FORT KENT — Just 24 hours after electing a new president, congressmen and state legislators, Fort Kent voters will turn to local business Wednesday night at a special town meeting to redistribute money approved earlier this year for solid-waste disposal.

At previous town meetings, voters approved $200,315 for solid waste disposal through the Northern Aroostook Regional Incinerator Facility at Frenchville.

At the time, the three-town organization was considering the purchase of a Lundell Waste Recycling unit. Voters had approved $86,645 as their share of the purchase, another $86,937 for the maintenance of the previous incinerator and $26,733 for related expenditures on machinery.

On July 30, the NARIF incinerator at Frenchville stopped burning solid waste. The end of the 10-year system was the result of a consent agreement between the three towns — Fort Kent, Frenchville, and Madawaska — and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Since the end of July, NARIF has been shipping its solid waste to the Tri-Community Landfill at Caribou under an 18-month contract.

The Fort Kent Town Council will ask voters Wednesday to transfer $125,269 of the $200,315 approved earlier to pay for solid-waste disposal for 1992.

Voters also will be asked to transfer $26,000 of the unexpended balance to pay for the removal of thousands of tires from Joe Charette’s Salvage Yard. Some tires were removed with $5,000 previously approved at a town meeting.

The large pile of tires has been in storage at Charette’s for several years. Removal of the pile would depend on whether voters approve the transfer of funds and would be done this fall or early spring.

Since July 28, Fort Kent has been storing used tires at the NARIF site at Frenchville. Residents have been told not to bring tires to Charette’s site.

Residents will be asked to transfer an additional $4,000 of the unexpended money to repair a struck scale near the town-owned packing house on Route 1 south of town. The scale would be used to weigh solid waste going from Fort Kent to NARIF and the Tri-Community Landfill.

After voting on the solid-waste articles, residents will decide whether to accept funds from the Maine Emergency Management Administration for repairs to the Riverside Park on the St. John River. The Federal Emergency Management Administration would pay the balance of the project.

The project would repair erosion damage to the bank and stabilize it against future damage. No monety amount was provided for the project.

Voters also will decide whether the town will accept $35,670 in state jobs-bond funding. The money would be used according to the requirements of the state highway block-grant program to repair town streets and roads.

New garage doors and openers for the Fort Kent Fire Station also are on the warrant for the special town meeting. The $2,480 for the project would come from supplemental taxes received in 1992. That money was not appropriated at previous town meetings.

Voters will be asked to transfer $13,788 from the town’s fund balance to cover an overdraft in discount on the early payment of 1992 property taxes.

At the March town meeting, voters agreed to pay a discount on early payments of property taxes. However, they failed to raise any money to pay for the discounts because they hoped that interest paid on tax money would pay for the discounts. Town councilors cannot arbitrarily transfer money without voter approval.

The special town meeting will be at Community High School’s gymnasium at Fort Kent at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4.