PARIS — At their meeting last week, selectmen opted to stay with the same town meeting day and time for this year’s annual event after a survey from voters didn’t have a clear answer as to when they wanted the meeting.

At the Monday, Feb. 8 meeting, Paris selectmen voted to keep annual town meeting at 10 a.m. on a Saturday during June, as it has been held in years past. Selectman Sam Elliot was absent from the meeting.

During open session, resident Rick Little questioned why town meeting couldn’t be held on Monday nights like the selectmen’s meetings. He noted small business owners either lose a day of business by having to close up shop or cannot attend the meeting.

Selectman Robert Wessels shared some results from the survey from the November 2015 election regarding town meeting and said he didn’t have a strong opinion either way. He said 35 percent of voters, or 209 people, preferred to keep it Saturday, while 29 percent, or 173 people, wanted to move it to Monday night.

“If we’ve got stuff to discuss and we’ve got issues and people want to talk, I think it makes much more sense from a policy point of view to have it on Saturday where you have a chunk of time to chew it over,” Selectman Janet Jamison said. “I would really like to stay with Saturdays.”

Selectmen Chair Mike Risica said it didn’t matter to him when town meeting is held.

“It’s these people that matter,” he said, as he motioned towards the small crowd of residents in attendance.

In other news, selectmen:

• appointed Katherine Mitchell to the Norway Paris Community Television Committee.
• tabled discussing changes to the town’s personnel policy until Jamison could clean up the document a bit.
• approved a new Central Maine Power pole going in on Brett Hill Road.
• were informed the town foreclosed on 27 properties owing $25,344 in unpaid taxes from 2014. There were 122 foreclosure notices that went out in December 2015, Interim Town Manager Sawin Millett said.
• were told by Millett he would get an answer regarding $287 for commemorative coins and what they’re for.
• learned Judy Gideon and Chris Bass volunteered to come in and finish tabulating the surveys circulated during the November 2015 election.

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