Motion to restore on-call wage for B'field Rescue fails

BUCKFIELD —  A motion to restore money to establish a $2 per-hour on-call rate for Buckfield Rescue volunteers failed to move forward during the selectmen's meeting May 7.

Rescue Chief Lisa Buck included an additional $10,000 in the department's budget to cover the wage increase.

The municipal budgets proposed by both selectmen and the budget committee, however, cut the on-call wage proposal, part of an effort to create a flat, zero tax increase budget for 2014.

B'field board OKs new appointment policy

BUCKFIELD —  Revisions to the town's policy for committee and board appointments that requires applicants to appear before selectmen during a regular meeting, prior to their approval, was adopted by the board of selectmen during its meeting May 7.

Prior to the adoption of the uniform policy, attendance at the board meeting in which the applicant's appointment would be discussed was required for some town committees but not others.

Status of Goodrich Rd. to be determined

HEBRON —  A resident who plans to erect a fence to secure his cows on his property asked selectmen at their meeting Monday about the status of Goodrich Road, to determine where to build the fence without impeding on public property.

Aaron Geyer said Monday that a town tax map and a private survey of his property, given to selectmen for review, are "very different" from one another. 

Selectman Dan Eichorn told Geyer the tax maps are intended for the town to keep track of taxes and are not a "100 percent accurate geographic representation." 

Paris board approves town meeting warrant

PARIS — Board members approved nearly all the 31 articles included on the annual town meeting warrant during its meeting Monday.

The warrant includes 12 money articles, that work out to a nearly $4.1 million municipal budget, around $51,000 larger than last year. Including payments to SAD 17 and Oxford County, next year's budget is $6.96 million.