FARMINGTON – Selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday night to donate up to $500 from the special projects account to the town’s new veterans’ memorial in Meeting House Park.

Roderick-Crosby American Legion Post No. 28 is raising the last of the money needed for the memorial, which will cost nearly $11,600 when completed, according to an American Legion document. The legion needed to raise $1,621.22 as of early October, according to the document, to pay for the memorial, which will state, “The price of freedom is not free.”

“It never does harm to give respect to the men and women that served our country,” Chairman of the Board of Selectmen Mary Wright said.

The special projects account, currently at $1,336, is for expenses like the memorial, Selectman Dennis Pike said. “(The account is for) unique, 11th hour, and new requests if deemed appropriate by the Board of Selectmen,” he said.

Usually, groups requesting donations request them when the town is budgeting for the next year, Pike said. But the American Legion rarely asks for funds.

Selectmen voted unanimously to approve Farmington’s nearly $45,000 share of the Mt. Blue Community Access TV Inc. budget, fees and equipment combined. Wilton pays 32.8 percent of that budget, while Farmington’s share is 67.2 percent, according to the community access channel’s budget sheet.

Selectmen also voted to administer a federal community development block grant for the Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments, which cannot request the federal grant without having a municipality to administer it. Administering the grant is not expected to take much time or effort on Farmington’s part, Town Manager Richard Davis said.