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Read Article JAY — The Select Board will hold a public hearing May 10 on sewer rates before setting the rate for 2021-22 that would go into effect July 1. The hearing will be held at 6 p.m. at Spruce Mountain Elementary School gym. It will be followed by a regular selectpersons’ meeting. The sewer bill year runs from July 1 to June 30, 2022. Related Since then the board has worked to gradually increase the rate to cover 100% of the operation and maintenance of the Jay Sewer Department. The debt service for the department is paid through general taxation. Currently, any operation and main...

Holt will remain an employee of Jay and will report to the town manager of Livermore Falls. He will spend 10% of his time on the Jay collection system, 10% on the Livermore Falls collection system and 80% overseeing the wastewater treatment plant. Each town would be responsible to pay its 10% share. The 80% would be paid based on the sewage flow formula. This year’s flow rate is Jay, 58.2% and Livermore Falls, 41.8%. The percentage of the flow formula is expected to rise on Jay’s side because all of that town’s sewage is now going to Livermore Falls to be treated. Jay would pay his sala...

Read Article JAY — Selectpersons accepted the highest bid on Monday for a tax-acquired property and agreed to purchase four pumps to upgrade sewer pumping stations. Frank Rangel of Jay submitted the highest of two bids for a foreclosed single residence house and property at 2 Otis St. The lower bid was for $12,500 submitted by a Lewiston resident. The town put a minimum bid on the property of $10,000 to cover the town’s interest in it. The board also voted to upgrade four sewer pumping stations using Gorman Rupp self-priming pumps, the same brand pumps that were installed 25 years ago, a...

JAY — Selectpersons voted unanimously Monday to accept an agreement to share a sewer superintendent with Livermore Falls. Jay Superintendent Mark Holt will oversee both towns’ sewer employees, collections systems and operation of the Livermore Falls’ Wastewater Treatment Plant. Livermore Falls approved the measure Thursday by a 4-1 vote. The Jay board also voted to authorize Town Manager Shiloh LaFreniere to sign the contract. A joint sewer committee made up of Jay and Livermore Falls town officials have been reviewing ways to find efficiencies for about a year. There are two sewer supe...

Read Article LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen voted 4-1 Thursday to accept an agreement for Jay’s sewer superintendent to oversee both towns’ sewer employees, collections systems and operation of the Livermore Falls’ wastewater treatment plant. Livermore Falls Selectman Ernie Souther, right, was the lone dissenter on a contract to share the Jay sewer superintendent on Thursday night. Selectman Chairman Jeff Bryant, left, listens to Souther read parts agreement he didn’t like. Donna M. Perry/Sun Journal Jay selectpersons will take up the agreement at 6 p.m. Monday at the Spruce Element...