MINOT — The Board of Selectmen signed a statement Monday that is critical of RSU 16’s proposed $17.8 million budget for the 2011-12 school year.

Contacted Tuesday, Selectman Eda Tripp said the board took its action because it was apparent that the Regional School Unit 16 School Committee hadn’t heard what voters were saying May 17 when they rejected its first proposal for an $18.1 million budget.

The statement begins by saying, “We have studied this budget and feel that the cuts that the RSU 16 School Committee have recently made still do not reflect the wishes of the people who are paying the taxes.”

The statement takes issue with the expansion of the pre-kindergarten program, an apparent new guidance position serving Minot Consolidated School and Elm Street School, a 2.6 percent pay increase for all central office personnel and pay increases varying from 1.3 percent to 12.3 percent elsewhere.

The statement encourages voters to take the time to read the budget completely before they vote.

The statement concludes by saying, “All three towns (Mechanic Falls, Minot and Poland) worked very hard to keep the municipal budgets level. The RSU 16 budget needs to do the same.”

In other business:

* Selectmen directed Town Administrator Arlan Saunders to prepare a list of people who are due refunds for a portion of the development impact fees they paid when they built their homes.

About 100 property owners have built their homes since 2003 when the impact fee went into effect. Saunders’ first task is to track down the current owners of the properties. He has asked that people who believe they have a refund coming to contact him directly.

Saunders said he would begin verifying owners of record and hoped to be able to present selectmen with the names of at least some of the affected property owners at the next board meeting, with payments going out within a month.

* Saunders advised selectmen that the Board of Appeals will meet Wednesday, June 22, to consider developer Chuck Starbird’s appeal of Code Enforcement Officer Ken Pratt’s decision to deny him permits to build three houses on the unaccepted portion of York Road.

* Selectmen met in executive session with one of the persons responsible for the vandalism that occurred the last weekend in May.

Saunders said that the individual, a juvenile, admitted to the wrongdoing and would accept the consequences, which, Saunders said, would consist of some community service.

Damage to the Town Garage, the sand pile and to stored road salt was estimated to amount to about $3,000.

*Selectmen awarded the bid for the town’s summer paving program to R.C. & Sons of Lewiston. Its bid of $179,104.70 was the lowest of the five received. All of Shaw Hill Road and 2,400 feet of Center Minot Hill Road will be paved.