The Gorham Town Council met in executive session Tuesday to discuss the town’s litigation with Plan-It-Recycling.

Last year, the town claimed the company’s facility located in the Gorham Industrial Park had violated town rules concerning piles of recyclable material and filed for court intervention. Earlier this year, a judge temporarily stopped the company from accepting new material at its Gorham facility following complaints by the town and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

“At this point the issue is still in mediation,” Gorham Town Manager David Cole said early Tuesday before the council meeting.

Gorham councilors also had met on July 19 with town attorney William Dale in executive session to discuss the case.

In other matters, the Gorham Town Council unanimously approved appropriating $20,000 in a request from Presumpscot Regional Land Trust to support administrative and transaction costs associated with acquiring a conservation easement on a farm straddling the Gorham-Standish border.

Mike Parker of the land trust said 150 acres of the 500-acre Randall Orchards is in Gorham. Parker, a former member of the Gorham Planning Board, said the purpose of the easement is to preserve the property. Parker said the owner could sell the property but it could not be developed.

The appropriation will come from the town’s Open Space Impact Fee account.

Town Councilor Philip Gagnon thanked the land trust.

“The work you do is very important to the people of the town,” Gagnon said.

The council also unanimously agreed to sign an agreement with the Maine Department of Transportation and the Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation System for the town to share in costs of resurfacing about one-third mile of New Portland Road beginning at Main Street.

The project is estimated to cost $256,210 but Gorham’s share will be 25 percent of the first $15,000 and 10 percent of all other project costs under an offer to sign before Sept. 1. The range of the local share is usually up to 30 percent.

The council also approved refinancing a $1.3 million bond in 2000 to build the Public Works Department facility off Huston Road. The council authorized borrowing up to $585,000 under a refinancing plan and Cole said the refinancing would save the town an estimated $93,000.