LIVERMORE FALLS – After the municipal office building ran out of heating oil, the town manager is seeking bids for both diesel fuel and heating oil.

Manager Martin Puckett said he was watching the market and suggested that selectmen could either stay the course or call for bids.

Puckett said Monday that he factored in $2.29 a gallon for fuel in the budget. While other communities went out to bid earlier, he thought the prices too high.

But he waited too long, he said, and the town ran out of heating oil at the municipal office two weeks ago.

He ordered some oil then to keep the building heated.

The town uses about 17,000 gallons of heating fuel and about 9,000 gallons of diesel fuel annually, Puckett said.

He had drafted a request for proposals for the bidding process two ways: Cost per market over wholesale and guaranteed price, he said.

“Once we get bids if you don’t like it, we don’t have to accept it,” Puckett said.

In other business, selectmen accepted the resignation of Veronica Pillsbury from the Planning Board and appointed Phil Poirier to replace her after accepting Poirier’s resignation from the Budget Committee.

Planning Board member Fran Szostek was appointed to the Budget Committee and will remain on the Planning Board.

In other matters, the next Budget Committee meeting is at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13, at the town office.

Puckett said he was impressed with the energetic group, which not only plans to look at Fire Department options for a new ladder truck but also wants to look at a capital improvement plan.

At the first Budget Committee meeting, Louise Chabot was elected chairwoman and Joyce Drake, secretary. The members will be sworn in the near future.

Puckett also mentioned that the Western Maine Paper and Heritage Museum will show a screening of Hallway Media’s documentary of the area’s papermaking history at 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 13, at Murray Hall on Main Street. The documentary is about 20 minutes long.