PARIS – Selectmen agreed Monday to consider matching employees’ contributions to a health savings benefits plan.

Police Department employees were given the benefit as part of recently completed contract negotiations with the police union. Town Manager Steve McAlister wanted to know if selectmen wanted to extend the benefit to all town employees.

All of the town office employees have expressed an interest, he said.

The cost to the town, if all non-Police Department employees took the benefit, would be a maximum of $15,000, said McAlister. The money would have to be approved at a special town meeting.

The health savings benefit plan allows employees to set aside as much as $10 a week, or $520 a year, toward health insurance deductible costs and other health-related expenses. The town would match the savings, dollar for dollar.

McAlister said a special town meeting needs to be held in any case, in order to raise the $5,000 for insurance and basic upkeep on the old Paris Fire Station. No funds for insurance on the building were provided at the June town meeting, when voters turned down a plan to have the building renovated for use by the Paris Police Department.

Selectmen have questioned the legality of the June vote, and have ordered McAlister to review a video of the meeting to see if there was a motion left on the floor that was not acted upon. If so, some selectmen believe the vote would need to be revisited at the special town meeting. A date for the meeting has not been set.

Selectmen also agreed to establish a water business study committee to explore the feasibility of bottling and selling a portion of the town’s public water supply. All agreed that the committee should include citizens as well as selectmen, and hopefully include people who have some expertise in the bottled water field.

Selectman William Merrill was elected chairman for the coming year, and Bruce Hanson was elected vice chairman.