CARRABASSETT VALLEY – The Anti-Gravity Center will be the site for a special town meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12.

The meeting site has been changed, Town Manager David Cota said, due to the start of renovations at the Outdoor Center.

Selectmen have called for the meeting to ask the town to borrow an additional $130,000 to complete the Outdoor Center renovations and other items.

The board signed a contract at the meeting Tuesday with Linwood Doble Inc. of Kingfield for $1,080,700, the amount available for construction from the original borrowing of $1,193,800 approved at the March town meeting for the project. The $113,100 difference was used for architectural and engineering fees and the cost of a new well, Cota said.

Doble, the low bidder on the project, promised to have the renovations completed by Christmas if the board cut the skating rink and 30 parking spaces, he said.

The project includes renovations of the 3,000-square-foot building that opened in 1976 plus adding another 3,000 square feet.

After reviewing bids last week, the board voted to move forward but to seek potential savings after the lowest bid came in at more than the amount left after paying engineer’s and architect’s fees. The Outdoor Center Improvement Project Oversight Committee negotiated a cost savings of $27,700 with the contractor from his original bid, Cota said.

The requested sum of $130,000, Cota said, includes $50,000 for a contingency fund, $55,000 for the new skating rink, $7,000 for the parking spaces and $18,000 for additional improvements.

The skating rink amount includes excavation, fill and enlarging the rink, Cota said, and the amount for parking spaces reinstates the 30 cut from the project.

A second article on the skating rink asks the town to spend up to $50,000 from undesignated surplus to complete the rink. This funding will only be needed, he said, if a grant proposal is not approved. The money will pay for fiberglass dasher boards.

A third article on the warrant covers expenses for the new transportation system from mid-November to Dec. 31, Cota said. The article asks the town to spend $25,281 in 2007 or approximately one quarter of the $101,123 needed for the system that operates from November to April, he said.

Previously, he said, the town has paid for the transportation service somewhat in arrears by raising the amount at the March town meeting for the service provided from the previous November to April.

With the new service, the Carrabassett “Sugarloaf Express” provided by Western Maine Transportation Inc., the town may need to be prepared to pay more upfront for the November-December service, he said.

The town will also be asked to transfer $8,011.12 in revenues received from refinancing bonds for the golf course improvement project to the golf course improvement account and to expend these funds for this project.