MINOT — Selectmen on Monday evening awarded O’Connor Construction of Hebron the contract to build additions to the Central Fire Station on Woodman Hill Road and the Orchard Station on Death Valley Road.

O’Connor bid $31,950 for an 18-by-60-foot bay for a rescue vehicle at the Central Fire Station, and $28,000 for a 20-by-46-foot addition, primarily for training space, at the Orchard Station.

Fire Chief Dean Campbell said O’Connor’s work is for concrete pads and building shells with windows.

“Neither are complicated projects,” Campbell said.

The finish work, plumbing, electrical and the large, overhead doors are not included.

“We expect substantial completion of O’Connor’s work by mid-August,” Campbell said.

Voters approved $180,000 for the additions. The intent is for Campbell to act as general contractor with no pay, and to rely as much as possible on volunteer labor, primarily other members of the department, to keep expenditures well within the budget.

O’Connor offered a bid at just under $10,000 for site excavation work but Campbell said former fire Chief Steve French has agreed to do that job.

Campbell received a bid of $23,800 from Crapott’s Corp. of Livermore Falls to construct the two additions, with nothing for materials and concrete slabs. Selectmen said rejected the bid.

In other business, selectmen questioned Town Administrator Arlan Saunders about the June 9 referendum vote on the Regional School Unit 16 budget of $20.7 million for 2015-16.

Saunders said that, as far as he knew, absentee ballots were be available right after the May 21 districtwide budget meeting but they have not been received.

“I checked with (Maine Municipal Association) earlier this month and they said it was up to (the school district) to provide the required number of ballots, including absentee ballots, for the election,” Saunders said. “I sent that information to (Mechanic Falls Town Manager) John Hawley and (RSU 16 Superintendent) Tina Meserve. I don’t know what to tell you.”

Saunders also told the board that the Maine Department of Environmental Protection had signed off of the Cool Brook culvert project on Goodwin Road, but he understands the town has to file a permit with the Army Corps of Engineers because Cool Brook is in the Androscoggin River watershed and, according to maps, in the spawning area for Atlantic salmon.

Saunders said he began working on the 40-some-page application for the permit.