BUCKFIELD – Kirk Nadeau from Kean Engineering gave selectmen an update Tuesday night on a proposed Streaked Mountain wind power project.

Kean is eyeing a mountaintop site on private land that could hold three wind turbines. Nadeau said the landowner is open to the idea and the next step is to offer him a letter of intent. Kean would monitor wind there for a year to see if the force is sufficient to feasibly generate power.

Kean is also working with Sumner on a wind project, but the town has no deed for the property under consideration.

Town Manager Glen Holmes said there is a huge difference in the Sumner project because Sumner planned to use land the town acquired through taxes. Because of that, voter approval is needed.

In Buckfield, Kean is looking at private land and the town would not need to approve it. The landowner would only need to obtain a building permit.

Nadeau said people would have an opportunity to invest in the project, though everything at this point is preliminary. There would be a seven- to 10-year payback for investors.

In other matters, selectmen were given a draft ordinance regarding bidder qualifications for town projects. Holmes said the draft was taken from Bangor’s code of ethics and was approved by that city’s attorneys. Holmes added a paragraph to address the issue of town employees bidding on projects.

The ordinance reads that any bid or proposal submitted by a town employee or elected official would be automatically rejected. An exception would be allowed if the employee or town official owned less than 10 percent in the bidding company.

Selectmen signed the Western Maine Firefighters Association mutual aid agreement, which facilitates cooperation between towns in Western Maine when responding to fires or other emergencies.

They received a report from the Swap Shop showing nearly three tons of goods were taken out of the shop in November, making a yearly total of more than 37,000 pounds removed from the waste stream.

Holmes told selectmen that he had contracted for sidewalk clearing at $60 an hour from Northland Holder from Turner. Holmes said the town had approved $10,000 in the road budget for sidewalk clearing at the June town meeting.