OXFORD – Voters will be asked again to buy a pumper truck for the Fire Department.

Only this time, the price tag has dropped more than $200,000.

Voters at the June town meeting rejected borrowing $300,000 to buy a new truck to replace Engine 4, a 1975 pumper with a rebuilt engine.

Recently, Engine 4 failed to pass inspection and was taken out of service. The town has two other pumper trucks, but only one of them has enough water capacity to fight a major structure fire.

At Thursday’s selectmen’s meeting, Fire Chief Fred Knightly showed selectmen specifications for a used 1995 pumper truck with a 1,000-gallon tank for $127,500. He didn’t know how many miles were on it, but said it had been used in city firefighting.

Knightly said there is $45,000 in the firetruck reserve account that could be applied to the cost. The balance would be $82,500 to be raised by taxes.

“The only thing we got to think about is, this one is a 1995 truck,” Knightly said.

Selectmen looked at pictures of the truck, which would come from a firetruck business in Alabama, and agreed that the truck appeared to be in very good shape.

Interim Town Manager Sharon Jackson said Friday she still needed to check on whether a meeting of the budget committee should be called before the purchase goes before voters.

A special town meeting has been called for 6:30 p.m. Aug. 19 in the Oxford Public Safety Building on Route 26 to vote on a flood plain ordinance. The firetruck purchase could come up then, she said.

In other business, selectmen agreed to repave Allen Hill Road, Gore Road, and part of the Number Six Road this year for $143,000.

They also completed a $755,195 contract with Tom Gibson of Rampart Bituminous of Portland to reconstruct Robinson Hill and Tiger Hill roads. Gibson will also do the repaving work.

Gibson said work will start next week on Gore Road, followed by Allen Hill Road.

Selectmen also agreed with a recommendation by the Economic Development Committee to apply $2,000 toward the effort to redevelop the Robinson Manufacturing Co. woolen mill if efforts to obtain a $10,000 planning grant from the state are successful.