GREENWOOD – Selectmen approved putting a recall ordinance on the town warrant on Tuesday that may be used to remove a selectman if needed.

Town Manager Carol Whitman began explaining to selectmen that she has been receiving complaints concerning one of them since the summer and did not know what to do.

She said she called the Maine Municipal Association and a representative said that the town needed to have a recall ordinance in place to remove a selectman.

“Is this because of me?” Ivan Roberts asked Whitman.

She acknowledged that it was.

Whitman told Roberts that people said they were scared and worried he may cause trouble.

“People are getting upset,” Whitman said.

Roberts said he thought it was a good idea to have it and made the motion that selectmen allow a recall ordinance to be put on the warrant for town meeting.

“He means well, but he doesn’t come at you right,” Whitman said after the meeting. “He has very good intentions and is very fast to act, perhaps too quick to act without research.”

In other business, selectmen were pleased to receive an offer to purchase about 84 acres of land off the Greenwood Road owned by Margaret Ring.

She said she would sell the land to the town for $200 per acre with stipulations that it must be kept pristine; it must be used as a hiking park; and no motorized vehicles would be allowed.

She also suggested that she hoped there would be some picnic tables, a few benches and maybe a kiosk.

Selectmen agreed more research into the purchase was needed before bringing the matter to town meeting.

Selectmen also accepted a bid from Andre’s Construction, Bethel, for $117,000 to build a new sluice gate and build up berms at the Alder River Dam and lengthen the bridge crossing it.

Andre’s Construction had installed the coffer dam last fall.

Bancroft Contracting Corp., which reconstructed the sluice way, bid $123,500 for the work.

Selectmen and Susan Gordon reached agreement on the surveyor’s plotting of her property and property the town acquired from her son Peter Gordon through non-payment of taxes.

The new map has to be recorded to be official. The accepted configuration leaves the town with about 34 acres and Susan Gordon with 2.2 acres.

The town must now plan to remove about 100 cars left on the property before it was acquired.

Selectmen also approved a May deadline for Malcolm McLean to clean his property that had been deemed a junkyard.

They also learned that a motion to dismiss a summons issued to Douglas Grover, for inaction in cleaning his property designated a junkyard, was not granted by a judge.

Whitman said Grover now has 20 days to file a letter answering the one the town attorney had filed ordering him to clean his yard.

Selectmen were also told that the state said ordinance standards concerning subdivisions and non-developed property had to be in place and some minor language changes had to be made to the Comprehensive Plan.

These changes will go to town meeting and if approved they will be sent back to state for final approval.

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