LIVERMORE FALLS – Voters will consider accepting a $150,000 grant on Monday to help businesses improve building facades in an attempt to revitalize economic development here.

Business owners will need to match whatever grant amount they request up to $25,000, the maximum allowed. For every dollar given to a business in grant money, the business must contribute $1.

The special town meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 12, at the town office, prior to the selectmen’s meeting.

Voters will also be asked to transfer $30,000 from an unappropriated surplus account, which is about $1 million, to the public works account.

Higher fuel costs and more snowstorms than normal depleted money in the account and more needs to be appropriated so the department can operate through June.

Voters will also be asked to appropriate money from the surplus account to cover $9,017 in overdrafts from the buildings and administration account.

During the selectmen’s meeting, the board is scheduled to consider adopting policies connected to the $150,000 grant, if voters agree to accept it.

Those policies are an equal opportunity policy that prohibits discrimination and a policy requiring that grant projects meet the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. The town already has policies of this nature in place, Town Manager Martin Puckett said, but they need to be adopted specifically for the grant.

The board also needs adopt a resolution pertaining to fair housing, if a grant is given to a business that has a rental unit, he said.

Selectmen will also consider a request from representatives of the Pentecostal church to have Union Street designated as one-way from 7 a.m. to noon on Sundays, Puckett said. There are concerns about parking on both sides of the street, he said.

Puckett said he will also discuss Maine Power Options bids the town will seek that will be received on May 22. He plans to do two bids for heating oil and fuel.

Right now, the per gallon price for oil needs to be below $2.90 a gallon, he said, to fit in the proposed budget. He included some extra for a little leeway.

Last year, selectmen voted to accept a bid at below $2.30 a gallon for oil and that turned out to be a good buy, Puckett said.