BUCKFIELD — Town Manager Dana Lee told selectmen Tuesday night that he will have figures for financing the $1.2 million fire-rescue station at the next board meeting. The architect will also attend, he said.
Voters last month approved building an 80- by 100-foot station next to the Municipal Building on Route 117. Architect Andy Hyland of Port City Architects told them a new station on the current site would be considerably less expensive than a full-scale renovation of the 60-year-old station.
Lee said demolition of the old station would begin in April 2014 and the new station would be ready for use that fall.
Selectmen discussed where to house the trucks during construction.
Martha Catevenis asked why they couldn’t stay outside, and fire Chief Tim Brooks said it would be possible. Lee added that since the project would be done in warm weather, there shouldn’t be a problem with them being outside.
Selectman Warren Wright wanted to know if a loan had been sought yet, because interest rates were sure to climb.
Lee said he would have figures by the next meeting.
In other news, the board reappointed Cynthia Dunn as town clerk, treasurer and tax collector, bookkeeper, accounts payable clerk, payroll clerk, registrar of voters and assessor’s assistant.
They also reappointed Candice Brooks as E911 addressing officer, Lisa Buck as rescue chief, Robert Larrabee as animal control officer, Thomas Verrill as sealer of weights and measures and Roger Williams as plumbing inspector.
The Budget Committee received six applications and Wright said he was elated there is so much interest. The board went into executive session to discuss the applicants and after returning to open meeting appointed Elizabeth Knox and Glen Holmes for three-year terms and Sandra Perkins for a two-year term.
Eileen Hotham was appointed to the Community Day Committee and Janet Iverson to a one-year term on the Conservation, Parks and Beautification Committee.
Lee presented a summer roads budget and listed priorities as High Street, Old Sumner Road, Purkis Road and Darnit Road.
Reid Scher, executive director of St. Andre Home in Lewiston, met with the board to request approval of a Community Development Block grant to purchase a home for pregnant and homeless women. He did not say what home was being purchased.
Representatives of Saint Andre Home, the Grace and Hope Foundation, and the Not Here Justice in Action Network have been asked to present the proposal to selectmen and/or the Planning Board.
The board tabled Scher’s request for more information.
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