Town to buy accident insurance to cover firefighters

Selectpersons voted Monday to buy insurance to cover volunteer firefighters if they get hurt while carrying out their duties, select board administrative assistant Kurt Schaub said Tuesday.

The cost for the Maine Municipal Association insurance is $44.61 per firefighter, he said. There are about 15 firefighters, he said, so the cost will be about $600. The town's insurance budget line will cover the cost due to the retirement of an employee.

Fire Chief Don Castonguay had previously asked the board to provide the insurance.

The board also voted to go with R.S. Pidacks of Livermore to buy 3,000 yards of sand for the winter, The cost is $5.75 per yard to have it delivered and mixed with the town's salt, and to build the sand pile, Schaub said.

Pidacks was the only bidder. It is the same price as last year, he said.

Select board members also reviewed five bids from Livermore contractors to build a 12- by 16-foot building for an office for transfer station attendants and to install a 12- by 40-foot concrete pad for the building, as well as a new trash compactor, to set on. The former building was destroyed in a fire.

The bids submitted were:

--Livermore Concrete LLC, $13,696, base price and with steel plate option, $15,296

--W.S. Builders, $23,868.79, base price, and with steel plate option, $24,368.79

--J.L. Henry Excavation & Landscaping, $15,150, base price, with plate option, $16,150

--Chretien's Construction, $17,500, base price, no plate option submitted

--Restorations Home Remodeling, $14,890, base price, with steel plating, $15,990.

The bids were sent Tuesday to be reviewed by code enforcement officer Richard Marble, Schaub said.

Marble's recommendation is to go with low bidder, Livermore Concrete, he said.

The selectpersons also voted not to pursue any action regarding a subdivision plan that was never filed by a deceased property owner, Schaub said. The subdivision was created accidentally by that person after a third lot was sold and triggered the plan requirement. The widow is trying to sell the property and couldn't sell it if the board hadn't agreed to take no action on the sale, he said.

The board also gave a Goding Road property owner until Nov. 20 to fix a drainage problem on her property and to prevent the water from running onto the road, Schaub said.