LIVERMORE – The select board has sent a proposed $989,388 spending plan for 2009-10 to the Budget Committee for review. It’s 3.6 percent less than this year’s budget of $1.02 million.

That panel will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, at the town office to begin budget deliberations.

The budget amount factors in departmental revenues and money that will be carried over from this year’s budget to next year, Board Administrative Assistant Kurt Schaub said.

“The things we’re concerned with on the revenue side is the governor’s proposal to reduce revenue sharing,” he said.

Revenue sharing is a percent of tax revenue collected at the state level and sent on to municipalities, he said.

The governor’s proposal is to reduce that rate on top of poor economic conditions, he said.

Under Livermore’s projections, he said, the town would receive $167,459 but under the governor’s proposal that number would drop to $145,419, a $22,040 loss.

In addition, he said there is a proposal to reduce excise tax. Over a 12-month period that would mean the town would lose $120,000, Schaub said.

The goal of the town’s budget this year was to reduce the amount that had to be raised by taxes and the way it is going, it looks like it will be accomplished, he said.

As far as real estate and personal property tax collections, they are the same as they were last year.

Eighty-eight percent of the tax commitment has been collected, he said.

In other business, a committee is being put together to get a new transfer station building designed and built.

A fire destroyed a combined office-garage building and a shed on April 3.

The town’s insurance adjuster has said the cause of the fire is undetermined, Schaub said.

Fire Chief Don Castonguay said previously he believed the fire could have started by wood stove ashes put in a Dumpster.

The committee will be made up of transfer station and maintenance staff, Code Officer Richard Marble, Solid Waste Board Chairman Ashley O’Brien, Selectperson Tom Berry, Solid Waste Board Chairman Ashley O’Brien and a resident.