LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen agreed Monday to hold off on deciding when to hold a special town meeting to deal with the 12 articles voters rejected during the annual town meeting referendum June 11.

The board wants to wait to see what happens with the state budget. They want to know how much the town will received from state revenue-sharing, if anything, before they bring the failed articles back to voters.

Gov. Paul LePage proposes to eliminated revenue-sharing for the new two years for towns. The Legislature’s budget proposal would reinstate 65 percent of the $400 million in revenue sharing.

LePage has also said he would veto the Legislature’s proposal, selectmen’s Chairman Bill Demaray said.

The town receives about $350,000 in state revenue-sharing.

It would be a two-year savings plan on the state’s behalf at the town’s expense, Town Manager Kristal Flagg said.

Revenue-sharing would resume in two years, according to LePage’s plan.

The only problem is when they take it away they don’t give it back, Demaray said.

Voters did approve an article that allows the town to run on the current budget until a new budget is passed, he said.

Selectmen do not know what the town will get for revenue, Selectman Jim Collins said.

Rather than hold two additional special town meetings, the board believes it best to just hold one.

Not all articles that failed were related to a proposed $2.25 million municipal budget. A couple were related to ordinances. The proposal is $45,774 less than the current budget.

Flagg told selectmen she was getting emails on the grant for the sidewalk as part of the walk/bike path.

Voters approved withdrawing an additional $32,000 from surplus for the sidewalk on Park Street/Route 133 section of the path by a 149-139 vote. Residents approved withdrawing $20,000 in the current year’s budget last year. The town’s share of the $260,250 project is $52,050. It is to build a sidewalk from the corner of Foundry Road and Route 133 back toward town to end past the town’s snow-dump across from Birch Street.

The board agreed by consensus that the project should move forward since voters approved it.

“I have a problem if people approve a project and we don’t do it, if people want it done,” Demaray said.

Selectmen will look at the articles that failed and determine if they want to adjust them or send them back to voters as is, he said. He also said they will decide on whether to hold another referendum vote or an open-style town meeting as has been done in the past when a budget fails.

Sometimes people reject an article during a referendum vote because they don’t understand what it is, Demaray said.

Last year voters rejected 11 municipal articles. At a special town meeting that followed up on the articles, voters trimmed $3,215 from the budget.

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