MINOT — Selectmen decided Tuesday night to begin legal action to condemn a dilapidated building at 184 Woodman Hill Road.

Last March, neighbors approached selectmen, noting that it had been about three years since anyone lived in the property and that boarding that had gone up two years ago was coming undone. They said with skirting torn away in places, animals, most notably skunks and porcupines, had taken up residence.

“People living along Old Woodman Hill Road are concerned that nothing is being done, but the town can’t just walk in and start tearing someone’s place down,” Town Administrator Arlan Saunders told the board.

He did note that taking down the building was taking much longer than necessary. Agreements made with the owner have not been followed through.

“Demolition on the Soucy property should have started and has not,” Saunders said.

He told selectmen that he met Ken Pratt, the town’s code enforcement officer, Friday and learned that Pratt had again spoken with property owner Sharon Soucy in Alaska.

“He called her and she stated that her son told her it was being torn down,” Saunders said.

He said that when Soucy learned that nothing had been done, she again called her son and was told that the contractor he had hired was out of state for two weeks.

Meanwhile, the town is going forward with legal action.

“Pratt has made a call to (town attorney) Jamie Belleau about getting started with the title search,” Saunders said. It will identify any lien holders who must be notified should the board condemn the property and declare it unsafe.

In other business, selectmen agreed to have Main-Land Development do a site plan for Riverside Cemetery in West Minot, verifying the location of existing graves and identifying sites still available. The estimated cost is between $1,000 and $1,600, which would be drawn from the cemetery’s trust account.

Main-Land Development is expected to complete work marking burial sites in the expansion of the Center Minot Hill Cemetery this week and can then move to the cemetery in West Minot.

Selectmen cast their votes for three representatives to the Androscoggin County Budget Committee as presented on the ballot. The representatives are Nancy Richard of Mechanic Falls, Mark Samson of Auburn and Emily Tuttle of Minot.

Selectmen noted that the ballot indicated Richard was from Poland and that they were aware and understood her residence to be in Mechanic Falls. They anticipated, as did members of the Mechanic Falls Town Council, that a correction would be made.