CANTON – Although the Board of Selectmen had no quorum Tuesday night, the selectmen who were present heard an update from special projects Chairman Diane Ray.

The Special Projects Committee is recommending that the town apply for a $10,000 Community Development Block Grant. The application deadline is the end of July, and the committee will hold a public meeting on the grant at 8:30 a.m. July 24.

Ray also said that comprehension plan implementation grants of $10,000 to $15,000 will be available the first of the year. The committee is seeking Rural Development Grants as well.

The committee has begun talks with real estate agents, appraisers, banks and lawyers to select participants in the relocation buyout.

Selectmen asked who would own the property after the buyout; Ray said the town would own the property, which could be used for agriculture, recreation or anything else that did not have potential for insurance claims.

The committee is also seeking names of building demolition contractors.

The buyout relocation process is scheduled to start in early September.

In other business, Planning Board Chairman Rick Ray updated the board on a situation on School Street. A tenant there asked why the code enforcement officer had stopped a work order on her rental house repairs.

Ray told her that because she was in the flood plain, she needed a permit and she had not applied. He also informed her that the owner must apply.

A trailer, which is occupied, has been moved onto the property. Ray told her the trailer must be removed until a Department of Environmental Protection permit is secured for placing the 8 feet of fill that the trailer will rest on.

Selectman Danny Hutchins thanked the volunteers who had saved Canton thousands of dollars by distributing and compacting fill donated by George Spear for the new fire station area.