LIVERMORE FALLS – Selectmen voted unanimously Monday to ask taxpayers to raise $100,000 at a June referendum to start a capital improvement account.

Budget Committee members will also recommend voters approve the request.

Selectmen and Budget Committee members worked through the final accounts for the proposed 2007-08 spending package that will go before voters for the first time in a secret-ballot style vote at the polls on Tuesday, June 12.

Both panels compromised on several budgets and came out with roughly a $2.3 million budget for town government expenses, which is a little less than the current budget including the $100,000 for capital improvements. Town Manager Martin Puckett said he would review the figures for both boards and come up with a bottom-line on Tuesday and determine where the differences are between the two proposals.

The budget proposals will be discussed during a public information meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 16, at the town office.

The information meeting will follow a special town meeting to ask voters to approve a project consisting of sewer line replacements within town streets, including engineering work and transaction costs. Voters will also be asked to approve $250,000 to cover the cost of the project and to authorize the town treasurer and chairman of the board to issue general obligation securities for the project.

The sewer line replacement would be done in conjunction with the water main replacement the Livermore Falls Water District is having done on town streets including Park, Oak and Maple.

In the budget talks, selectmen and Budget Committee agreed to ask voters to raise and appropriate: $3,000 for material and rental of a lift to put on an asphalt-style paint on roof of the town garage; $2,500 to replace half of the 20 Christmas decorations the town needs; and $5,000 to go with the $7,325 raised through fund-raising and donations to meet the $12,000 required for repairs on the town’s tower clock.

Budget Committee members are also recommending that if employees want income protection insurance that they would need to contribute 50 percent. Income protection insurance is only available if employees are injured off the job, Selectman Bill Demaray said.

Voters will be able to decide between the budget panel’s recommendation and selectmen’s recommendation of funding it 100 percent. The insurance used to be a benefit included in union contracts but it is no longer in the contract, Demaray said. It remains in the employee handbook but can be changed.

Demaray said that he wants to make sure that it can be done and so it should appear in a separate warrant article on the ballot.