LIVERMORE FALLS – Selectmen scheduled another special town meeting for April 21 for voters to consider having the town buy a snowmobile for Jug Hill Snowmobile Club.

There was no account specified on the warrant Monday night to take the money from.

Voters initially agreed to buy a 2009 Ski-Doo for $8,037 for the club on Monday, but after they agreed to adjourn, someone asked Moderator Darryl Brown why there wasn’t any discussion.

Brown said it was his error and asked the vote to adjourn be rescinded, which was done, and then asked that the vote to buy the machine be rescinded for discussion to take place.

The cost of the machine on the warrant was amended down $500 to $8,037 because club President Tim Fournier said someone put $500 down on the machine to hold it.

The club plans to reimburse the town through excise taxes on snowmobile registrations that are returned to the town each year. Voters usually approve returning those funds to the club to help defray costs of grooming the town trails.

Fournier said someone agreed to pay off the machine, if it is not paid off within 30 months.

Nick Rehagen asked if there was a written guarantee that the machine would be paid off in that time frame.

Fournier said he could guarantee it but didn’t have anything in writing. He also said that the club has applied for three grants and expects to get at least $5,000 from them. Fournier also said that the town bought a snowmobile for the club in 1996 and that was repaid in half of the time.

Interim Town Manager Kristal Flagg said the town receives between $1,000 and $1,500 back from the state for snowmobile excise taxes. Instead of that money going to the club, the town would keep it until the machine is paid off.

Ron Chadwick asked where the money would come from. Flagg said surplus funds, but she realized there was an oversight and there was no provision to transfer the money from that account to the general fund to buy the machine.

Fournier said that having the town buy the snowmobile would save the club $537 in sales taxes and another $700 in interest on a loan.

Chadwick said that nonprofit snowmobile clubs do not have to pay sales taxes.

Fournier said after the meeting that it would be a private citizen who would have to take out the loan on the machine because the club doesn’t have the collateral and the bank won’t use the machine as collateral.

Brown said there was no reason on going any further to vote on buying the machine because there is no way listed to pay for it.

“When monies are voted to be expended, it has to be posted and identified where those funds come from,” Brown said.

The next special town meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 21, at the town office to vote on buying the snowmobile and transferring the money from surplus.

Voters Monday did transfer $25,000 from surplus to the general fund to pay costs related to the demolition and removal of a town-owned dangerous building at 90 Main St. They also voted to ratify $6,705 in overdrafts from fiscal 2008.