FARMINGTON – Employment of a county dispatcher and a candidate from Massachusetts as full-time Farmington Police Department patrolmen will come before selectmen when they meet at 6:30 tonight.

Dispatcher Kyle Ellis of Wilton and Michael Adcock were the top two candidates for positions left by Verne Stevens and Nathan Reid, police Chief Richard Caton said Monday. The application includes a written test, oral board and background investigation, he said.

Pending confirmation by the board, both candidates will undergo a seven-week field training program. Ellis will also need to complete an 18-week basic law enforcement training while Adcock had completed similar 22-week training in Massachusetts but will need to receive Maine-specific courses, Caton said.

Ellis, who has worked full-time as a county dispatcher for the past two-and-a-half years, was voted Dispatcher of the Year for 2006 by his co-workers. He also has done some part-time work as an officer for Wilton and is a captain in the town’s Fire Department.

Ellis, who has completed a 100-hour preservice law enforcement course, said Monday that he had decided “it was the time in his life to do it.” If accepted he will continue to work as a part-time dispatcher after he gives notice for the full-time position.

Ellis said he’s familiar with the Farmington department and members through his work for the county.

In other business, the board will hold a public hearing to determine whether there is an illegal junkyard or public nuisance on the property owned by Paula Allen Nielsen at 202 High St.

Confirmation of employment of Stephen Almquist and Michael Melville as probationary firefighters will be decided as well as confirmation of Gary Dorr as a part-time sidewalk plow operator/plow truck driver and Timothy Roy as a Teen Center supervisor in the Parks and Recreation Department.