POLAND – The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday night to appoint George Greenwood as an alternate member of the Planning Board.

The alternate will be responsible for following all Planning Board business, voting on matters when a regular board member is absent and filling a vacant seat on the board should one of its regular members resign.

Greenwood, 57, is the owner of Remax River Cities real estate company in Auburn. “A lot of what I do ties into the Planning Board’s work,” he said.

“Hopefully I can be of some service to the town.”

Greenwood moved to Poland in 1999 from Lisbon. He currently lives on Thompson Lake.

In other business, selectmen heard from members of the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department and agreed to change the call numbers used to identify deputies covering Poland. The change means those deputies will no longer be called by Poland one, Poland two, and Poland three over the police radio, but instead by a random number. The change was requested to eliminate confusion among officers who work part-time for different departments and had to keep changing numbers or for those who work overtime in other sections of the county but kept the Poland call number.

Deputies also said the change would foil criminals who keep track of when the deputies covering Poland are on duty by listening to the police scanner, as the town only has an Androscoggin County deputy on patrol exclusively in Poland 16 hours a day.

Selectmen also voted to either sell or dispose of a 40-year-old International ladder firetruck. The truck has an estimated value of $2,000 but needs $1,000 worth of work to fix a broken cylinder.

And on the police side, selectmen voted to purchase a new Crown Victoria cruiser from Auburn Motor Sales. The car, which was part of a collective purchase with Lewiston and Auburn, will cost the town $20,408. The old cruiser, a 1999 model, will be sold to a South Boston dealer for $2,100.