OTISFIELD – The people said they want road striping, presented a petition to the Board of Selectmen during their meeting Wednesday night and now it will go to the voters.

During a board meeting two weeks ago, selectmen took no action on the request and suggested it should be presented to voters during town meeting.

The petition presented calls for striping for a list of roads. Board members reviewed cost estimates for one stripe on roads and decided to include raising $3,000 from taxes to stripe all public roads in the community.

Cost estimates are $117 per mile. Selectman Assistant Marianne Izzo-Morin noted there are approximately 30 miles of road in town. It would cost approximately $3,510 to paint one stripe on the roads.

Fire Chief Garry Dyer also met with the selectmen to place an article on the town meeting warrant. He informed the board the Fire Department applied for a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant in April. If approved, the department will get $59,762.45 in funds for turnout gear, radios and an exhaust fan. Under the grant, the community needs to fund a 10 percent matching share of $5,976.25.

Voters will have a chance to act on the road striping article and the matching funds for the grant during a special town meeting slated for 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 26, in Community Hall.

In other business, the board approved a Plant-A-Buffer Project for sixth-graders in Otisfield Community School. Sixth-grade teacher Ruth Wilson presented the request to the selectmen.

Students plan to plant 20 seedlings at Pleasant Lake town beach during the first two weeks of June. The project is sponsored by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and AmeriCorps in cooperation with the National Tree Trust.

Wilson said her students have been learning about the water cycle, watersheds and how to protect waterways and ground water.

“We feel that by planting tree seedlings at the Pleasant Lake town beach we can help reduce the runoff of dirt and debris into the lake and keep it healthy,” Wilson wrote in a letter she presented to the board.

The seedlings to be planted are green ash, sugar maple and white spruce.

The school has agreed to monitor the tree growth over the next two years, Wilson noted.

The plantings will be supervised by AmeriCorps volunteer Shauna Little, who has been assisting the class in its water studies. AmeriCorps is providing all tools, seedlings and mulch required for the project.

“Each of us will get to plant our own tree and we can watch it grow over the years,” Wilson said. There are 19 students in the sixth-grade class.