PARIS – Selectmen will review the minutes and possibly a videotape of the June 19 town meeting to try to clear up confusion about a vote not to fund renovation of the former fire station on Pine Street.

After voting not to authorize a $70,000 bond to fund conversion of the former fire station to a police station, voters were asked to appropriate $17,000 toward payment of that bond. The article was amended to ask for the appropriation of $17,000 from taxes, and an additional $53,000 from the general fund, toward renovation of the building. That article was also defeated.

Selectmen question whether the amendment and vote were done properly, saying that several people approached them after the meeting to ask for clarification on the article.

“I think there was so much confusion with people between the amendment, the article, the amendment, and the discussion of how much money would come from where. People just got confused,” Selectman Bruce Hanson said. “I think we need to look at that and see if there was a discrepency.”

Board Chairman Gerald Kilgore asked what would happen if there was an error in the way the vote was taken.

“I’ll have to check with Betty [Larson] before I can really tell you,” said Town Manager Stephen McAllister, referring to the town clerk.

In other business, McAllister said he would present possible solutions to the town’s office space problem at the next selectmen’s meeting. At the town meeting, he had explained to voters that both the police station and the town office need more space. Had voters approved moving the police station to the former fire station, the town office would have been able to expand into the police station.

The question of what to do with the former fire station remains. Selectman Bill Merrill and Barbara Payne were part of the committee that looked for possible uses for the building after the town voted not to sell it. The Police Department was the only organization which expressed an interest in moving into the building.

Merrill and Payne agreed that the committee would be willing to continue to look for a use for the building. Payne said the town should hold a public meeting to look for new ideas.

Selectmen did not agree to hold a special meeting but asked instead that anyone who would like to discuss the building call Payne, Merrill, or another member of the fire station committee.