Frenchville returns two to SAD 33 board

FRENCHVILLE — Frenchville voters elected four officials Tuesday and approved $218,086 in expenditures from property taxes for 1994.

Manzer Belanger and Percy Thibeault were unopposed for their re-election to three-year terms on the board of directors of SAD 33. Claude Bourgoin and Gary Thibeault were re-elected to three-year terms on the Frenchville Board of Selectmen with 76 and 87 votes, respectively. Emma Underhill had 68 votes in her unsuccessful effort to unseat one of the two incumbents.

Michael Paradis and Manzer Belanger were elected to three-year terms on the town’s Budget Committee. Euclide Bourgoin was moderator of the 75-minute town meeting.

Town Manager Philip Levesque said voters approved $508,636 for the 1994 municipal budget. Of that amount, $93,500 will come from municipal sewer users, $10,000 will come from interest income, $90,000 from state revenue sharing, $125,000 from excise tax collections, $75,000 from unappropriated money and $218,086 from property taxes.

Approved expenditures do not include the town’s share of the SAD 33 budget and the Aroostook County budget.

New in the budget was the purchase of a 10-wheeler truck with a snowplow at a cost of $75,000 and $5,000 to raise manholes along a section of Route 1 that will be reconstructed during the summer. The town’s last $12,500 payment for a community center built six years ago was approved and $10,000 was added to a fund for the future construction of a sand and salt shed for the public works department.

Voters also approved the $93,500 budget for the Frenchville Sewer Department. That budget is paid for by users of the system.