LIVERMORE FALLS – The town has a Budget Committee.

All that is left is to assign terms to the nine members.

That will be done at the next meeting in October. But how committe members will get the length of years they’ll serve – one, two or three – hasn’t been decided.

Town Manager Martin Puckett said some ideas are to assign terms based on when people signed up on a first-come basis, or to draw names from a hat.

Prior to Monday night’s meeting, six people had signed up with three others volunteering at the meeting, he said.

Those agreeing to serve are Scott Roberts, Joyce Drake, Louise Chabot, Pam Cook, Darren Gile, Nick Rehagen, Phil Poirier, Bernal Lake and Ron Chadwick.

Puckett also said he gave selectmen an update on the solid waste account and the town has enough wages to pay the transfer station attendant, Fred Nadeau, for 35 hours a week for the rest of the fiscal year at $11.11 per hour.

Voters cut the solid waste budget in June and Puckett has been monitoring it and making changes to make the funding for services last longer this year.

Puckett said he removed some items from that budget, such as $3,000 to pay highway crew members when they help out at the station, $2,500 for repairs, which will now come from the Highway Department since the equipment is that department’s, $1,000 to repair the gate to the station, and $5,800 in building improvements.

“A lot of things were removed so that we could continue operating at the same level,” Puckett said.

State planner Hank Tyler attended Monday’s meeting and told selectmen the town’s budget is average for municipal solid waste services, as are figures for recycling and municipal waste generated per person, Puckett said.

Puckett said Tyler didn’t see anything that could be changed easily to stay within the budget without reducing the level of services.

It was refreshing to have someone else say the town was doing a good job, Puckett said.

The board authorized the services to continue as they are, but asked Puckett to continue to monitor the account closely, the town manager said.

Solid waste figures were up in July and August, Puckett said, and he’s hoping they decrease in the coming months.

What he’s seen in the past is that those two months produce a higher volume of solid waste.

“It’s seasonal,” he said.

Adding to costs this year is a $2-a-ton higher tipping fee to get rid of solid waste, he said. The fee jumped from $78.50 to $80.50 this year, he said.