LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen recently awarded the contract for construction of a steel roof over the trash and recyclable compactors to a Livermore company, Town Manager Kristal Flagg said Tuesday.

The town received five bids for the project, ranging from $54,800 from Chretien Construction of Livermore to $81,000 from Dimatteo Construction Management in South Portland. Only $100 separated the two lowest bids, she said.

Integrated Construction Services of Bangor bid $54,900 on the project.

Selectmen rejected bids in April after both exceeded $58,000. The town did not have enough money to do the project.

Instead, the board and voters agreed to carry $34,600 from the landfill’s 2010-11 budget and to possibly ask voters to transfer money from a capital improvement account to pay for the project.

However, Flagg said Tuesday she will ask selectmen at the Monday, Sept. 19, meeting if they want to use money from landfill revenues to cover the remaining cost of the roof. That way a special town meeting would not be needed, she said.

The town just received a check for $17,000 from transactions that include selling the metal pile, she said. That would leave only about $3,200 still to be covered, she said. She plans to have options for the remaining money when she addresses the board.

The Sept. 19 meeting will begin with an executive session on an employee grievance hearing at 6 p.m at the town office. She expects the session to run about an hour with the regular board meeting following. The hearing was previously postponed when the employee could not attend.

In another bid process, Flagg said selectmen directed her to check references on the low bid received for pointing and sealing on the exterior of the municipal building.

Six bids were received, ranging from $6,500 from Main Waterproofing Co. of Norridgewock to $69,886 from Contracting Specialists Inc. of Attleboro, Mass.

Flagg said she plans to present her findings to the board at Monday’s meeting. The town is also exploring other options for the exterior of the building, including vinyl siding, she said.

The board also accepted a recapture settlement for $1,231.25 from Norm Paradis, an owner of the Chuck Wagon Restaurant. His was among several downtown businesses awarded facade grants to fix up the front of their buildings. Each business had to match whatever they received in a Community Block Development Grant dollar-for-dollar.

Business owners signed a recapture agreement to repay the grant money if they sold their building within three years.

Paradis sold a portion of his building where 25 percent of the grant was used for improving the exterior facing Main Street. The rest of the money was used on the restaurant section of the building, Flagg said, which Paradis still owns.

Selectmen have asked Flagg to research the criteria for the grant so the  returned funds could be used to repeat the grant process, she said.

Flagg said she will also have information on what it would cost and the liability the town would face if it were to become certified through the state as first responders. Fire Department Chief Gerry Pineau brought the issue to selectmen Sept. 6. He would like the town to be certified so that they could carry oxygen and a trauma kit on a firetruck.

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