LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen are not interested in taking over plowing and snow removal for RSU 73’s high school and superintendent’s office/learning center on Cedar Street.

They did not take a vote on the request but agreed by consensus Monday night.

Town Manager Kristal Flagg told the board that RSU 73 Superintendent Robert Wall asked if the town was willing to do that, she said.

Highway Foreman Billy Nichols put together some figures that indicated it would cost about $113,000 with labor and material, she said.

The town would need a new piece of equipment and have to put on another person, she said.

“I’m sure it is not beneficial to them or to us,” Flagg said of the cost.

It would be different if there were enough employees and equipment to do it, Chairman Bill Demaray said.

The town has barely enough personnel to keep the town’s roads cleared, he said.

“Billy said ‘that he would like to help them but we can’t,’” she said.

Demaray said he believed it would be more cost efficient for a small company to do it.

Personnel and other items for the department have been cut back over the years, Demaray said.

There are currently four highway workers. Part-time help has to be hired at times.

“I don’t think it would be feasible,” Demaray said.

RSU 73 Director Carmen Cullen said the first she heard about the request was when a question was directed her way. Cullen is on the town’s Budget Committee.

The Spruce Mountain High School South Campus in Livermore Falls will close as of June 30 for high school academics. The building will be used for other activities. As of the fall of 2013, the students from Livermore Falls and Livermore who attend that school will go to the Spruce Mountain High School North Campus in Jay.

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