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LIVERMORE – Selectpersons voted Monday to spend $11,100 to build up the shoulders of Strickland Ferry Road to bring them to the edge of the newly paved road.

The town started off with $270,112 in a capital road improvement fund and has plans for most of it.

Paving the Strickland Ferry Road cost about $115,000, selectpersons Administrative Assistant Kurt Schaub said.

Selectperson Tom Berry told fellow board members that the shoulders hadn’t been factored into the project.

An estimate for the project, which would be done with reclaimed pavement, is about $11,100.

The town has set aside $35,000 to the match Federal Emergency Management Agency money to do bridge work on Turkey Lane, Schaub said.

Berry also brought up pavement resurfacing on Beechwood Terrace, which is estimated to cost $16,060, and work on Israelson Road, which he called a wreck.

But selectpersons opted to do Strickland Road’s shoulders to preserve that recent project after a discussion on doing Waters Hill Road and the terrace, before deciding what project should be done next.

There is also paving work to do on Turkey Lane once the bridge project is done, Schaub said.

He told the board that the town has looked at multiple options for repairing paving damaged by the April 16 storm within FEMA’s emergency disaster fund allowances.

Schaub said the town cannot buy sufficient material to do the paving work on damaged roads with the $9,000 allotted by FEMA for the work, he said. The cost for the volume of material they specified is nearly $22,000, which does not included labor to put it in place.

He said he will contact a representative of the Maine Emergency Management Agency to discuss the matter.

In other business, Schaub said that an air quality report on the town’s transfer station office indicates low levels of mold are present. It does not pose an immediate health threat but needs to be taken care of.

There is also mildew from water seepage and an animal odor from with the wall, he said.

Officials plan to take care of the critter problem, he said, and steps have been taken to seal around the garage doors and existing siding and most obvious point of entries to try to stop water from seeping into the building.

The lower area of the office wall will be removed and, depending on the amount of mildew found, it will be professionally cleaned and sealed to prevent further contamination, he said.

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