OTISFIELD – Selectman Thomas Nurmi reported Wednesday that work on the town’s salt storage shed is almost done.

The walls and floor have been built and a tarp currently serves as the shed’s roof. Nurmi expects the roof to be completed soon.

“Everything’s all ready except for the steel,” he said. “We may have it by the end of this week or the beginning of next week.”

Selectmen expressed concern that snow may fall before the roof is on, but Nurmi was confident that the tarp is lashed on tightly enough to keep the salt dry. “There’s no way snow’s going to come in there,” he remarked.

Town Clerk Penny Tougas asked selectmen for guidelines for collecting interest on late taxes. If, for example, a resident paid their late taxes but still owed 12 cents in interest, “am I going to chase the 12 cents down with a 37-cent letter?” she asked.

Chairman Lenny Adler advised Tougas to “use a little judgment,” but noted that other towns in Maine have foreclosed on properties with very little tax due. Selectmen will contact the Maine Municipal Association for advice on the matter.

In other business, selectmen heard concerns from the Otisfield Citizens Action Committee. Gordon Chamberlain, acting chairman of the committee, presented selectmen with a written list of four “items of concern.”

Among the group’s concerns was a camping trailer on Bell Hill Road.

“It has been there for five months. It now has a new roof installed over it. Is this being taxed as a home or what?” Chamberlain read from his letter to selectmen.

Selectmen agreed that once a camper has been made immovable, its tax status changes. They will look into the matter.

The group also asked selectmen to “pass a resolution tonight that all persons serving on town committees have their taxes paid up to date in full.”

“I’m not sure we can legally do that,” Adler said. “What would your definition be of paid in full?’ Would that mean the day taxes come out they need to be paid?”

Chamberlain said not being listed in the annual report as owing taxes would suffice.

“My reasoning behind that would be that if the committees were doing what they were supposed to do it would be time consuming,” he said, “and the person would be better suited to getting a job to pay off their taxes.”

Selectmen took no action on the committee’s request.