LIVERMORE FALLS — Voters here will be asked Tuesday to consider accepting two federal grants and authorizing town officials to borrow money to replace the sewer system on Main Street.
Residents will also have the name of one Regional School Unit 36 candidate, Jackie Knight, on the ballot. Selectmen appointed Knight, a former selectman and school board member, to fill the seat of Mac Haynes until Nov. 2.
Polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the town office.
The Sewer Department needs to replace clay pipe that is about 100 years old.
The Maine Department of Transportation plans to rebuild a 1.1-mile section of the road from Bridge Street in Livermore Falls to Pineau Street in Jay.
Livermore Falls and Jay sewer departments plan to replace sewer lines during that project. Livermore Falls Water District plans to replace water lines at the same time.
The project has been delayed for years, but most recently MDOT Project Manager Jim Ferguson said actual construction would get under way in 2011.
It is estimated that the town’s share will be about $600,000, Town Manager Jim Chaousis said in September.
Voters on Tuesday will be asked to accept two grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the amount of $258,700.
As part of the same question, they will be asked to authorize the town treasurer and select board chairman to issue general securities for the town to cover two USDA low-interest loans that go along with the grants for an amount not to exceed $326,300.
Sewer users will pay for the loans through fees. It is expected that by the time the bonds need to be repaid, one of the existing loans for the Sewer Department will be paid off, Chaousis previously said. The new project is not expected to affect the sewer rate structure, he has said.
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