BETHEL – Selectmen authorized change orders for two large projects Monday night.

Change orders to the $405,310 Androscoggin River riverbank stabilization project at Davis Park included $8,000 for a full-time inspection of the project, and $2,500 to prepare a planting plan beyond loaming and seeding, with vendor Weston & Sampson.

Change orders with vendor Swayse included $8,000 to install filter fabric, and $5,000 to purchase and plant vegetation.

The changes were made after Federal Emergency Management Agency approval, following a review by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Town Manager Scott Cole said the FEMA approval included a contingency for the additional costs.

Of the $405,310 project, Bethel received a FEMA grant for $303,983 to repair last winter’s flood damage; the town’s match was $101,327.

The board also OK’d a change order for the $149,087 Bethel Ambulance Barn expansion project on Lower Main Street.

In that project, Cole said the State Fire Marshal’s Office required several additions to the scope of work after the town and Jerbeck Construction executed the construction contract.

These new costs and additions included $5,400 for an alarm system and emergency lighting, $1,500 for a back deck, $900 for two exterior doors for bedrooms, and $300 each for a cement ramp in the ambulance bay for handicapped accessibility, and extra fireproofing of walls.

After being notified of the fire marshal’s requirements, Cole said he subsequently met with the ambulance chief, Bethel’s code enforcement officer and the contractor to incorporate the additions while not increasing the project’s total cost.

As a result, the following items were changed in the contract:

• $6,000 for 32 feet of decking on the side of the building was removed.

• $1,500 for pavement patching and striping was removed.

• $200 was gained for ceilings on decks to be pine instead of cedar.

• $150, three 6-inch, concrete-filled pipe bollards were removed.

Cole said the difference between the additions and deletions would be absorbed by the contractor.

He said late Tuesday afternoon that the town would do the pavement patching and striping work next year.