LIVERMORE – Livermore selectpersons Monday night approved a bid on a septic system and accepted the revised Strickland Ferry Road Drainage Project proposal and the Highway Capital Improvement budget for 2006-07.
The state has approved a septic design for a home on Federal Road, all the paperwork has been signed and Doug Gordon will do the work based on the bid he submitted. The board originally thought that there would be enough grant money for two septic systems for residents, but there was only enough funds for one.
Highway foreman Moe Laverdiere advised the board that there was a huge pothole on River Road that needed immediate attention.
“When I found the pothole, I stuck a shovel in it and could reach way underneath,” Laverdiere said. “The water is completely undermining the road.”
The board allocated $4,000 to replace two culverts. Work is scheduled to begin Thursday.
“We may have to close the road for the day from Golf Course Road to Strickland Ferry Road,” Selectman Tom Berry said. The road will only be open to the people who live there.
Laverdiere said there have also been problems with vandalism.
“Someone is stealing signs and cones, and are spinning up new pavement on the Gordon Road,” he said. “We patch the road, put up cones, go to lunch, and the cones are gone when we get back.”
In other business, the board adopted the new estimate given by C.H. Stevenson to do the drainage work on the Strickland Ferry Road, which is estimated at $186,000. This amount was included in the Highway Capital Improvement budget for 2006-07 and was less than the original proposal.
While the newer proposal removes the cost for grinding a mile of road, it includes improvement to three locations instead of two and adds about 300 feet of road improvement. It also removes all paving costs.
“Let’s get the drainage done rather than worry about paving for now,” Administrative Assistant Kurt Schaub said. Other road work that the town anticipates is to repair River Road, consisting of drainage and culvert replacement, and installing a new cross-culvert on Goding Road to divert water.
The board met in executive session to discuss a court case involving a junkyard on Maple Lane and a possible consent agreement. Selectmen approved the agreement that requires the residents to pay a fine of $500. If that fine is not paid, an additional $250 per day will be added. Future violations will bring a $100 per day fine.
The town will be looking into acquiring a piece of property adjacent to the transfer station. The town has a right of way across the property and the landowner has decided to sell. While the town would have the right of way, it was decided that it may be beneficial to acquire the property for a possible salt shed or town garage.
“Right now, when the plows are on the trucks in the garage, you can’t get the doors shut,” Schaub said. Now that the town has a comprehensive planning grant, Schaub said that it should be looking to the future and what improvements could be made. The board authorized Schaub to get an appraisal of the property.
Selectpersons will meet at 7 p.m. July 31 and the Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments Comprehensive Planning Meeting with selectpersons and Planning Board will meet at 6 p.m. Aug. 15. All meetings will take place at the Town Office.
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