FARMINGTON — The Board of Selectmen accepted two grants totaling $8,000 for the Parks and Recreation Department this week.
It also approved funding for a liner for the department’s skating rink at Hippach Field.
The department was given a $1,000 grant from Wal-Mart and a $7,000 grant from the Healthy Community Coalition.
A liner would provide better quality ice, less work and less water use, Parks and Recreation Director Matthew Foster told the board. An ice rink package can be purchased for $7,600.
In other business, the board unanimously approved bids from Quirk Ford of Augusta for a three-quarter-ton, four-wheel drive pickup truck for the Sewer Department and for a new police cruiser to replace the one destroyed in an accident this summer.
Quirk Ford of Augusta submitted the lowest bid, $34,885, for a 2016 Ford Super Duty F-250 SRW for the Sewer Department. Two bids submitted by Bailey Brothers Ford and Farmington Ford were over $39,000 and one from O’Connor GMC was over $40,000.
A bid of $27,096 from Quirk of Augusta for a 2016 Interceptor SUV police cruiser was the lowest bid of three received. The other two bids from Bailey Brothers were for 2017 vehicles, an SUV for $30,065 and a sedan for $27,335.
Just over $14,000 was received from the insurance on the previous car. The sum of $8,000 will be taken from the vehicle reserve account and the rest from the department’s budget to pay for the vehicle, Police Chief Jack Peck told the board.
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