LIVERMORE FALLS – Selectmen voted Monday to give six nonunion employees a 4 percent raise effective July 1. The increase is the same amount that union employees will get this year.

The only nonunion employee not getting the 4 percent increase is Town Manager Martin Puckett. Instead, selectmen had agreed when they approved his contract to paying 6.5 percent to Puckett’s Maine State Retirement Fund.

The board also voted 4-1, with Selectman Bill Demaray opposed, to enter into an agreement with Sewer Department Superintendent Kent Mitchell that would let him retire under the Maine State Retirement Fund and be rehired as a new employee in the same position.

Mitchell had asked selectmen previously if they would agree to that. It is expected to save the town money and let Mitchell save money toward his retirement. Once he retires from the town’s employ, Mitchell said, he will be responsible to pay all of his health insurance.

The town will no longer contribute to Mitchell’s retirement and if he takes vacations, he’ll only get the two weeks a new employee gets, and he’ll be unpaid for the other weeks he plans to take.

The agreement is good to Dec. 31, 2010, but if Mitchell, 61, decides he wants to continue past the age of 64, a new agreement will be negotiated.

Mitchell also informed selectmen that there is a plugged sewer line that is leaking raw sewage from Franklin Street under the railroad track.

“The track is full of raw sewage,” Mitchell said.

The leak was discovered June 9 and the railroad company has still not given permission for a new pipe to be pulled under the track by Ted Berry Co. He is hoping that permission will come Tuesday and the pipe can be fixed by Friday. He already has permission from Wausau Paper officials and a landowner on Franklin Street to do the pipe pull, Mitchell said.

There is no danger at this time of the sewage seeping into the Androscoggin River, he said.

Selectmen voted to have the town crew do some repairs on a wall in front of the town office that was hit by a vehicle. One quote to do the work came in at $5,000 and the town workers could do it for $500 to replace bricks, Puckett said. The outside quote included recasting the bricks which are really not bricks but blocks, he said.

In another building matter, a quote to fix an interior wall at the fire station has come in at $5,700 with another quote expected.

After a closer look at the wall damaged when a firetruck was backed into it by accident, it was determined the wall is still structurally sound, Fire Chief Marvin Parker said.

Initially, it was thought there was structural damage to the wall and that if had to be removed, then maybe more space could be gained.

Parker said there are electrical panels, air bottles and some plumbing on the other side of the wall and only 8 inches could be gained.

It’s a matter of pushing back the wall and replacing 12 blocks and seals, Parker said.

Selectmen tabled action on repairs until they could view the damage themselves.

“Everyone is welcome to come and look and give a suggestion,” Parker said.