DURHAM – Selectmen have voted 4-1 not to endorse a petition to impose a 10-horsepower limit for motors used on watercraft on Runaround Pond. Daryl Pratt was opposed.

Pratt, who said earlier he favored prohibiting all motors on the pond, told selectmen that 76 signatures have been collected.

It is expected the petition drive, which is supported by the Conservation Commission, will continue even without the selectmen’s endorsement. The petition will be submitted to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

Approved was the new firetruck purchase contract with a revised payment schedule stipulating that $124,499.99 will be due at the time the chassis is delivered to Emergency Vehicles of Maine; and the remaining $124,499.99 will be due when the truck is delivered to and accepted by the town. The total cost of the new truck is $249,999.98.

The Fire Department has received notification of a $32,560 federal grant. The funds are earmarked to purchase pagers, a server, work station and software.

No local match is required for the funds, Fire Chief Bill St. Michel said, “In fact, we will never receive these funds. We are authorized to make the purchases as requested and forward the invoices to the Androscoggin County Emergency Management Agency for payment.”

The grant will pay for 45 pagers at $16,875; a server and a work station, $8,415; IMC software, $7,000; and radio programming, $270, for a total of $32,560.

In other business, selectmen took no action on regionalizing assessing services after a discussion with Robert Konczal, Freeport’s assessor offering Durham assessing services. Noting that in view of the governor’s push for regionalization of services, Konczal said Freeport is now discussing sharing assessing services with neighboring communities. He has already met with Pownal officials.

Selectmen agreed, for the second year, to a request by Angie Miller to operate a farmer’s market in the Eureka Community Center parking lot at the intersection of routes 9 and 136 beginning April 29.

Miller said they would have a new sales cart this year and will be at the site from 1 to 6 p.m. each Thursday and 9 a.m. through 2 p.m. each Saturday.