PERU — An informational hearing is set for 6 p.m. Monday to explain the warrant article about buying a computer and software for the town office.

The article asks voters if they want to transfer $25,000 from the Capital Reserve Account to pay for accounting software from Trio/Harris Computer Systems.

Town Clerk Vera Parent said the software would include a budgetary accounting system, payroll, tax billing, assessing, tax collection system, online cash receipting, Maine Online Sportsman’s Electronic System, excise calculations, Trio licensing and Bureau of Motor Vehicles electronic registrations.

Parent said it would include the entire package of installation, training and 24/7 technical assistance.

Parent said that by raising the motor vehicle registrations from $2 to $4, which the selectmen have already approved, the money collected would pay the annual maintenance fee of $4,000.

She added that no additional tax money is involved as the Capital Reserve Account is set aside for capital purchases.

The explanation that will be on the warrant is that the town currently has two operating systems. The present assessing package was created by former Selectman Jim Pulsifer more than 20 years ago. Parent said that not only is it obsolete, but changes can only be made by Pulsifer because the system is so outdated.

Parent said that if the $25,000 is approved, there would be a $114,500 balance in the Capital Reserve Account.

Marie Eastman attends every selectmen’s meeting and asks questions so she can report back to a Concerned Citizens Group, which has six members. She records the meeting proceedings on perumaine.blogspot.com and invites any interested citizen to attend the meetings.

Eastman brought an information sheet, which she requested permission to hand out at the hearing. Board Chairman Laurieann Milligan cautioned Eastman to make sure she had all the facts checked by Parent before handing out information. Milligan also suggested that Eastman hand out the paper after the hearing so people would be able to participate without reading the material.

The board approved sending a letter to Jason Dolloff on his junkyard to get Dolloff to agree to continue to clear the property. Selectman Tim Holland said that Dolloff has moved quite a bit already.

By Maine law, selectmen are charged with enforcing the junkyard ordinance.

Eastman asked if the board had given Dolloff a timeline.

Milligan said the board could do no more than the state guidelines and they didn’t want to inflict a hardship on any citizen by setting a time limit on cleanup as long as progress was being made.

Anyone interested in volunteering to help repair some leaks in the town office roof, may call selectmen’s secretary Kathy Hussey.