LIVERMORE FALLS – A $2.5 million municipal spending plan for fiscal 2008 is ready to go to voters in referendum form on Tuesday, June 12, at the town office.

Selectmen and Budget Committee members will hold a public hearing on the proposal at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 30, at the town office. This is the chance for residents to ask questions on the warrant articles they will consider during the secret ballot.

Selectmen approved the 42-article warrant on Monday night, Town Manager Martin Puckett said. The only change was adding back $3,750 to the income protection account.

Budget Committee members wanted to have employees pay for the additional insurance that covers them when injured on their own time. The benefit is no longer in the wording of the union contract.

However, legal counsel recommended not changing it until the union contract is renegotiated because it can be a negotiable item, Puckett said.

The amount to be raised by taxation if the $2.5 million budget is approved would be $2.36 million.

This year’s town budget is $2.38 million, not including school or county taxes, of which $2.37 million was raised by taxation.

Absentee ballots will be available Friday, May 11.

Selectmen also awarded five tax-acquired properties to the highest bidders, Puckett said.

The house and land at 6 Franklin St. went to Melissa Lovely of Livermore Falls for a bid of $8,600, he said.

A mobile home without land at 250 Fayette Road went to Thomas Cook of Fayette for $800.

Mobile homes only at 17 and 19 Globe St. went to Ronald Wetzell of Livermore Falls for a bid of $1,005 and Melissa Lovely for a bid of $524, respectively, Puckett said.

A half-acre of land at 46 Munsey Ave. was awarded to Jim and Arlene Collins of Livermore Falls for a bid of $750, he said.

In other business, selectmen awarded Wright-Pierce, an engineering firm, the contract for architectural and engineering services for the bike walk path proposed to go along a section of the Androscoggin River. The bid was $18,560. Selectmen had been waiting for the Maine Department of Transportation approval of the firm’s structural plan for the project, Puckett said.