PERU – Selectmen got their first look at the 2009 preliminary state valuation Monday night, prompting Jim Pulsifer to announce, “We need a complete town revaluation.”

The $130,750,000 figure is $21 million more than in 2007.

Homes are being valued at 76 percent of actual selling prices, on average, costing the town state revenue for being less than 90 percent.

“This is a direct result of property on the lake going for such high prices,” Pulsifer said in reference to Worthley Pond buildings.” This will also affect what we pay for schools as that cost is based on the town’s valuation,” he said.

The board asked its secretary, Kathy Hussey, to ask a representative from Maine Revenue Service to attend a meeting to discuss the preliminary figures. This will be done in September.

Road foreman Rick Vaughn presented a long list of proposed projects for the next few weeks as weather allows. The list included shoulder work, cleaning the wooden bridges of sand and salt, cutting brush, grading dirt roads, doing truck repairs and getting the trucks cleaned up after winter storms.

The board accepted the revised personnel policy even though Selectman Laurieann Milligan saw some areas she said she would like to see addressed such as a policy on alcohol and drugs while working.

The board added a section to its personnel policy to say that an employee who leaves prior to year’s end and has used all of his or her vacation time will have the vacation time prorated over the year and the employee will reimburse the town. If the employee leaves with vacation time due they will be paid for time not used.

A section on resignations was amended to say an employee will give the town two weeks notice and his/her final paycheck will not be released until all obligations to the town are met.