ROXBURY – About 35 voters at Roxbury’s annual town meeting Monday approved a budget of more than $260,000, 7 percent higher than last year.

Roads and the Fire Department appeared to be of most interest to voters. Many wondered if the $16,898 appropriation was enough for summer roads and if the town would enforce road postings this spring.

“The roads will be posted to keep the loggers off,” Selectman Deborah DeRoche said. “It’s to try to save the culverts we’ve been putting in.”

Paul Cogley noted that Horseshoe Valley Road needs repair, and recalled years when it was a mud bog during the spring.

“We need to come up with the money for the roads, for infrastructure,” Tina Howard said. “It’s deteriorating; it really needs it.”

Dennis Daniel suggested the town have logging companies post performance bonds and use the bond to pay for road damage done by logging trucks.

Voters approved the $16,898 appropriation, and Selectman John Sutton said the board would put together a priority list for roads and discuss it at a special town meeting.

Howard moved to cut $15,000 for the Fire Department to $10,000, calling for grants to defray equipment and training costs.

“No disrespect to the Fire Department, because they do a wonderful job, but times are tough,” Howard said. “We need to think about the infrastructure and keeping our taxes down.”

Fire Chief Ray Carver said the federal government requires the Fire Department and some municipal officials to do National Incident Management System training to be eligible for grants, and that the budget needs to include the training funds.

“The state comes in and checks you,” said former fire Chief Gordon Touchette. “I think $15,000 is cheap.”

Voters approved the $15,000, as well as $2,000 for the fire equipment reserve. Carver said the reserve was used to replace equipment.

Earlier this winter, Sutton said, pipes froze at the town office due to faulty heating resulting in an increase from $5,000 last year to $11,000 this year in the town building repair account.

“We are discussing it with our insurance agent,” he said. He said the increase would cover the town if insurance money isn’t available.

Also approved were $5,348 for Med-Care; $11,000 for town building general maintenance; $23,926.92 for the Northern Regional Solid Waste board; $18,281.64 for rubbish collection; $113,885.08 for winter road maintenance; and $16,352.50 for selectmen and other town officers.

Mike Worthley was elected to a three-year selectman’s term while Nina Hodgkins was elected town clerk for a three-year term and Renee Hodsdon was elected tax collector/treasurer. The town has an opening on the school board.