LIVERMORE – Selectpersons approved funds Monday to pave the basketball court on the recreation field.
Recreation Chairman Jeff Marceau reported the status of the field’s new basketball court, requesting funds to have it paved.
He explained that the field was pretty well fixed, but that plans for a volunteer to pave it had fallen through. Instead, the company working on Sanders Road had put recycled paving on it.
“It’s not right,” he told the board. “You can’t play basketball on it.” Marceau said the court would need 2 to 3 inches of loam to bring it back up to grade for a finish coat. He said he had received bids as high as $14,000 for the job.
“I’d really like to see it get done; it’s been lingering and lingering,” he said.
The board approved the expenditure of needed funds from the $10,000 Minnie Luciano Trust Fund, along with whatever is available in the committee’s fund to finish the job.
Marceau said he will obtain two more written bids and go with the best one. He will also have backboards and rims installed.
Marceau also told the board that the Spruce Mountain Ski area, which is owned jointly by Livermore, Jay and Livermore Falls, has a serious drainage problem. Administrator Kurt Schaub was to discuss it with town managers Alan Gove of Livermore Falls and Ruth Marden of Jay on Tuesday.
There has been some discussion on selling the slope, Marceau said, as volunteers are getting worn out. “You see the same faces who help in all sports, others just look at it as day care,” Marceau said.
“We’re trying to keep everything as volunteers, but we’re not getting a lot of new people,” said Marceau. “The board slope will run this year, but we need help,” he told the board.
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