BUCKFIELD — Town Manager Glen Holmes told selectmen Tuesday night that there had been several complaints of dogs running loose or being walked in Damon Cemetery and owners were not cleaning up after the animals.

“There’s nothing worse than going to visit a grave site and stepping in something that shouldn’t be there,” Selectman Eileen Hotham said.

Developing a policy was discussed, but the final decision was for Holmes to put up a few signs asking pet owners to please clean up after their pets.

In other news, the board voted to have Holmes include a barn on town-owned property on Darnet Road in the town insurance. The barn is on property acquired through foreclosure.

The former Graham Bell property on the railroad bed that has also been claimed through foreclosure has at least five piles of trash, Holmes said.

“The town owns it, we should clean it up,” Hotham said.

The board gave Holmes the OK to get estimates on having dump trucks come and pick up the trash. Holmes said it would not be done until fall because the road crew was very busy this summer.

Selectmen signed certification that Urban Rural Initiative Program funds were used for capital improvements last year on Gammon Road for around $70,000 and Bryant Road for around $56,551.

The board also visited the lawn in front on the Municipal Building to advise Becky Perry from the town Beautification Committee on where to place two balsam fir trees the committee wants to plant. An artificial tree is usually lit at Christmas when the Buckfield Junior-Senior High School choir sings holiday songs around the tree.

It was decided to have the trees on either side away from the center of the gazebo and the flag pole. Holmes said they could access power to light the trees from that area.

Holmes reported that five trees on High Street between the sidewalk and the road are affecting the sidewalk and they need to come down.

A resident said the trees are very old and rotten and should come down.