JAY – Selectmen will consider a request Monday from Town Manager Ruth Marden that would save the town $2,400 to $2,500 in fiscal 2010.

The board will also hear from a resident, Bill Calden, on access to Parker Pond. Calden, who was unavailable for comment Thursday, owns property at the pond. There is no public access to the pond off East Jay Road, unless written permission is granted by landowners.

The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m., March 30, at the town office with a public hearing on proposed amendments to the general assistance ordinance.

Marden has asked the Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios law firm to draw up a new contract for fiscal 2010 that would eliminate a 3 percent raise she was scheduled to get effective July 1, the start of the fiscal year, and to eliminate a clothing allowance.

With the economy the way it is, Marden said, she felt it was the right thing to do.

In future contracts, she plans to eliminate her clothing allowance of about $500 per year, she said.

Marden’s contract has one year left in the three-year pact. The contract the law firm is drawing up will cover that year, if selectmen approve.

The overall savings will include the taxes that town would have paid on the raise. Her yearly salary is about $60,800, she said, and 3 percent of that would have been in excess of $1,800.

In another matter, the board will hear from Wright-Pierce engineering firm about a proposal for contract services to cost $24,100 for design and other work related to the Route 4 sewer upgrade from Church Street to Pineau Street. The project is to be done in conjunction with the Maine Department of Transportation, Livermore Falls Sewer Department and Livermore Falls Water District. The entire project is 1.1 miles and runs from Bridge Street in Livermore Falls to Pineau Street in Jay.

The Road Committee will also make recommendations on work to done in fiscal 2010.