WOODSTOCK – Selectmen Tuesday voted to hold a special town meeting as soon as possible to ask voters to OK using highway reserve money to purchase a used pickup truck for the Highway Department.

According to Town Manager and Road Commissioner Vern Maxfield, the town’s 1991 truck needs to be replaced because the repairs it needs to get an inspection sticker would cost too much.

“We are hoping to find a newer pickup for $6,000 to $8,000 to replace it. It was not put on the March town meeting warrant so we need to take the matter before the people now. No money needs to be raised as we have enough in the highway reserve to make the purchase,” Maxfield said.

The date of the meeting would be set as soon as they find a truck that will serve the department, he said.

The department uses the pickup when there is no need to use a big truck which saves the town on fuel costs.

In other business, the board voted to request bids for paving and reclaiming roads to be submitted by their next meeting on June 2. The roads involved in the projects include Perkins Valley Road, Church, Railroad and Birch streets, and a section of Old County Road.

The board is also asking that bids for the winter sand and salt storage project be submitted in July so the project can get off to an early start.

Explaining the project further, Maxfield said, “We are requesting a total of 2,500 cubic yards be screened, mixed and hauled for this year and stored in the salt shed here at the town office complex in Bryant Pond. This is a bit less than last year as we had used much more during the winter of 2007 and 2008.”