MEXICO — Selectmen will take comment on two issues at a public hearing Wednesday night: a $2.9 million roads bond and a question on whether to sell the former SAD 43 superintendent's office next to the Mexico Recreation Center on Parker Street.

The hearing will begin at 6 p.m. at the Town Office.

The public hearing is required before these issues appear on the Nov. 3 ballot, according to First Selectman Barbara Laramee.

In the months leading up to Wednesday's hearing, the Board of Selectmen discussed various alternative uses for the school building before deciding to ask voters for permission to sell it. The alternative would be to keep the building as part of the town's assets. The school district no longer needs the building because the administration merged with neighboring former SAD 21 in Dixfield and SAD 39 in Buckfield to form the Western Foothills School District, housed in the central office in Dixfield.

The proposed roads bond issue is the result of an increasing number of town-maintained roads that need work and not enough money being put into the road account each year. The public hearing will be used, Laramee said, to establish voter consensus on road spending. If approved, a low interest rate would be set and specific road work would be prioritized.

The public hearing will be immediately followed by a regular selectmen's meeting, set for 6:30 p.m.