OXFORD – Voters approved a $10,000 Community Development Block Grant Thursday to study redevelopment of the vacant Robinson Manufacturing Co. woolen mill.

At the selectmen’s meeting that followed, selectmen appointed a 30-year mill worker, George Gilman, to serve on the CDBG Committee overseeing the redevelopment plan.

They also appointed Archie MacDonald to the committee. Other members are mill owner John Robinson, Town Manager Michael Chammings, Head Selectman Floyd Thayer, Caldwell Jackson, Ron Kugell and Tom Kennison.

Chammings said the first organizational meeting of the committee will be scheduled in the next couple of weeks.

Chammings also reported on upcoming changes proposed to the way the town handles automatic foreclosures. He said there’s a need to look ahead before they happen. That way, he said, if the town would face a legal liability in taking over the property, the automatic foreclosure could be waived.

Fine-tuning is also needed with regard to the process under which the town would turn a property back to the original owner once an automatic foreclosure has taken place, he said.

Selectmen approved a purchase and sales agreement with Paula Pelletier so she could buy back a Station Road property that had been through automatic foreclosure.

Abatements were granted to two properties that were incorrectly assessed.

Chammings also reported that the town is looking into providing a small water line to the cemetery on King Street.

The town has had land donated to the cemetery, so there is room for more plots, he said.

The board also accepted a $500 grant from Wal-Mart for the police department’s Safe Neighborhood Grant account.