NEW GLOUCESTER – Selectmen on Monday approved granting up to $7,000 more for planning development for the Upper Gloucester Village along Route 100.

Land Management Planning Committee Chairman Lawrence Zuckerman said the funds will pay for supplies, refreshments, meeting space, mailings and technical help to host a day-long workshop with residents.

Selectmen agreed to approve spending up to $7,000 from the Pineland Tax Increment Financing District funds.

In other business, selectmen rescinded a vote taken earlier this month and initiated by Selectman Lenora Conger to establish a heating oil fund from donations to help people who might not qualify for general assistance.

The reversal came based on information from Town Manager Rosemary Kulow that confidentiality of information is at issue.

Susanne F. Pilgrim, staff attorney at Maine Municipal Association, said Maine’s Right to Know Law states that any document created by a town official concerning business is a public document unless there is a specific exception in the law making that document confidential.

“The only way that I am aware for you to be sure that non-general assistance fuel program applications and disbursements would be confidential is if the program was actually created, owned and run by a separate charitable group or agency,” Pilgrim wrote.

The Keep ME Warm program accepts donations from the public and then distributes money to a regional community action association program, for example, Portland based People’s Regional Opportunity Program, that links to New Gloucester.

TD Banknorth accepts donations for the Keep ME Warm Fund. People wishing to make a donation may call 1-800-393-7175.

The New Gloucester Cemetery Association presented the town a cemetery burial data book which records the 4,700 burials in five New Gloucester public cemeteries and two private cemeteries. With a computer software program and a donated computer, the association says the data book will be updated annually.