LIVERMORE FALLS – Selectmen voted Monday to close the town office Tuesday, Oct. 25, so computers can be upgraded from a disk operating system to a Windows system.
Voters approved the upgrade in June.
The company required that the office be shut down one day to do the work and then will work with town employees the following day, Wednesday, Oct. 26, as they conduct town business on the new system.
Selectmen also agreed Monday to put a tax-acquired property on Hillcrest Road out to bid, with a clause that gives them the right to refuse any or all bids.
The three-bedroom home with two lots of about an acre total was last valued by the tax assessor at $130,000. The house has been vacant for some time.
The taxes owed on the property when the town acquired it were between $13,000 and $14,000 and the sewer bill was $864.
On a second parcel, selectmen agreed to offer a 50- by 200-foot lot on Spruce Street to abutters to see if they want to buy it. The town valued the land at $6,200.
The board also approved resident Geneva Hodgkins’ request to have the flagpole at Union Park modified. Hodgkins told selectmen that Tim DeMillo and Mary Howes, owners of Howies Welding of Jay, are willing to donate the work and material to shorten the flagpole and add a yardarm so the Maine state flag and the prisoner of war/missing in action flags can be flown as well as the U.S. flag.
Hodgkins has adopted Union Park through the town’s adopt-a-spot program.
In other business, selectmen approved tax abatements for several residents including several that didn’t have the homestead exemption or a veterans exemption carry through onto their tax bills.
Selectmen also voted to write off $931.71 in property taxes from the years 1993, 1994 and 1995 that the auditor deemed uncollectible. Of that amount, $722.86 was for 1993, $157.70 was for 1994 and $51.15 was for 1995.
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