LIVERMORE FALLS – Selectmen voted to have interim Town Manager Kristal Flagg check with a Livermore woman to see if she is interested in being a backup to town office staff, if needed.

On Monday, Feb. 9, Tuesday, Feb. 10, and Wednesday, Feb. 11, Flagg will be out of the office to attend all-day National Incident Management Systems training at the fire station.

Another staff member, Dawn Young, is on potential jury duty and that would leave only sewer clerk Sue Sapiel in the office.

Flagg said she tried to get out of the training but was told she would have to attend the next one that came up, and it could be in Boston, Mass.

All department heads, along with command staff, need to attend the training if the town wants to remain eligible for federal grants, Flagg said.

The town does not have someone who can come in to work in the office, she said.

“We’ve always said we need a backup,” she said, but they never went through with getting one.

Flagg said Bonnie Perkins was mentioned as a possibility. She was the former Livermore Town Office backup person.

Selectmen asked Flagg to approach Perkins to see if she is interested and what pay she would want to do it.

In other business, selectmen directed Flagg to look into the $10,500 approved in the current year’s budget for the tennis courts. A Vermont company contacted Flagg and asked when the town wanted the work done, she said.

She asked selectmen if they knew what work was to be done. Selectman Jackie Knight said she vaguely remembered former Town Manager Martin Puckett talking about it last year during budget. She said she believed there was something wrong with the entry gate and the court itself.

“I know it needs some work bad down there,” Flagg said.

Selectman Bill Demaray suggested she check to see what work needs to be done and if the bid is still good.

In another matter, Flagg said the town locked in on diesel fuel at $2.338 per gallon and heating oil at $2.129 per gallon for the fiscal year beginning July 1.

The board also approved advertising for a police officer to replace Cort Hladik, who is leaving to work for a military company, and a dispatcher to replace Megan Gordon, who plans to go to nursing school in Chicago.