FARMINGTON — Franklin County commissioners voted to Tuesday to appoint corrections officer, Jane Proctor, as the new transport officer for the county jail.

The position was posted in-house and there were two applicants, county Clerk Julie Magoon said.

Former transport officer Walter Fails left the position when he was promoted to sergeant to be a night supervisor at the jail earlier this year.

Proctor came to work at the Franklin County Detention Center full-time as a corrections officer in 2005. She was named in May as the corrections Officer of the Quarter.

Proctor will work with transport supervisor Cpl. Phil Richards.

In other business Tuesday, Commissioner Gary McGrane of Jay said that after the commission accepted the low bid of $3,575 from Western Maine Paving on Aug. 5 to pave a gravel parking lot and walkway at the communications center, the company withdrew its bid because of an error the company made in its bid.

Magoon had emailed the three commissioners to see if they had a problem with going with the next low-bidder, McGrane said.

Commissioners agreed to go with Pavement Plus of Smithfield to do the job for $5,749.

He just wanted to make sure the change was noted in the clerk’s report, McGrane said.

Commissioners also voted to award the job of repointing bricks and repairing granite stairs at the courthouse building to Eagers Masonry of Farmington. The cost is not to exceed $5,000.

Greg Roux, county facility manager, said he talked to three different people on the repointing of the bricks on three sides of the building and they all had different ways to go about it. Eagers offered more information and offered to do the stairs for the $5,000 that was in the budget, he said.

A backing will be installed on the stairs to help hold the mortar joints in place, he said.

Commissioners also approved buying a second 500-gallon propane tank to run the generator at the communications center to make sure there is adequate amount of propane during the winter months.

The pad poured prior to the dispatch center opening was large enough to hold two tanks, Roux said.

Magoon said that it was known all along that they would need to have two tanks but bought one to get the center up and running.

The money for the $900 refurbished tank is included in the communications budget.

NOTE: The story has been corrected since it was initially reported to reflect that Jane Proctor had been named Officer of the Quarter. It was a reporter’s error.

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