmen also sided with the Maine Department of Transportation concerning parking along Route 2 in West Bethel near the post office and a church.
“Apparently, the construction of a formal left turn lane (westbound) for the Flat Road has created new options for drivers, and that may be causing mild confusion,” Town Manager Scott Cole wrote in a July 29 memo to selectmen.
Selectmen Chairman Stan Howe said Tuesday afternoon that MDOT would be installing “No Parking” signs along the stretch.
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