POLAND — Selectmen on Tuesday briefly reviewed materials and procedures for Saturday’s annual town meeting and reminded residents of the importance of a good turnout.

“That’s the meeting where we set the town budget for the year,” Selectman Steve Robinson said. “We need a hundred people to show up.”

The town charter requires that 100 registered voters attend, otherwise the town meeting cannot act on any business in the warrant.

Several members of the board nodded and said that a year ago, it was past the 9 a.m. starting time before the hundredth voter signed in.

Robinson also reminded people that the town meeting technically begins Friday, April 4, at the Town Hall. Polls there will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. to elect officers. The meeting will reconvene at the Poland Regional High School auditorium at 9 a.m. Saturday, April 5, for the business portion.

Robinson took the opportunity to introduce the television audience to Bradley Plante, the new town manager, who was winding down his first day on the job.

Plante gave his first report, relating how he had been greeted by fire/rescue Chief Mark Bosse on his arrival at the town office earlier that day.

“I think he would have come and gotten me if I hadn’t shown up,” Plante said. “He knows where I live.”

Bosse had served as interim town manager since October 2013 and apparently was ready to return to the fire station full time.

Plante said he met with several town employees and residents, and was working on setting up one-on-one meetings with department heads, as well as other dignitaries and key business people.

Plante also noted that he met with John Cleveland of Community Dynamics, who handed him a draft of a report on his work splitting the accounts of TIFs 1 and 2.

Figures from the two accounts have been commingled since they began a decade ago and last autumn, state officials asked the town to separate the accounts at least as far back as 2008.

Cleveland, Plante said, indicated he would have a final report within 30 days.

Selectman Walter Gallagher said he had expected a final report prior to the annual town meeting and was disappointed not to have it.

“It has been taking longer than we wanted,” Robinson said. It probably wasn’t critical to any decision townspeople will have to make this Saturday in regard to the TIF accounts, he said.

In other business, selectmen appointed election clerks to serve for the next year and set the date for a workshop on April 16 at 6 p.m. with Plante to establish goals and expectations. They also agreed to hold off on a workshop with department heads to establish a prioritized to-do list until another meeting.