OXFORD – Selectmen on Thursday approved a $10,000 state grant to prepare a plan for redevelopment of the Robinson Manufacturing Co. woolen mill in the village.

There was no comment from the public at the public hearing, which is required prior to acceptance under the Community Development Block Grant program.

The $10,000 will be combined with $2,000 each from the town’s Economic Development Committee and the Robinson family to fund the study, which will include a look at ways the town could use the wastewater treatment facility at the mill.

Selectmen appointed six of seven members to the CDBG Committee that will oversee development of the plan. They are the new Town Manager, Michael Chammings, mill owner John Robinson, First Selectman Floyd Thayer, Caldwell Jackson, Ron Kugell and Tom Kennison.

A seventh person will be sought from among the ranks of retired mill workers.

The mill, which closed in July of 2003, is on four acres and includes frontage on Thompson Lake. The Robinson family is interested in developing housing units on the site.

In other business, selectmen recognized Sharon Jackson for her achievement in completing a municipal leadership program at the Edmund S. Muskie School for Municipal Leadership. Jackson, starting in January, attended a series of four two-day workshops at various locations around the state.

In response to a question from resident Adrien Giroux, Code Enforcement Officer Rodney Smith confirmed that he was addressing a problem on the Gore Road of an illegal junkyard.

“Is it being addressed as it would be with any citizen in town?” Giroux asked.

Smith said yes.

On Oct. 7, Smith wrote Selectman Dennis Sanborn of 321 Gore Road informing him he was operating a junkyard on his property without a permit. Last week he said that Sanborn “has started cleaning things up and it is looking a lot better already.”