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NEW GLOUCESTER — Selectmen on Monday reviewed equipment replacement schedules for the town’s Public Works, Fire and Rescue and Transfer Station.

The replacement schedules help with capital improvement planning and funding reserve accounts, which pay for dump trucks, fire engines and roll-off containers. Each schedule lists when an item needs to be replaced based on life expectancy and includes cost increases over time.

The board approved both the transfer station equipment and Public Works vehicle and equipment replacement schedules.

However, a request by fire Chief Gary Sacco to add a sport utility vehicle failed approval by a 3-2 vote. However, the replacement lists for all other replacement vehicles for the Fire and Rescue fleet remained intact. Selectmen opposed to the purchase said it would expand the fleet.

Sacco told selectmen the SUV would be a multi-use vehicle when calls warranted, such as basement flooding, downed wires, smoke investigations and woods fires, rather than take a firetruck to the scene.

In other business, the board approved the road name Glory Days Drive off the Intervale Road.

And, the board agreed to sell 0.04 acres of land owned by the town at Sunrise Lane to Harry King for $300. The lot is not buildable if added to King’s nonconforming lot of record.

Also, the board agreed to contract with Firetech of Randolph, Vt., to sell the town’s 1990 Pierce Dash Pumper. Firetech charges a 10 percent fee from the sale of the vehicle. The town failed to garner any responses last month through sealed bids.

Any sale funds are returned to the capital reserve account for the Fire Department.

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