OXFORD – The town’s public safety building on Route 26 will serve as the official polling place for voting on state referendum items next week.

Voters are accustomed to casting their ballots at the town hall in Oxford Village. Town officials decided the public safety building might work better because there’s more parking available there, said Town Manager Mike Huston.

“We think it’s going to work well,” he said, as long as residents are aware of the change and don’t go to the town hall by mistake.

The polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday. Voters face six state referendum questions and a local one, asking if SAD 17 should spend up to $80,000 to buy land on High Street in Paris for a new elementary school.

In other matters, selectmen named Freightliner of Maine Inc. of Auburn to supply the town with a new dump truck for winter snow plowing and summer road maintenance.

Freightliner’s bid for the truck was $35,611, not including equipment. The town will trade in its 1990 International dump truck.

Equipment will include a dump body, plow, plow frame, lights and other needs.

Voters last month approved taking up to $75,000 from the non-designated reserve account and put it toward the truck. Money will also be drawn from the highway equipment reserve account, said Huston, which has around $60,000.

He said the total cost for the truck and equipment will be around $110,000.

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