LIVERMORE FALLS – Selectmen have chosen six out of 32 applications for the town manager position, board Chairwoman Louise Chabot said Tuesday.

Twenty-seven candidates submitted resumes by the Feb. 27 deadline and five others submitted applications after that day, she said.

The board decided to review all of them, she said.

Selectmen met in executive session Monday night to discuss the applications. Each selectman had received a copy of them to review and came to Monday’s meeting prepared to discuss the top 10 they felt should be selected to interview, Chabot said, based on a grading system.

Six people with the most points collectively were chosen, she said.

“We have what appears to be some very good candidates,” Chabot said.

Chabot e-mailed the Maine Municipal Association on Tuesday, which is helping the town with the process, to set up a day to interview the candidates.

Selectmen will ask the same people who were on the search committee previously. This will be the second round of interviews the committee has done. Nineteen applications were received for the position last year but the selected candidates and selectmen couldn’t reach agreements.

Members of the search committee then, besides Chabot, were Selectman Jackie Knight, Highway Foreman Bill Nichols, Sewer Department Superintendent Kent Mitchell, police Chief Ernie Steward, Treasurer Kristal Flagg and community members Darryl Brown and Phil Poirier.

Flagg has been serving as interim manager since Martin Puckett took another job in northern Maine in September 2008.