PERU – Road project manager Dale Carlton and Road Commissioner David Gammon gave selectmen an update on major work sites Monday night.

Carlton said he should have estimates for the board on the five major tarring projects by April 30. First, he said, the road would be sprayed with a liquid tar to bond the old layer with the new.

“I really want to do tacking before putting the final asphalt,” he said.

Board Chairman Bill Hine asked Carlton when he expected to go to bid on Ridge, Peru Center, Valley and Gammon roads.

Carlton said he planned to be ready by May 15.

The board agreed to have Gammon get the old sand pile screened and moved to clean up the old site. The old sand will be added to the sand in the sand and salt shed.

Gammon said some dirt roads are ready for raking, but he can’t afford to grade all of the town’s nine miles of gravel roads. He will concentrate on the heavily traveled roads.

He also said that where they had used calcium chloride on the gravel roads they were holding up very well.

Hine said the summer road budget was grossly under funded. He favors doing proper grading in the fall, so the roads will be ready for the spring run-off to go into ditches rather than having the water run down the roads.

Hine said he and Phil Curtis from the state Department of Transportation toured the roads last week, and Curtis said Peru’s roads were in pretty good shape.

In other news the board was informed that:

• cleanup on paved roads is scheduled for May 7 and 8 by inmates.

• the U.S. Census Bureau will be holding a workshop Tuesday, May 15. Selectmen’s Secretary Kathy Hussey said she or Town Clerk Vera Parent would plan to attend.

• Peru’s free dumping at Northern Oxford Regional Solid Waste station will be from May 7-26.

• Hazardous waste collection will be June 9.

• Tax Assessor Bob Gingras will attend the May 7 board meeting.

• Selectmen will tour the new school site at 5 p.m. May 14.

Hine read a letter from Code Enforcement Officer Jack Plumley which stated he did not intend to approve the Bickford property on Worthley Pond for year-round occupancy because there should be 100 feet of shoreland frontage; Bickford has 66 feet. The board also agreed not to approve the request.