MEXICO — The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday will decide whether to replace an electric stove at the Town Office and whether to extend the COPS grant.

The meeting is set for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13, in the Calvin P. Lyons room at the Town Office.

During the board’s Dec. 23 meeting, Town Manager John Madigan said the stove in the Calvin P. Lyons room “is beginning to get expensive to maintain.”

Town Clerk Penny Duguay said she frequently finds the stove left on when she goes downstairs to check on it.

“You can’t tell on the dial where you need to turn it to shut the stove off, and the oven light doesn’t always stay on,” Duguay told the board.

She agreed to check local stores to find an affordable electric stove.

Selectmen will also make a decision on whether to extend the COPS grant, which is designed to bolster law enforcement.

The Police Department originally received a $156,071 grant in September 2013, police Chief Roy Hodsdon said.

Hodsdon said at the board’s Dec. 23 meeting that  he received a letter from the COPS Hiring Program.

“The basic idea of the letter is that if we decide to extend the grant, it wouldn’t be affected if Mexico and Rumford were to merge police departments,” he said. “The only way the grant would be affected is if we decided to go with the Sheriff’s Office.”

Among the other items on the agenda are:

* Discussion on whether to put an article on the June town warrant asking if residents wish to start a tax club;

* Discussion of an invitation for proposals for weekly garbage collection and biweekly recycling collection;

* Appointment of registrar of voters;

* Trailer park license renewals;

* Taxi cab license renewals; and

* Oakdale Country Club liquor license renewals.

mdaigle@sunjournal.com

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