RUMFORD – Candidates for municipal offices waited more than two hours after polls closed Tuesday night in the American Legion hall to learn who would become a selectman and tax collector.

At 10:17 p.m. ballot warden Frank DiConzo read off the votes, proclaiming former Selectman Greg Buccina elected to the board, and John Giambattista elected as tax collector.

Buccina got 663 votes to incumbent J. Arthur Boivin’s 541.

Giambattista, one of four candidates, got 495 votes; Deborah Giasson got 439; Diane Paterson got 220; and Joseph Roberts got 53.

Giambattista takes over for Carlo Puiia, who, after 13 years as tax collector, officially became Rumford’s new town manager late Tuesday night.

Immediately after DiConzo read the tallies, town meeting moderator John Patrick swore in Buccina and Giambattista.

Then, Selectmen Brad Adley, Mark Belanger, Buccina, Robert Cameron and DiConzo, and Puiia went to the jury room in the municipal building and convened a selectmen’s meeting.

Adley was appointed chairman and DiConzo vice chairman.

The new board then chose to stick with past protocol and use Robert’s Rules of Order at meetings, keep board meetings on the first and third Thursdays of each month, and to continue using the bulletin board, newspapers and the town Web site to give notice of special meetings.

Selectmen then unanimously appointed Puiia as town manager by a 5-0 vote before immediately entering into executive session to discuss terms of his one-year contract.