ROXBURY — Selectmen at Tuesday night’s board meeting learned that a petition submitted at the board’s meeting last month has enough certified signatures, Chairman John Sutton said early Tuesday evening.

The Nov. 24 petition asks selectmen to convene a special town meeting in January to ask voters to help fund up to $10,000 for an appeal of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection permit issued in August to Record Hill Wind LLC.

A group of residents who opposed the wind power project have appealed that permit.

That petition accuses the DEP of “failing to follow its own rules regarding the assurance of financial capacity and the funding of the decommissioning escrow account as prerequisites to issuing a final permit to the wind power developer,” and of ignoring “expert testimony” and accepting “flawed noise studies, which understate the impacts to residents from turbine noise.”

It also accuses developer Record Hill Wind of failing to provide meaningful jobs as a “tangible benefit” to Roxbury residents.

The petition directs the town to hold a special town meeting in January with a secret ballot vote directing selectmen to help fund the appeal by up to $10,000, and to include that money in the municipal budget to be voted on March 1 at the annual town meeting.

Sutton said the board would meet with town attorney Jennifer Kreckel to determine the petition’s legality, before voting to accept or deny it.

In other news, the town’s fire extinguishers were examined and found to be working properly.

Additionally, a public hearing will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, on proposed amendments to Roxbury’s floodplain management ordinance.

A regular selectmen’s meeting will be held prior to that at 6 p.m. for a presentation by Oxford County Sheriff Wayne Gallant about Maine law and junkyards.

The board has been trying to force some junkyard owners to get required permits to operate as such.

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