JAY — Proceeds from timber harvesting on the Tower Lot behind the high school have exceeded initial estimates by $10,539.68, Town Manager Ruth Cushman said Tuesday.
R & A Ridley, Inc. of Jay won the contract to cut about 152 harvestable acres of the 193 acres on the lot in 2010. The logging company was among several that bid for the job. Some of that land behind the school has since been transferred to RSU 73, when Jay and RSU 36 consolidated on July 1, 2011. The acreage around the schools had been cut prior to the transfer of ownership.
The harvest brought in $141,008.93, compared to the projected $130,469.26, according to forester Steve Gettle’s information he provided to the Board of Selectmen on Monday.
“We have earned more money than was anticipated and estimated,” Cushman said.
The money is targeted for recreation purposes and has gone into a recreation reserve account. Proceeds from a communications tower lease also go into that account.
Of the total amount the town received, $60,447.64 came in 2010, $41,894.36 in 2011 and $38,666.93 in 2012 and 2013. The last check the town received was for the week ending Feb. 1.
Ron Ridley of R & A Ridley, Inc. will not get to the transfer lot to finish it this year, Cushman said.
The town is no longer under contract with the company for that property.
“We are not in contract and we will have to decide if we want to rebid or wait for Ron to complete the job,” she said.
In other business, selectmen voted to take $3,024 from the tower fund for liability insurance as requested by the Area Youth Sports organization, she said. The organization asks the towns it serves, including Livermore and Livermore Falls, each year to help pay for the insurance.
The board also signed a no-fault agreement with Pratt & Sons Inc. of Minot pertaining to the Route 4 construction project in relation to some sags in sewer line pipes that were installed during the project in 2011 and 2012. Both Livermore Falls and Jay, along with Ted Berry Inc. and Wright-Pierce, have agreed to the no-fault pact. The sags are considered to be minor, according to town managers and a representative of the Maine Department of Transportation.
dperry@sunjournal.com
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