OXFORD – Selectmen agreed Thursday to determine the cost of performing a study on upgrades to the town office building on Pleasant Street.

If the cost is within reason, selectmen said they may consider using town funds to enlarge the scope of a study being done to redevelop the vacant Robinson Manufacturing Co. woolen mill.

The town was awarded a $10,000 Community Development Block Grant by the state Department of Economic and Community Development to study future uses of the mill property. The Robinson family and the town’s Economic Development Committee have each contributed $2,000, making $14,000 available for the study.

Early talk of redevelopment of the mill property has included the idea that the town could relocate its municipal offices to the 250-year old mill, which once employed more than 350 people and has a modern office wing.

The mill stopped producing woolen goods in the fall of 2003.

In order to weigh the benefits of such a move, selectmen want to know what repairs and upgrades are needed in the current town office. Problems with the heating system have been identified in the building, once the Oxford Elementary School.

“The building does have some problems,” said Town Manager Michael Chammings.

Chammings said the Robinson family has already studied the mill’s wastewater treatment plant and has done a market analysis. Those results could be incorporated into the study, he said.

Chammings said the newly formed CDBG Committee wants to explore using the sewer plant at the mill to extend sewer service in the village. Over the past five years, 20 percent of the septic systems in the village have been rebuilt, and there are many that need repair, according to the planning grant application.

The CDBG Committee will meet at 8:30 a.m. Monday with representatives of the Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments to complete the request for proposals for the mill study.