LIVERMORE – The town office will close at noon Thursday to allow staff members to attend services for longtime resident Billie Gammon, who died Sunday.

Gammon, the mother-in-law of Selectperson John Wakefield, founded the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center in Livermore in the 1970s. A memorial service for her is scheduled at 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, at the North Livermore Baptist Church.

The town office also will be closed Monday, Jan. 19, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, select board administrative assistant Kurt Schaub said.

In other business at Monday’s meeting, Schaub said, the select board accepted the resignation of Irma Bowles from the Board of Appeals and appointed Peggy Dwyer to that board.

Schaub said also told the board that the town has received an additional $5,400 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to compensate for damages during the severe Patriot’s Day storm in April 2007.

However, the town is still waiting to receive the state’s match of $13,000 from Maine Emergency Management Agency for the $87,000 in damage done during that storm, Schaub said. The governor’s proposed supplementary budget includes funds to reimburse towns owed money for storm damages, Schaub said.

In another matter, Schaub said, the Board of Appeals is scheduled to a hold a public hearing at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, at the town office to accept public comment and consider a variance application from Leroy Hilliard to place a mobile home within the 25-foot road and side setbacks outlined in the town’s building ordinance.

Hilliard had appealed the code officer’s issuance of a violation of the required setbacks for a mobile home on River Road. It was placed 10 feet too close to the right of way and 5 feet too close to an abutting property, Schaub said.

After review by the Board of Appeals, Hilliard decided to go for a variance to keep the trailer where it is, he said. There are provisions that that trailer may be put on property for the elderly or a caregiver, he said. There is a medical condition in the family that would fall under this provision, Schaub said.

There is only one place on the lot that the trailer could go and that is where the septic system for the main residence is, Schaub said.

The board will consider the variance with the provision that the trailer be allowed to stay for the duration of the need, he said.