LISBON – Preliminary discussions earlier this year about the possibility of Lisbon and the city of Lewiston combining tax assessing services as a cost-saving measure have apparently been dropped – for now at least.

This came after Lisbon councilors heard from constituents who opposed relocating their town assessing services, saying they wanted to keep a local Town Office open, a spokesman said.

Councilors, at their meeting this week, appointed Gorham resident Warren E. Dow to a new one-year position as assessor.

Dow, a certified Maine assessor, replaces longtime assessor and code enforcement officer Gerry Samson, who resigned on May 22. The assistant code enforcement officer position will become a combination code enforcement officer and building inspector.

Dow has worked in similar positions in Portland, Windham and Gorham. He most recently operated his own appraisal business.

He will work 30 hours a week at a rate of $20 per hour, for a yearly salary of $31,000, a considerable savings for the town. Samson was earning $56,000 a year as an assessor and code enforcement officer.

In other business:

• First readings of three ordinance revisions, shoreland zoning, nonconforming lots and structures, and off-street parking and loading, were accepted.

• After a public hearing, Dick and Jane Waters, doing business as Neighborhood Networking, were granted an itinerant vendor and mass-gathering permit. The Androscoggin Chamber of Commerce and Lisbon Business Association were granted a renewed itinerant vendor and mass-gathering permit for Moxie Days.

• Also renewed were a catering privileges off-premises permit for the Slovak Catholic Association and a liquor license for Mike Goslin, doing business as Good Time Lanes.

• Louis Levesque was appointed sealer of weights and measures and Barbara Agathos to a one-year alternate position on the Conservation Commission.

• Town Manager Steve Eldridge reported that Crooker Construction will begin work on the Ferry Road within two weeks. Eldridge also commended Robin and Mark Tupper for their work on the children’s area at the library, which has increased patronage. He also thanked Recreation Director Mark Stevens for his work organizing and accompanying a senior citizens’ trip on the Downeaster to Boston, where they visited Faneuil Hall and the aquarium.