WILTON – Officials accepted a proposal for a conditional gift of land when they met Tuesday. They voted unanimously against providing domestic partner health insurance.

Town Manager Peter Nielsen said the town discovered that about half of the town’s Little League baseball field in East Wilton was actually on private property. The owner of the property told the town he would trade that property for some help from the town in getting a house site started with enough gravel for a 50-foot driveway and a culvert.

Nielsen said the gravel will costs about $489 and the culvert about $250. In addition, surveying work to put up corner posts will not exceed $800. The total cost to the town will be less than $1,539. Officials signed an agreement to exchange the work for the property.

Selectmen decided against offering health insurance to domestic partners who are not legally married. Nielsen said some towns do offer such coverage. The town pays 70 percent of health insurance costs for full-time employees.

Nielsen said he spoke with Maine Municipal Association and was told municipalities can elect to offer such insurance by a vote of the town’s selectmen. He said as far as he knows there has been only one town employee interested in the coverage so far.

“I think it would set a dangerous precedent. I don’t agree with it,” Selectman Norman Gould said. The board unanimously agreed.

Officials heard a report from Code Enforcement Officer Brenda Medcoff concerning a violation on Route 2 the town received several complaints on. Medcoff said the debris resulted from a misunderstanding between herself and property owner Kimball Farrington about what he could place on his property. Medcoff said most of the debris has been removed and Farrington is in the process of removing the remaining debris.

Officials opened bids for reclaiming and paving, asphalt mulch, and a plow truck for the town’s highway department. They accepted the only asphalt mulch bid, which came from Commercial Paving for $26.45 per cubic yard for the asphalt and $15 per yard to lay it.

Nielsen and Road Commissioner Ken Vining will look over the road work and plow truck bids to make sure they meet required specifications and make a recommendation to officials at their next meeting.

Three bids came in for paving and reclaiming. A bid from Commercial Paving for reclaiming only totaled $8,051. Bids from Pike Industries and Bruce Manzer, Inc. totaled $121,085.80 and $111,670.90, respectively, for both reclaiming and paving.

The town received two bids for a plow truck. One was from Whitehead Ford for a total price of $61,915, after a trade-in value on the town’s 1993 GMC of $13,670. The second bid was from O’Connor Motors for $62,899, with a trade-in value on the town’s truck of $12,031.

Officials met with Wilton Fire Chief Fred Hyde and East Dixfield Fire Chief Randy Hall behind closed doors in an effort to improve cooperation between the two departments.

Officials acted on this year’s town appointments. There are still vacancies for an alternate on the town’s Planning Board and a member for the board of assessment review.