LIVERMORE – The select board received an update on several items this week, including fuel and a lawsuit filed against the town.

The Highway Department has used $14,338 of its $21,000 fuel budget, administrative assistant Kurt Schaub said Wednesday.

With about two-thirds of the budget already spent and several months left in the fiscal year, Schaub said, there is no question in anyone’s mind that line will be exceeded.

“But overall, we’ll have to wait and see” if that could be absorbed from other lines in the Highway Department budget or if that particular budget goes over, he said.

The board was also notified Tuesday that 30-day foreclosure notices were being sent out Wednesday to 23 property owners, Schaub said.

The notices are for the 2006 tax year. Roughly is $13,500 due.

The time frame for the Androscoggin County Superior Court in Auburn to hear the town’s dismissal request of a lawsuit filed by resident Peter Drown Jr. pertaining to the town’s dangerous dog ordinance has been extended, Schaub said.

Drown filed the suit against the town claiming a procedural error was made and the town didn’t follow the proper posting procedures for a special town meeting when voters adopted the ordinance last year.

The ordinance mirrors state law but is more stringent in a few areas.

“The ordinance is still in full force and effect,” Schaub said and is not stayed by the lawsuit.

Schaub also said he told board members that the town still awaits grant funds and that some short-term borrowing needs to be done to supplement the budget until those funds arrive.