BOWDOIN

Bowdoin will hold a special town meeting Monday night to correct an oversight that occurred at the annual town meeting in March when residents voted on purchase of a new fire truck.

Carol Laverdiere, the town’s administrative secretary, said the special town meeting is a formality in response to a technicality. When residents in March voted to raise money for a new fire truck, the warrant article should have contained a financial statement.

“We we’re doing it over,” she said.

The special town meeting to vote again on the fire truck article will start at 6:35 p.m. on Monday at the beginning of the Board of Selectmen’s meeting at the town office.

On March 12 the crowd gathered at Bowdoin Central School voted unanimously to spend $325,000 on a new fire truck. Bowdoin Fire Chief Tom Garrepy said the purchase would not affect the tax rate. The plan was to use $225,000 in the fire department’s capital account to pay for the truck, and the town would finance the additional $100,000 over five years.

The truck is to replace town’s nearly 30-year-old tanker that has nearly 120,000 miles on it.

Laverdiere said it was the attorney for the bank the town is working to get the loan through that caught the oversight.

dmoore@timesrecord.com