MINOT – Road manager Arlan Saunders told selectmen Tuesday night that it appears the town will receive about $11,000 reimbursement for expenses incurred during the Dec. 6 and 7 snowstorm.

With final paperwork submitted to Federal Emergency Management Agency officials setting the total damage at $14,600, the town should receive about $10,950 based on a 75 percent reimbursement rate. That’s about $2,000 more than Saunders estimated earlier.

Saunders also advised selectmen that he has received a driveway entrance application from Chuck Starbird for Star Drive, Lot 11.

Noting that the proposed entrance was beyond the accepted portion of the road, selectmen told Saunders to send Starbird a letter telling him to hold off until after March town meeting when townspeople will have taken action on accepting the road.

“Star Drive now meets engineering criteria for a town road, and we’ll be recommending it for acceptance. We can’t tell people how to vote but this should become a moot issue,” said Selectman George “Buster” Downing.

Saunders also reported he has yet to receive Maine Department of Transportation’s written report containing recommendations for traffic flow on Old Woodman Hill Road.

For years selectmen and residents have been concerned about the number of accidents and near misses at Old Woodman Hill Road and Minot Avenue just across from the Minot Country Store.

Saunders said MDOT officials are well aware of the area’s unsafe traffic conditions and have verbally relayed their recommendations to curtail access onto Minot Avenue.

Town Administrator Gregory Gill said he received a call from Old Woodman Hill Road resident Jeff Sturgis telling him of a survey he (Sturgis) conducted a while ago. The survey indicated that about 65 percent of Old Woodman Hill Road residents favored making the road one way going from Minot Avenue onto Old Woodman Hill Road.

Saunders said he had spoken to a resident who was against limiting access onto Minot Avenue.

Selectmen said no action will be taken until the MDOT report has been reviewed and appropriate public hearings held.

Selectmen unanimously adopted the state’s recently revised standards for junkyards, automobile graveyards and automobile recycling businesses.

Responding to residents’ complaints of what appear to be violations of junkyard standards, selectmen told Gill to put people on notice that beginning April 1, the town will be enforcing new standards, putting Minot in compliance with state regulations.

No one appeared to speak at a public hearing on the town’s application for a $10,000 grant through the Community Development Block Grant urgent needs program to help pay for the new well at the Minot Consolidated School. Selectmen noted that the well’s final cost was $24,008, and Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments is doing an environmental assessment of the project.