LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen voted Monday to pay a $100 stipend a week to the sewer clerk/town office assistant for work to cover some of the treasurer’s duties while Treasurer Kristal Flagg is interim town manager.

Sue Sapiel works as sewer clerk and also assists with municipal tasks, and now is helping Flagg, the town clerk, with clerk and treasurer’ duties. The stipend will end on June 30.

Flagg will become full-time town manager on July 1 with a salary of $53,000. Until then, Flagg is being paid $500 a week on top of her treasurer/town clerk wages to do the multiple jobs.

Former Town Manager Jim Chaousis left in November 2010 for another management job in Boothbay.

In other business on Monday, Flagg told selectmen there is about $24,000 left in a Community Development Block Grant that was used to improve the exteriors of several businesses.

Now, the town can only use the leftover money for something outside such as signage in the outlined grant district, which is located downtown.

Both selectmen and Flagg previously said the money for the benches bought in 2010 was to come from the leftover grant funds.

“It didn’t,” Flagg said. She is looking into what account the money to pay for the benches came from.

Chaousis was in charge of the project.

The benches that were custom built were moved down to the recreation field and along the walk/bike path after residents complained about their appearance.

A Facade Committee that worked on oversight of the $150,000 grant agreed last year to turn any leftover funds from that grant to the town. Otherwise, the money would have to be returned to the grant program.

Chaousis said then that the money could be used for streetscape improvements in the targeted area including benches, tree-planting, signs, pedestrian walkways and sidewalks in the targeted area. The grant closed on June 30, 2010.

Flagg said she has until mid-May to get whatever is to be done finished and the bills paid.

Resident Ron Chadwick suggested signs be made to direct visitors to the Police Department, Town Office and other places of interest.

Resident John Ross suggested putting up more Business District signs since there is only one now.

Select board Chairman Bill Demaray suggested that some bushes be put in where the brick wall had been near the town office. The wall was torn down last year after a car drove into it and knocked most of it down.

Flagg said she will look into the options and try to get projects completed and the money spent.

In another matter, Demaray clarified that if any of the board or committee members who are required to go to training from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, March 28, at the town office have a legitimate excuse not to attend, they should tell the board.

The training on members’ powers and duties will be conducted by a town attorney and will cover powers and duties among other topics. But if there is a legitimate excuse for not attending, Demaray said, the board may not ask for a resignation from those who do not attend.

The board also voted to allow local school tennis teams to use the tennis courts for a couple of hours after school.

dperry@sunjournal.com