FARMINGTON — The Voter Hill road reconstruction work is complete.

The Board of Selectmen, Town Manager Richard Davis and Public Works Director Denis Castonguay gathered at the hill late Friday afternoon for a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The sides of the road and driveways still need to be finished, Davis said.

“The work went very well except the weather,” Castonguay said. “The biggest issue was the hill, the steepness.”

The work included lowering the grade from 26 to 20 degrees. Part of the bottom of the hill was built up and part of the top of it was cut, he said.

“I’m proud of my crew,” he said. “It’s a small crew but they did a total reconstruction of the road while working on this steep hill all summer.”

The work started mid-June and paving was finished Friday by Bruce A. Manzer Inc., he said.

The project, 8,242 feet or about a mile and a half in length, took 7,000 yards of gravel for the base and 2,141 tons of asphalt, Castonguay said. The base coat will need to be surfaced next year.

A couple of residents on the hill came out of their homes to thank the town manager and selectmen.

Thanking Davis, one spoke of spending a few thousand dollars on car repairs over the last few years due to the condition of the road.

This is the first road tackled under a five-year Capital Improvement Program for town roads approved by voters at the March town meeting.

Work was also done this summer on Johnson Heights, Davis said.

Voters raised $133,000, which was combined with an expected $170,000 from the Maine State Urban Rural Initiative Program, to cover the costs of the work on Voter Hill and Johnson Heights this year.

The next road up for reconstruction is Morrison Hill, the next hill over from Voter, Davis said. It all depends on what happens at the town meeting next March, he said.

The consensus of a volunteer committee formed in 2010 to discuss road conditions was that the town roads are “in very poor shape and maintenance and repair work has been underfunded for some time,” according to a handout supporting the article at town meeting.

Road conditions have concerned town officials for some time. While the life span of a road is considered 10 years, many of Farmington’s 71 miles of roads have not seen major work in more than 15 years, Davis said at the time.

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