MECHANIC FALLS — Town Manager John Hawley told council members Monday that trustees of the Mechanic Falls Library will decide this week whether to accept an offer to move the library’s operations to the third floor of the Municipal Building on Lewiston Street.

“Options for the library are slim,” Hawley said.

The Mechanic Falls Library is presently located downtown in an old brick building next to the bridge over the Little Androscoggin River. The building does not meet requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and bringing it into compliance is a virtual impossibility, Hawley said, due to both the expense involved and the building’s spacial limitations.

Council member Nancy Richard said that the Municipal Building would be an ideal location for the library.

“There’s plenty of parking available, there’s an elevator and there are sidewalks,” Richard said.

The third floor of the Municipal Building is currently occupied by RSU 16’s Adult Education Program, but Hawley said he has already spoken to people in the Adult Ed Program, as well as school Superintendent Dennis Duquette, with a proposal for Adult Education to move into the Head Start building that became available recently when Androscoggin Head Start pulled out of Mechanic Falls.

“They were enthusiastic — they would really like to go in there. It has a kitchen. They can expand the building. And we can offer them some stability. They’ve been going with three-year leases; we can offer them a 20-year deal,”Hawley said.

The council voted to authorize Hawley to take steps necessary for Adult Education’s move to the former Head Start building, pending action this week by library trustees.

Hawley also reported on his meeting with officials from Black Bear Entertainment, where he began discussions with them regarding impacts the casino will have on Mechanic Falls.

The council also took under advisement a request from residents of Riverside Drive, who approached the council to have the town plow their road.

Rhonda Reid, a resident of Riverside Drive for the past 22 years, presented councilors with a petition signed by every resident of the road. It asks for plowing and nothing more.

Riverside Drive, which is a little short of a half-mile long, is not a town-accepted road.

Hawley explained that the the developer of the original subdivision went bankrupt and left a road that had not been built to town specifications.

Council agreed to respond to the petition at its February meeting. Meanwhile, it requested that Hawley and Scott Penney from the highway department check out the road.

Council also approved a program for conducting background checks on people who have been offered employment by the town or appointment to town committees.

The council will meet with Sanitary District Trustees at the town office on Thursday at 7 p.m. to discuss the expenses being charged to the town by the district.