NORWAY – A decision on whether to hire a contractor to run the Brown Street transfer station is still in the works, according to the Norway-Paris Solid Waste Corp.

“Nothing has happened since the last meeting,” General Manager Alison McCrady said Tuesday. “So we’re not going anywhere and we’re not going anywhere on the multiple possibilities on days we’re going to close, if any.”

McCrady said she expects discussion on both topics at an Oct. 20 meeting of the company’s board of directors.

The measures are being considered as a way to cut costs and help with limited staffing at the transfer station.

Eric Grondahl, president of the facility’s board, said a request for proposals from contractors interested in running the station is almost complete. Once finished it will be sent to Norway and Paris selectmen for comment.

“Hopefully we’ll have all the comments back by our meeting in November or December,” Grondahl said.

From there, directors intend to seek bids and decide if contracted services will save money.

“If the tax cap comes in, I think the towns would welcome us with open arms because we’ll be saving them money,” Grondahl said.

Facility directors received two bids for the work in June, but decided more research was needed.

The bids, at $360,000 and $381,000 per year, did not include the same range of recycling and waste disposal services as now offered.

Norway-Paris Solid Waste is a quasi-municipal service founded in the early 1980s. The corporation runs the transfer station and the Frost Hill landfill, which opened in 1994. Each town paid $240,000 this year to run the corporation.

McCrady said directors meeting Oct. 20 also may discuss reduced winter landfill hours. The landfill is open five days a week most of the year, she said, but last year the board decided to reduce that to three days in the winter.