OTISFIELD – Selectmen discussed bids for the town’s new salt storage shed at their Wednesday meeting. Three bids had been opened at their last meeting, each more than double the $25,000 budgeted for the project.

A new bid from JD Concrete would build only the walls for $16,000. Although the bid was within the budget, it didn’t meet the specifications set when the project was put out to bid. Selectmen weren’t sure they could legally accept the newest bid, without putting the project back out to bid with new specifications.

“If we put it out to bid (again), we’re not going to get it done this winter,” Selectman Tom Nurmi said.

The board decided to contact the three original bidders to inform them of the new specifications and also to check on the legality of the issue with the Maine Municipal Association.

Selectman Mark Cyr worried that it would be too cold to work with cement if the decision is left until the board’s Oct. 20 meeting. If necessary, an emergency selectmen’s meeting to discuss the bids will be held next week after board Cairman Lenny Adler returns from vacation. Adler wasn’t present at Wednesday’s meeting.

In other business, Jim Bishop invited selectmen to tour the Youth Conservation Corps construction sites on Thompson Lake.

“The town is a key investor in the project,” Bishop said, adding that someone from the board should see “what the kids do during the summer and what it means to the lake and the people who live on it.”

The free tour of erosion control projects on the lake is open to the public. It will begin at the Thompson Lake Environmental Association office at 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 16.

The town is still seeking volunteers to serve on its Ordinance Committee.