PARIS — Selectmen are set to sit down with plaintiffs suing the town over upkeep on their road.

The town will enter a nonbinding mediation session with plaintiffs in the Town Farm Road lawsuit next Tuesday at Western Maine Community College on Route 26, Town Manager Phil Tarr said.

Residents of Town Farm Road and Town Farm Estates want the town to take ownership and responsibility for the road, which the town voted to abandon in 1967.

The suit also asks for about $16,000 to pay for repairs to get the road up to town standards.

In 2004, town meeting voters approved an item to accept the road as a town road once certain repairs were completed, including replacing culverts, adding steel railings and reducing a curve.

The suit alleges those repairs were completed at a cost of $16,000, not including labor by residents. In 2005, and later in 2009, selectmen voted not to take over Town Farm Road.

According to the suit, the plaintiffs “acted in their detriment based on representations made by the agents of the Town as well as the legislative body of the Town.”

Oxford County Superior Court ordered the town and the residents of Town Farm Road and Town Farm Estates to come to an agreement by Aug. 16.

Tarr and most members of the board are expected to attend the mediation. Selectman Ted Kurtz has agreed to recuse himself from the case, because his law firm advised the town on the matter in 2005.

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