GREENWOOD – Selectmen learned Tuesday that an oral agreement between the town attorney and a junkyard owner had be reached and a written one was in the mail.

Lawyer Alan J. Perry sent a letter to Malcolm McLean Jr., outlining the steps he needs to take to come into compliance with state automobile graveyard laws.

The agreement calls for McLean to:

• Construct stockade 6-feet fence, starting one foot off the ground.

• Store no more than six uninspected or unregistered vehicles in his fenced area.

• Have no more than two unregistered or uninspected vehicles outside the fence for sale.

• Store any excess vehicles in an existing building or dispose of them.

• Reimburse the town for attorney’s fees up to Oct. 3.

According to Town Manager Carol Whitman, Greenwood has been discussing cleanup with McLean for about a year.

The agreement was altered to let McLean qualify under the classical vehicles provision of the law.

Selectman Ivan Roberts also requested that appointments be set up with Douglas Grover and Norman Millett to review their junkyards and see how their cleanups are progressing. Whitman said both men have been complying, but progress has been slow.

Grover’s junkyard is on Rowe Hill Road and Millett’s junkyard is on Greenwood Road.

“We know that they will have to wait until the mud is gone to remove some of the cars,” Whitman said. “You just have to keep after them or you’re not going to get results.”

In other business:

• Fred Henderson was re-elected as board chairman.

• Selectmen accepted a proposal by Jeff Gaudreau of Gaudreau’s Repair in Bethel to remove about 140 junk cars left on property formerly owned by Peter Gordon for no charge. The town acquired the 34-acre Gordon property for non-payment of taxes.

Selectmen were also told in a letter from the town attorney that a trailer owned by Peter Gordon Jr., sitting on the land should be moved.

“His father gave him a piece of property several years ago, but it was never deeded over,” Whitman said.

• Cinnamon Stick Cafe on Route 26 was awarded a liquor license.

• Selectmen set a meeting for the town manager hiring committee for 4 p.m. April 13 in the town office.

Whitman also told selectmen that a special town meeting would be in order soon to accept the purchase of property offered to the town by Margaret Ring and to approve the sale of two pieces of property to David Duguay.

The lots sought by Duguay are in the vicinity of Mount Abram Family Ski Resort. Whitman said he had purchased 23 lots in 2002 and two lots were inadvertently omitted by the bank. The bank owned the property because of a foreclosure on Steamship Navigation, former owner of the ski resort.