PARIS — Selectmen unanimously voted Monday to affirm the appointment of a resident to the Norway-Paris Solid Waste Board one week after that board refused to accept the appointment.

The vote was taken after Selectman Raymond Glover motioned to recognize Janet Jamison as “a properly appointed representative” of the town on the Solid Waste Board, and to send a written response to the board.

On Aug. 17, five of the Solid Waste Board’s seven members voted to refuse recognition of Jamison’s appointment and request that the Paris selectmen rescind it. The motions accused Jamison of creating a potential liability issue and making “unethical and extremely biased comments” about the manager and employees at the Brown Street transfer station. They also accused Jamison of “public innuendos and false accusations” against Solid Waste Board members.

Jamison said Monday that the board has refused to follow its bylaws or the stipulations of an interlocal agreement between Norway-Paris Solid Waste and the two towns. Norway-Paris Solid Waste operates as a quasi-municipal organization to dispose of solid waste created in the two communities.

Voters at this year’s annual town meetings in June accepted a new agreement, which was created by an ad hoc committee after questions were raised regarding a fee hike proposed by the board. Under the new agreement, the board has been expanded to seven members, meetings are held monthly basis and fee changes must be approved by both boards of selectmen.

At the July 3 Norway selectmen’s meeting, Jamison asked that they reconsider their appointment of Solid Waste Board Vice President Eric Grondahl. At that meeting, Jamison accused him of inappropriate language and saying he would not advance to the presidency the next year as required by the bylaws. At the Aug. 10 Paris selectmen’s meeting, Jamison also accused the board of not following the bylaws and worried that the board was seeking to avoid oversight by selectmen.

“They just think that I’m a disruptive force, or a stumbling block to the good work they want to do,” she said Tuesday. “It’s just a bunch of malarkey.”

Jamison said the board does not have the authority to deny her appointment.

“They do not operate autonomously from the town,” she said Monday.

Al Atkinson, president of the Solid Waste Board, said Tuesday that the motion to not accept Jamison’s appointment stemmed from her criticism of Margaret Cedroni, manager at the Brown Street transfer station, at the Aug. 10 selectmen’s meeting. Atkinson said Jamison was not permitted to criticize Cedroni unless she was present or the selectmen were in executive session.

“She left us open to a lawsuit by that employee,” Atkinson said.

Atkinson denied that the board was seeking to get more involved in the day-to-day affairs of the towns’ waste disposal. He said the board was following state law allowing the election of people to the board when they denied Jamison’s appointment. He also accused Jamison of being confrontational and inhibiting the board’s work.

“We’re operating efficiently, we all get along, nobody’s making innuendos and trying to get anyone off the board,” said Atkinson. “We’ve got a good board, and we want to keep it that way.”

On Monday, Jamison suggested that selectmen consider dissolving the Solid Waste Board if they do not recognize her appointment. Under the interlocal agreement, Norway-Paris Solid Waste may dissolve if a five-sevenths majority on the board is in favor or if selectmen present the issue to residents and two-thirds of the voters in each town agree to dissolve the organization.

Jamison said she intends to attend the next Solid Waste Board meeting as a director. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m.  Sept. 21 at the Paris town office.

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