LIVERMORE FALLS — Without adding money for capital improvements, the town’s proposed budget is $2.2 million for 2012-13, Town Manager Kristal Flagg said Monday.

The proposal is $4,659 more than this fiscal year’s budget. Board of Selectmen Chairman Bill Demaray said he wanted to check the bottom line before determining how much to put into a capital improvement account. The board will be discussing that at its next meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, at the Town Office.

The budget includes no raises for town employees, Demaray said. A public hearing on the budget and proposed ordinances is set for 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 30, at the Town Office. Initially 2 percent was added because wage negotiations will be ongoing in the coming year.

A separate article will be placed on the warrant for annual town meeting referendum on Tuesday, June 12, in regard to money that has rolled into surplus. The Fire Department sold three trucks in the last two years. Money for two of the trucks went back to surplus last year and there is $2,226 that Flagg recommended go back to surplus this year. It is a total of $8,027, she said.

Voters will be asked to use $7,900 from surplus to buy four sets of turnout gear for firefighters. Initially that was in the Fire Department’s proposed budget. The money was supposed to have gone back to the Fire Department to offset the purchase of a new truck, but an article on last year’s town meeting warrant was not written that way, she said.

Fire Chief Gerry Pineau is recommending that the department budget replace four sets of gear each year over 10 years. The cost to replace all 38 sets of gear at once would be $74,100, Pineau previously said.

Demaray said he agreed with the plan as long as the gear is bought each year.

Flagg also suggested an article to take care of dangerous and nuisance buildings be put on the warrant.

dperry@sunjournal.com

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