LIVERMORE — Selectperson Chairman Mark Chretien said an administrative assistant had been hired at the board meeting Tuesday night, Jan. 31.

Carrie Judd of Livermore will start Thursday, Feb. 9, Chretien said. Her salary will be $57,200, he noted.

“She has been employed at Otis [Federal Credit Union] for more than 20 years, she started as a bank teller,” Chretien stated. Judd is currently a teller supervisor, has no municipal experience, he added.

In other business selectpersons discussed an appeal regarding winter maintenance of Wyman Road. The appeal was made by Ron Guay, an attorney representing Chris and Addie McHugh who live on the road.

The meeting was to be held at 5:15 p.m. Feb. 1 at the Androscoggin County building in Auburn.

A petition for the appeal of municipal action pertaining to winter closing of a portion of Wyman Road in Livermore asked that Livermore continue to maintain the road as it has been historically and to comply with the law by taking necessary steps as the statutory process works out, if the road is to be discontinued, according to a letter commissioners sent to Livermore selectpersons.

“They are fighting that we are only doing our portion,” Selectperson Scott Richmond said. “They want us to do as we had done in the past, do all the way. Our attorney advised us to go and represent ourselves.”

“They are saying we are discontinuing the road through abandonment for winter maintenance,” Selectperson Brett Deyling said. “I would just say that we have a tax map that shows the road being 135 feet long. It’s very clear that we are in fact maintaining our portion of Wyman Road. Not leaving a bank at the end of that portion and allowing the landowner access to his property, his driveway. He can plow his driveway just like everybody else in town.”

In Sept. 2022 selectpersons took no action on closing a section of Wyman Road to winter maintenance, after Chris McHugh and Guay questioned the legality of doing so.

In October, selectpersons voted to continue the process of closing Wyman Road to winter maintenance and snowblow their portion this winter.

At first, no bids were received in October to snowblow the road. Later that month Jamie Roy of Livermore bid $5,000 to clear the dead-end road for each of the next two years and was awarded the contract.

Richmond said they would report back at the next meeting, which is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 14.

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