TOPSHAM

The Board of Selectmen is scheduled to meet today to consider awarding bids and appointing individuals to municipal committees.

The meeting will start at 7 p.m. at the municipal building, 100 Main St.

One of the first items of business selectmen will consider is a 10-year license agreement with FPL Energy Maine Hydro LLC to allow the town to construct a pedestrian walkway from the Swinging Bridge to Summer Street as part of the Riverwalk project.

Selectmen also will consider action on the bids for road milling and paving of town roads. Town officials opened the bids on July 3.

Scheduled for paving this season are Foreside Road from Pleasant Point Road to Philippon Drive, Jeanne Drive, Perkins and Wilson streets.

Wilson Street is scheduled to have 3,700 square yards of milling work done before paving. Harry C. Crooker and Sons bid $78 per ton for paving and $3.18 per square yard for milling; Pike Industries bid $99.50 per ton for paving and $3.50 per square yard for milling; and White Bros., a division of Lane Construction, bid $93.69 per ton for paving and $2.80 per square yard for milling. Because paving is the most significant cost, Public Works Director Dennis Cox recommends that the town accept the Harry C. Crooker and Sons bid.

The Board of Selectmen also will consider bids for a police cruiser and for a heavy duty mower for the public works department. Cox recommended an Exmark Heavy Duty 52-inch deck mower from Chad Little for $8,800.

In other business, the Board of Selectmen will consider reappointing Helen Kincaid to the Topsham Housing Authority and Bruce Van Note to the Planning Board. There are two openings on both committees.

John Shattuck, the town’s economic and community development director, and Steve Edmondson, co-chairman of the Topsham 250 Celebration Committee, are scheduled to update selectmen on their work.