FRYEBURG – Meeting at the Fryeburg town office as part of a new roving schedule, Oxford County commissioners unanimously voted Tuesday night to form a commission to draw up a county charter.

The nine-member board will consist of six elected county residents and three people appointed by commissioners.

“It takes the power or the authority away from the state and puts it back in the county,” Commissioner David Duguay of Byron said.

Each of the three commissioners represents a district. The six elected commission members will be two people from each district. Those running for a seat will not declare an affiliation to a political party.

The three appointments will consist of a state legislator, a town official, and a county commissioner. No more than two of the appointments may belong to the same political party.

Duguay said the appointments will take place after the election of the six county residents on Election Day, Nov. 4, to ensure that a single town is not over-represented on the board.

In other business Tuesday, commissioners also set a mileage reimbursement rate for civil process servers at 43 cents per mile. The commissioners will revisit the issue in July and reconsider it for the 2009 budget.

Civil process servers had been paid 40 cents per mile. Three weeks ago, Ben Conant requested that the rate be increased to 50.5 cents per mile, citing higher gas prices and the distances traveled by servers.

The commissioners also agreed to pay Bill Haynes of Waterford $2,400 for a one-year verbal contract to update the county’s Web site. The Web site has not been updated in two years.

Haynes said he would clear older material from the site and add new features, including a calendar of events, agendas and minutes of the county meetings, and a new section on county courts.