LIVERMORE — Selectpersons voted Monday to appoint Jean Tardif, a lifelong resident, as administrative clerk at an hourly rate of $11, Town Administrative Assistant Kurt Schaub said Tuesday.

Tardif has been a fill-in employee at the town office in the position, he said.

Former Clerk Ann Gile, who is struggling with cancer, resigned from the position in May.

Tardif has experience in financial transactions, customer service skills and is knowledgeable about most of the residents in town, he said.

The Board of Selectmen also agreed to set up a committee to develop a plan to stop erosion of soil from  town-owned property from going into Brettuns Pond.

The Brettuns Pond Association brought the issue to the board’s attention, Schaub said. The land, located to the right of the public beach area, has a number of pine trees that have grown up through the years. The pine needles have killed off the ground-cover plant growth that holds the soil in place.

“We are looking for a couple of volunteers to work on a committee with the Brettuns Pond Association to develop a project to address this situation,” Schaub said.

A grant will be applied for to do the work plan, he said.

In another matter, Fire Chief Donald Castonguay discussed the Fire Department’s plan to buy a 1995 International Model 4700 to be used as a squad truck for $10,500. The truck will be used to carry the department’s equipment that is not routinely needed on a regular fire truck, and will save valuable time in an emergency by having the remaining gear already stored on board, Schaub said.

Currently, for example, if the rescue boat is needed, they send somebody back to the station to load it into their personal pickup for transporting to the site of the emergency, he said.

The truck was retired in February from the Miami, Fla., Fire Department, he said. It has a diesel engine, and the “box” contains numerous storage compartments and ample interior space for bulky items, such as the rescue boat.

The odometer shows 115,000 miles.

About $4,000 of the purchase price will be drawn from the department’s fund-raising account, and the balance will come from their 2011 equipment budget.

Two firefighters will fly down to Texas, where the truck is located, to drive the truck home.

The cost for lodging, fuel and the plane trip, among other items, will be between $1,500 to $1,800. The cost to ship the truck to Livermore was about $3,000, Schaub said.

Schaub said the town will be hiring a contractor with an excavator for a month to assist the town with doing the remainder of drainage work on the Norlands Road. The town’s crew would do the trucking and flagging and the contractor and his excavator would work on drainage.

Town officials believe by not contracting out the work, the town will save enough money to put a layer of pavement on the entire road from Route 108 north to Gibbs Mill.

Schaub said he is currently talking to local contractors to see if they are interested. Any contractor would have to meet the town’s requirements including insurance.

Schaub also commended transfer station staff, Juanita Jordan-Bryant, Randy Tirrell, and Mark Lovering, for their resourcefulness to handle recyclables during a three-week period when Oxford Recycling’s truck was out of commission.

“They used every inch of available space to store and keep dry all the material that came in,” Schaub said.

In another matter, O’Donnell and Associates, the town’s assessing agent, will give a presentation on town’s valuation update during the select board’s meeting at 7 p.m., Monday, Aug. 2, at the town office.

He reports they will have a presentation during the Aug. 2 meeting. Property owners will receive notices in August about their new valuations. The new valuation will be included in tax bills when they go out in September.

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