JAY – Selectmen agreed Monday to have Selectman Warren Bryant serve on the school Regional Planning Committee with Chairman Bill Harlow as a replacement in case Bryant is unable to attend.

Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls are studying creating a school partnership to educate children in those towns under the state’s new reorganization law.

Selectmen decided to have Harlow serve as a backup on the committee because Bryant is with his wife Lisa, the town’s financial director, in Kansas, where their son was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident, Harlow said.

Selectmen also listed Lisa Bryant as representative for the town on the Regional Planning Committee’s finance subcommittee.

While Lisa Bryant is out of town, Harlow asked to see if either Jay assistant finance director Jill Gingras or retired financial director Linda Brundage, who has been called in to help until Bryant gets back, could serve in her place on the finance subcommittee.

Town Manager Ruth Marden, who is on medical leave following hip-replacement surgery on Sept. 11, would like to serve on the governance committee, Harlow said.

He spoke to Marden and she is doing fine and is moving about using a cane, Harlow said.

Highway foreman John Johnson is serving on the building and grounds subcommittee and they have already had one meeting and may have one or two this week to make the state’s timeline to submit a consolidated school plan, which is Dec. 1.

Representatives from all three towns will serve on the Regional Planning Committee under the guidance of facilitator Bill Cumming.

In other business, selectmen voted to grant Thomas and Susan Dolan a $305 sewer abatement covering three years, 2005 to 2008. The state is taking the Dolans’ property at 76 Main St., which consists of .24 acres of land and a house, as part of the proposed Route 4 reconstruction project from Bridge Street in Livermore Falls to Pineau Street in Jay.