HANOVER – Selectman Bruce Powell announced Tuesday night that the board will go door-to-door if necessary to find up to nine people willing to serve on a Comprehensive Plan Committee.

Powell was one of more than a dozen municipal officials who attended a workshop earlier in the week sponsored by the River Valley Growth Council and Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments on the importance of each town’s adopting a plan.

“We’ll get two or three people together and just ask,” he said.

Hanover, a town of about 250 people, has tried to find volunteers to sit on a Comprehensive Plan Committee for more than a year.

Powell said he hopes to find a cross-section of people willing to serve on the committee that would update the town’s 15-year-old plan.

He said the town would likely be interested in a variety of comprehensive plan sections, such as sharing a code enforcement officer, subdivision regulations, economic development, building codes, and possibly regionalizing some services.

Having a plan also improves towns’ changes of receiving grants.

“We need to stay on top of this and it should be our next major campaign,” he said.

Bob Fortin, a Hanover member of the Tri-Town Solid Waste Committee, plans to attend another similar workshop in Bethel early next month.

A comprehensive plan, among other purposes, generally provides guidelines for a town’s future.

In other matters at the monthly selectmen’s meeting, Fortin said the amount of recyclables taken to the regional solid waste and recycling center in Bethel are up $22,000 over last year’s figure.