LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen voted Monday to have the Planning Board look into drafting a fireworks ordinance for the town, Town Manager Kristal Flagg said Tuesday.

The Board of Selectmen only want the ordinance to put some guidelines on fireworks in the village area, she said.

“They don’t want to ban them,” Flagg said.

The village area is considered from the Jay line in Chisholm Square to Route 17 to where the power lines cross the road, to Moose Hill Road and the Church Street area, she said.

Police had several complaints during the week of the Fourth of July about fireworks in the downtown area on Wheeler Street.

Police responded to the calls but were unable to do anything about them because those setting them off were within the state’s fireworks law, police Chief Ernest Steward Jr. said previously.

According to the law, fireworks may be set off from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on property the user either owns or has permission to use, Steward said.

The law does allow for an extended window of use on July 4, from 9 a.m. until 12:30 a.m. The extended period also applies to the weekend before and after July 4. The same rules go for  New Year’s Eve. The time period is extended to the weekend before and the weekend following, he said.

In other business Monday, selectmen voted to transfer $9,508 in recreation revenue to the recreation budget, Flagg said. The board did the same transfer last year.

In another matter, Flagg said that the town and developer Kevin Bunker, who plans to renovate and re-develop the historic Lamb Block building on Depot Street, are still working with the Governor’s Office and the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development on funding for the project.

The town was awarded a $400,000 grant from Communities for Maine’s Future on behalf of Lamb Block Associates to assist with redeveloping the building.

Town officials learned in June that Gov. Paul LePage froze the grant money, which was part of a $25 million bond approved by Maine voters in 2010. The town of Livermore Falls will be the fiscal agent for the grant.

The town is one of 11 communities in the state to be awarded grant funds to help revitalize downtowns.

Bunker, who controls the Lamb Block Associates, plans to use the grant and historic tax credits and invest about $2 million in the project to restore the building back to its pre-Civil War stature and bring it up to code. A HealthReach medical clinic is slated for the third-floor.

dperry@sunjournal.com

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