FARMINGTON – Selectmen will consider amendments to the town’s banner policy at their meeting Tuesday. They will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Town Office.

The new policy was adopted last year because of a proliferation of banners in town.

“They were popping up all over town,” said Town Manager Richard Davis.

Selectmen wrote a policy that puts time and space restrictions on banner placement. There are now three approved locations for banners, where poles were erected especially for the purpose. The three approved locales are at Routes 4 and 43, at Farmington Falls Road and High Street, and on Route 2 near Philbrick Park.

Other restrictions are as follows:

• Banners must be scheduled in advance with the town clerk. They will be permitted on a first-come, first-served basis. Currently, all three locations are booked through the end of October, said Davis.

• Only nonprofit organizations advertising events of community interest will be permitted to hang banners.

• Banners are to be nonpolitical and nonreligious

• Only two banners will be allowed to hang at one time in any one location between Dec. 1 and April 1, only three the remainder of the year.

• Banners can be no larger than 16 square feet, must be secured at all times and must be free of rips or tears.

Prompted by the recent concern over the town’s political sign ordinance, all sign policies were reviewed. Selectmen will discuss an amendment to the banner policy to put a time limit on their display. The amendment would allow banners to be displayed not more than 21 days before its advertised event, and they would need to be removed within 24 hours after the event concludes.

Other items on the meeting agenda include the expected approval for the purchase of several items for the Police Department with funds from a $27,000 Homeland Security grant. Five radio repeaters for police vehicles to enhance communications, a camcorder and a bullhorn are among the items on the list prepared by Chief Richard Caton III.

Selectmen will also accept a donation from Wal-Mart for police equipment and will turn over $40,000 to MBTV, the local public access television station, from revenues collected from cable television subscribers.

A hearing on amendments to shoreland zoning along Wilson Stream, critical to a proposed shopping center at Knowlton Corner Road and Route 4, has been postponed until Oct. 26.