KINGFIELD – Efforts to reach a compromise on the noise levels created by the Pit Stop Go-Kart track are a “work in progress,” Greg Davis, Kingfield’s administrative assistant, said Thursday.

Following a “positive” meeting last week of representatives for the neighborhood and landowners, the town’s code enforcement officer, Davis, a selectman and track owner Richard Jordan, another meeting has been scheduled for Monday, April 28, Davis said.

From the last meeting, several ideas to help curb noise were floated, Wade Browne, Pit Stop Association president, said Thursday. Suggestions included planting trees, adding a cloth type noise-dampening material on the fence surrounding the track, and moving a small building away from the track to stop any possible echoing of noise, he said. The club may implement some of these ideas as soon as it can, he said.

The club is expected to meet Saturday, Davis said, and Jordan will bring its ideas back to the meeting Monday, when the town hopes both sides can work to find solutions.

Questions about whether the club was complying with the consent agreement with the town have been raised over the last few months. Browne said the club has followed the guidelines given by the planning and appeals boards and has not violated its consent agreement.

“The Pit Stop is basically in compliance,” Davis said, adding that there are still questions of membership and whether the track is being operated as a commercial entity. “But the town is still trying to facilitate addressing the bottom line, sound complaints,” Davis said.

In years past, the club has done several things to try to be a good neighbor, Browne said.

“Many different mufflers were used several times in an effort to help the noise issue, dropping our permitted level of noise on our own accord. Making all our racers comply with a 90-decibel level, no questions asked. Which doesn’t sound like much, but is a huge drop in the world of noise levels,” Browne wrote in a statement concerning the Pit Stop Go-Kart track.

There are different styles of go-karts, some look like race cars, he said, but they all run on an 11-horsepower Honda motor similar to ones in a riding lawnmowers.

The club usually races on Saturdays with four competitions, one for each of four categories, held throughout the day. Qualifying races are held and sometimes races can be doubled up in case of rain, he said. Categories include a kids class, he added.

The quarter mile track, located on Tufts Pond Road, operates every other weekend from May to October, and the club operates similar to snowmobile or ATV clubs, he said.

“The club does care about our neighbors,” Browne said. “We want to be good neighbors and work together to make the go-kart track what it was intended for, a place for families to have fun.”

Browne felt the club had been portrayed in the media as the “bad kids,” during the last few months for not wanting to comply with the consent agreement but now feels things are moving in the right direction.

“That’s our goal … to try to be neighborly,” he said.