LIVERMORE — The town’s sand policy has been reaffirmed.

Residents are permitted to pick up two 5-gallon buckets of sand per storm, administrative assistant Kurt Schaub said.

Most residents pick up their sand at the Transfer Station, but a smaller pile is kept at the Highway Garage for residents to use on days the station is closed, he said.

The town is also facing having to build a salt and salt storage shed in the future.

Schaub said he recently had a discussion with Peter Coughlan of the Maine Local Roads Center concerning salt and sand storage sheds.

Schaub said Coughlan asked about Livermore’s status on building a storage building.

The building was discussed about five or six years ago when a letter went out to towns encouraging them to go ahead and put up a building, then get on the state’s list for reimbursement, he said.

There were no guarantees as to when any town would receive its state share of funding as it was up to the state Legislature, so the matter was dropped.

Scaub said he was told that all Priority 1 and 2 towns have been paid, and that 55 of 63 Priority 3 towns have been paid.

“Livermore is a Priority 3 town, meaning that the town will eventually have to build a shed, but there is no fine if we wait,” Schaub said.

At this point the program is more than 20 years old and there is some concern that the Legislature may be getting tired of funding it, he said.

Under the program, Livermore’s state reimbursement would be 34 percent of cost.

Schaub said he will bring up the matter at the next meeting of the town’s Road Committee and conduct a search for grant funding.

Total costs for such a building is in excess of $200,000, he said.

Even though the state will kick in a chunk of the cost, it’s tough to swallow given that road paving and reconstruction needs are massive, Schaub said.

Selectpersons and others at a Board of Selectpersons meeting on Dec. 17 had discussions on various types of buildings and their costs, but the surface has barely been scratched, he said.

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