POLAND — A proposal to purchase the 32-acre Furman property will go before voters Dec. 6.

Selectmen on Tuesday approved a warrant calling for a special town meeting to accept the money that was donated for the purchase and to authorize selectmen to go forward with the purchase.

The action follows a successful effort whereby members of the town’s Conservation Commission, spearheaded by Fred Huntress and Don Stover, were able to raise the $32,800 to secure the property. The land is key to the development of a town hiking trail system that will run from the Ricker Library through to the town’s transfer station. The entire trail system would run across land owned by the town, totaling some 125 acres.

Selectmen also approved two additional warrant articles proposed by the Planning Board to amend the comprehensive land use code.

Selectmen tabled action on an article that would have called for the town’s acceptance of Wedgewood Circle as a town road, following developer Brian Merrill’s move to withdraw his request that the road be accepted at the December special town meeting.

Merrill made the offer to withdraw his request following a lengthy discussion between selectmen and representatives of the Wedgewood Estates Homeowners Association. The talks got bogged down over whether proper process had been followed in bringing the matter to a town vote and whether the road meets all the requirements for approval.

Lorin Martin, representing the homeowners, recounted the history of the events that led to the Planning Board’s acceptance of the cluster subdivision in 2006. Martin said it was clear to everyone involved with the review process that the intent was that when completed, the roads, Autumn Drive and Wedgewood Circle, would be accepted as town roads.

This was summed up in a letter from Bob Faunce, who was the town’s contract planner when the subdivision went through the review process.

Following a description of the four plans for the subdivision that led to Planning Board approval of a final plan, Faunce wrote:

“It is clear that the board and staff understood that the roads were intended to be offered to the town for acceptance and any waivers to road standards granted by the board were in the spirit of ensuring that the final plan best met the needs of future property owners and the town.”

A major sticking point, brought up by Selectman Steve Robinson, was that apparently the town’s standard plow trucks cannot properly negotiate the cul-de-sac turnaround. However, Public Works Director Tom Learned earlier noted that the town had a smaller plow truck that it used for parking lots and such that could do the job.

In tabling the request that Wedgewood Circle be placed on the town meeting warrant, the board directed Town Manager Bradley Plante to have Learned bring his plow equipment to the site to see what might be required to make things work and report to the board’s Dec. 2 meeting.

In other business, the board approved the purchase of a 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe for use by the Sheriff’s Department to patrol the town at a bid price of $34,746, less a $9,800 trade-in.

Selectmen also agreed to plow Hilt Hollow Road as far as the house in the former Hilt Hollow subdivision.