LIVERMORE — Voters will be asked to consider buying a 2005 Ford F-550 for $40,000 at a special town meeting Thursday, Oct. 18.
The truck is for sale by Central Maine Concrete Pumping of Livermore, assistant administrator Kurt Schaub said. It is equipped with a plow, wing and sander and has less than 6,000 miles on it, he said.
It does not have a dump body. The sander is affixed to the truck’s frame.
Selectpersons signed the warrants Tuesday to set the meeting to begin at 7 p.m. at the Livermore Elementary School. Local lawyer Clint Boothby will moderate the town meeting.
The Road Committee met Oct. 4 and decided it would be in the town’s best long-term interest to sell the town’s 2008 GMC and replace it with the Ford, Schaub said.
The committee believes the town should receive about $50,000 from the sale of the GMC, which would be sufficient to purchase the F-550 and add a dump body.
The GMC dump truck was bought for $84,776, including plow, wing and sander, in 2008, and is not meeting the town’s needs, Schaub said. It has 33,000 miles on it.
The Road Committee tried to have a meeting with the Budget Committee on Monday afternoon, Columbus Day. Only Chairwoman Tina Quirrion was available to attend.
“She is supportive of the plan,” Schaub said.
More research will be done into the value of the GMC prior to the meeting, he said.
In other business, the board awarded the contract for 3,000 yards of screened sand to R.S. Pidacks Inc. of Livermore for $19,750. The bids were to be inclusive of material cost, delivery, mixing road salt with sand and building the town’s sand pile, Schaub said.
The other two bidders were Jean Castonguay Logging and Excavating of Livermore Falls for $31,500 and Irvin Soper of Livermore for $23,490.
Schaub also informed the board that he and highway foreman Roger Ferland have worked out a plan for placing wood and bulky waste containers at the town’s transfer station, according to Schaub’s report.
The town will no longer have an agreement with Jay as of Jan. 1, 2013, to take the town’s bulky and wood waste. The town is developing a plan to make the two containers for the material fit at the town’s transfer station, Schaub said.
The plan calls for using the old Dumpster pit and rear-loading dock area of the former building slab.
Both areas will be cleared of fill material, and a new slab will be poured in the loading dock area to support the Dumpster that will be located there, Schaub said.
The new slab will have to match with the existing one in the original pit. The slab will measure 47 feet by 12 feet by 6 inches deep. It will be insulated underneath and reinforced to a rating of 3,000 pounds per square inch, he said.
Concrete barriers will line the top of the old building slab, to prevent users from backing or falling into the containers, he said.
Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments representative Ferg Lea will meet with Ferland and Schaub on Tuesday, Oct. 16, to develop a new setup pattern for the recycling bins. The town is set to solicit bids for the new pad, Schaub said.
Maine Municipal Association’s Loss Control representatives are reviewing the town’s plan from a safety standpoint.
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