FARMINGTON — The Board of Selectmen agreed to send out an amended request for proposal for a streetscape project. The project includes construction of new curbing, sidewalks and ornamental street lighting on Front Street and in West Farmington.

The amended RFP also seeks research on the feasibility of constructing an addition or trailway onto Center Bridge for recreational traffic. This traffic currently has to use the bridge sidewalk as do pedestrians. The proposal asks for consultation with the Maine Department of Transportation and creation of a plan and cost estimate for the trailway.

Based on a recommendation by the Downtown TIF Advisory Committee, the board asked Town Manager Richard Davis on Tuesday to send out the requests for a consultant to provide costs to design and manage the project.

The Streetscape Project, according to the RFP, would provide concrete sidewalk and granite curbing on Front Street from Franklin Savings Bank south to Main Street and street lighting from Narrow Gauge Lane to Main Street. The project also includes drainage and widening of the street from Depot Street to Main.

In West Farmington, the plan provides sidewalks, curbing and lights spreading out from “a portion of the West Farmington center where Town Farm Road and Bridge Street, Oakes Street and Temple Road intersect,” according to the RFP.

An amendment to the RFP calls for improvements at the rail trail entrance to make it more attractive and functional and includes adding a small, off-street parking area, diagonal parking spaces on Bridge Street and parallel spaces on Oakes St beside Village Improvement Society Park.

Funding for the project would come from town Tax Increment Financing and other funds.

The board also agreed with the TIF Advisory Committee recommendation to not seek an update on costs for a multi-use bridge over the Sandy River at the site of the former railroad trestle.

The project was set aside after a 2007 Maine Department of Transportation report came back with design costs nearing $2 million. Proponents had received a DOT grant to pay for an engineering study and a design for a recreational bridge to span the river.

The price for updating costs estimates from 2007 to 2015 received from engineering firm Louis Berger of Portland was nearly $5,000.

The board and committee agreed there was no sense in spending money to be told how much the project would cost now as the project was “so far out of view” Davis said.

The board did accept a donation from John Moore who offered the services of his employee, Jennifer Hutchinson, to design downtown banners.

An estimated cost to have a graphic designer do the work was $400.

Moore showed the board banners Hutchinson created for the Pumpkin and Fire and Ice festivals.

Hutchinson will create a few designs for the board to review.

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