JAY – Selectmen are scheduled to discuss a proposed two-year contract for ambulance service when they meet at 6 p.m. Monday at the Community Building.

Jay’s subsidy for 2006 is estimated at $53,600.

Franklin Memorial Hospital officials have outlined a proposal to consolidate its ambulance services into one system to serve the greater Franklin County area.

Hospital President Richard Batt said the plan would offer “outstanding services in a more efficient arrangement.”

The combined single system is to be called NorthStar Emergency Medical Services. Emergency medical service vehicles would carry the new name followed by the wording: “A regional program of Franklin Memorial Hospital building on the heritage of AMPS, CES, LifeStar, Rangeley and Sugarloaf.”

Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls residents are currently served by Community Emergency Services based in Livermore.

CES made 562 emergency medical service runs in 2003 in Jay. Additionally, the service made 364 emergency service runs in Livermore Falls and 238 in Livermore in 2003.

Livermore’s projected subsidy for the 2006 contract is $22,600, and Livermore Falls’ is $34,700.

The towns are being offered contracts for an initial two-year period with subsequent contracts for one year, with prices adjusted annually for medical inflation. Contracts will include a three-month cancellation clause.

Also on Monday’s agenda, selectmen are scheduled to consider a final payment on the Pineau Street road project.

Selectmen at their last meeting approved payment of $1,072 to Sevee & Maher for engineering services. However, they withheld making the final payment to contractor C.H. Stevenson until complaints of water in basements were investigated.

Other items on the agenda include a discussion with transfer station and recycling coordinator Rhonda Irish on fees and an Area Youth Sports insurance request.

Area Youth Sports provides athletic programs to younger athletes in Fayette, Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls and is trying to raise money for liability insurance for the organization.

The insurance is estimated to cost $10,000 and would be divided among the four towns, Town Manager Ruth Marden said previously.