LIVERMORE — The town’s Road Committee has revised its capital improvement plan for roads to keep it within the $260,000 allotted, which selectpersons approved Monday.

The plan was initially presented in February or March.

The proposed hot-topping of Schoolhouse Hill Road has been scrapped. The company doing roadwork in the town will repair the cold-mix surface as originally proposed, administrative assistant Kurt Schaub said Friday.

The cost of all but two pieces of a recent culvert order will be removed from the capital improvement account to the highway maintenance account.

“Only two of the culverts recently purchased were for capital improvement,” he said. The cost of the rented chipper and pavement-cutting saw will also come out of maintenance.

An estimated $2,000 for tree removal on Round Pond Road will be done with the highway maintenance budget, as tree work is generally maintenance, not improvement. Trees needed to be removed that were not anticipated, Schaub said.

More gravel was needed than expected on Richmond Hill Road, but highway foreman Roger Ferland told the board last week that the expense will likely be less than anticipated, Schaub said.

There will also now be no need to hire outside trucking services.

As is, the road plan will come in just under the $260,000, he said.

In other business, selectpersons agreed to change their next meeting to 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24, at the Town Office due to a scheduling conflict.

The board also received good news from fire Chief Don Castonguay, Schaub said.

He told selectpersons that thanks to the work of Assistant Chief Andrew Berry the Fire Department has received a $25,000 grant from the Steven and Tabatha King Foundation.

The department will use the grant to buy new rescue tools, including a hydraulic pump, spreader, cutter, ram and stabilization struts, Castonguay said in a letter to the board.

They have already had one demonstration from a dealer and will have another before it is decided what to buy.

“We should have a top-of-the-line system with the money we received,” Castonguay wrote.

Schaub also announced that resident Amy Byron will be the new office fill-in employee when one of the office staff is out.

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