LISBON — Following a public hearing the town council voted 6-0 to send a $350,000 school general obligation bond to voters at a special referendum election.

The project carries a total price tag of $613,000 and will be used for improvements at the high school — front entrance construction and moving the front office space, replacing walls and windows on the north side of the north wing and replacing and insulating the gymnasium roof.

According to a school department spokesmen, the 10-year bond would not increase the budget because it would be paid from ending modular leases, which has been $25,500 per year, and the remaining cost, $263,000 would come from state fiscal stabilization funds. 

The special town meeting and bond referendum election will be held April 6.

In other council action, it was voted to renew Town Manager Steve Eldridge’s contract through 2012, with no change in salary. 

Councilors accepted the forfeiture of $4,000 in confiscated drug money for the Police Department. 

It was voted to contract with William Van Tuinen to work with assessor Pat Dow updating land valuations.

J. Micheal Huston, Clyde Cavender, Dorthy Fitzgerald and Robert Begin were appointed to the Board of  Assessment Review.

The council will hold a workshop meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the town office to discuss the Androscoggin County Dispatch Consolidation Study.