ROXBURY – A special town meeting will be scheduled for sometime in mid-November to elect another selectman to fill the remaining term of Alan Hodgkins.

After serving 2 years of a three-year term, Hodgkins tended a letter of resignation this summer that was accepted on Aug. 23 by board Chairman Mark Touchette and Selectman Deborah DeRoche.

At Friday night’s meeting, Touchette and DeRoche signed a letter to be sent to Hodgkins requesting that he repay the remaining balance from his annual stipend pay of $1,500 for the six months not served. This would be $125 a month.

After the meeting, Touchette said Hodgkins didn’t explain in his letter of resignation why he was quitting. Contacted Friday night, Hodgkins attributed his departure to problems he said he had with Touchette and DeRoche.

“I got into being a selectman because of a selectmen problem, and I got out of it because of a selectmen problem,” Hodgkins said. “Nobody follows the rules in the town of Roxbury. They spend what they want to spend, and they meet when they want to meet, and I couldn’t handle it anymore.”

Roxbury selectmen normally meet on Thursday nights, but Touchette said they meet on occasional Friday nights because of his and DeRoche’s work schedules at the NewPage Corp. mill in Rumford.

In other business, Touchette and DeRoche discussed a letter from Med-Care Ambulance about its intent to buy land in Mexico and build a new $2.4 million ambulance facility. Med-Care is seeking a letter of approval for the project from selectmen in each of its 11 towns.

“Basically, I’m not in favor of it,” Touchette said. “It’s quite a tax commitment. It’s nice to have all the bells and whistles, but it comes at a cost. I think it’s just a lot of building for this town to have.”

Roxbury’s annual share of the expansion project would be $2,774.

DeRoche sided with Touchette, who wants to leave the matter to townspeople to decide.

“I don’t want to see something that costly right off. Let them get the money from Rumford and Mexico. They’ve got more money and more people,” she said.

“We pay our share of the formula, but I’m reaching the point where I have got to say no … .We are a community that’s getting more and more fixed-income people all the time,” Touchette added.

They agreed to have Town Clerk Tina Howard draft a letter to be sent to Med-Care voicing their opinions.