LIVERMORE FALLS – Selectmen have hired Paula Coombs of Livermore Falls as the new code enforcement officer, Town Clerk Kristal Flagg said Tuesday.
Coombs will make $10 an hour and have office hours Monday through Friday from 6 to 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 to 7 p.m., Flagg said.
The town has been without a code officer for a few months after Brenda Medcoff resigned.
Selectman Russell Flagg said Tuesday that selectmen made the decision to hire Coombs at their last meeting two weeks ago.
Coombs’ pay will be upgraded for each of four certificates she is expected to earn for the position, said Flagg, who is the town clerk’s husband. Once she receives all of her certificates, her pay will be brought up to where Medcoff’s was when she left, which was $14 an hour, he said.
Selectmen also authorized advertising to replace sewer clerk Faith Nichols, who resigned due to health and personal issues, Kristal Flagg said.
Until someone is hired to replace Nichols, she said, selectmen authorized counter clerk Dawn Nichols to get a $1 an hour increase in pay, which brings her hourly wage up from $11.86 to $12.86.
The town office will also be closed next Tuesday, Nov. 29, then Wednesday, Dec. 7, and every Wednesday thereafter while employees handle extra work due to having no town manager, code officer or sewer clerk. Once a sewer clerk is hired, normal office hours are expected to resume.
The town manager search committee will meet Tuesday, Nov. 29, to interview three candidates for town manager.
Former Manager Alan Gove left the position in late July. The search committee and selectmen interviewed candidates in the first round of applications, but the candidate who was offered the job declined, and a selectmen opted not to offer the job to the second candidate.
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