MINOT — Selectmen have adopted a hazard mitigation plan for Androscoggin County, a step town officials hope will mean funding for a new culvert for the Indian Brook crossing at Shaw Hill Road.

Spring runoff, and periods of heavy rain at other times of the year, produced flows that have flooded Shaw Hill Road. The flooding has not only been a nuisance for local traffic, but has proven costly when it washed out portions of the road.

Town and Federal Emergency Management Agency officials have agreed that it would make more sense to spend money once to install a culvert that can adequately accommodate expected flows than to repeatedly fix what they know will be undone the next time the waters rise.

The project, estimated to cost a little over $50,000, would replace two small culverts with a single, 50-foot-long, 6- by 8-foot box culvert that’s open on the bottom to allow natural stream flow.

According to Town Administrator Arlan Saunders, new FEMA policy requires that the county’s plan be fully approved before FEMA will release any funds for projects in individual towns.

“We had hoped to do this project before now, but even now there is no guarantee the money will be coming. FEMA appears to be a little short on funds itself,” Saunders said.

In other business:

* For the fourth month, selectmen on Monday approved paying part of the town’s monthly assessment bill from Regional School Unit 16. Since July, RSU 16 has been sending bills based on the $17.8 million proposed budget that voters rejected in June, with the request that Minot pay its monthly share of $139,197.

Selectmen have approved checks for $132,507, the amount the town was paying the past year.

* Saunders told selectmen that Scott Parker, Highway Department supervisor, had negotiated the sale of the town’s surplus sander to Perry Transport and that a check for $5,500 had been deposited into the equipment reserve account.

* Selectmen accepted the resignation, with regret, of Cathleen McAnneny from the Planning Board and appointed Jim Brown, who had served as an alternate, as a regular member in her stead.