NORWAY – Selectmen said Thursday night that they were pleased with how the annual town meeting went Monday.

“It was a very positive thing,” Selectman Robert Walker said.

Selectman Les Flanders said he has been approached by some of the 111 residents who attended the meeting and was congratulated on the professionalism with which the meeting was conducted.

The board said it regrets that some members of the Budget Committee feel their time on the committee was wasted.

None of the committee’s recommendations were accepted at the town meeting, although many would have saved the town money.

A member of the committee told residents at the town meeting that she felt the committee should not continue because of this.

Walker pointed out that the budget has been held in check by the close attention the Budget Committee, selectmen and town manager pay to it. Department heads don’t submit “grandiose budgets,” he said, largely because of those three forces working to keep the budget down.

In other business, Selectman George Tibbetts Jr. said the road crew working on Beal Street deserved to be commended.

“They’re doing a tremendous job, and they’re doing it fast and efficiently,” he said.

He also commented on the work Boomer’s Restaurant has done beside Route 117 along Norway Lake. The restaurant has put up a post-and-rail fence and planted trees along the road.

Town Manager David Holt reported that the Norway Paris Solid Waste is considering privatization.

Selectmen worried that a private company would not be as strict in enforcing recycling or prohibiting people from other towns from dumping their garbage.

Selectman William Damon asked Holt to report to the solid waste board that it is “seriously concerned about that consideration.”