OTISFIELD – Adoption of an updated Comprehensive Plan is expected to draw the most debate at the annual town meeting March 6.

Residents were told this month that the revised 1991 plan is a guideline, not regulations. Last summer the comp plan committee urged selectmen to hold a special town meeting to vote on the document, but after reviewing it, selectmen said they did not believe it was done and asked for changes and additions.

Since then, it was agreed: to add a statement that growth management is not included because the topography in the community does not require it; to change wording so the Town Government Committee allows elected officials to be advisers and paid town personnel to be among the appointed members; and to add a Capital Improvement Plan.

Copies of the plan are available in the town office or online at www.otisfieldcomprehensiveplan2003.org.

An article to transfer $25,000 from the road construction reserve account to replace the old salt shed is on the warrant.

There are two Fire Department articles. One calls for no funds for salaries for firefighters because there is $35,796 in that budget. The other is a request for $5,750 as a match for a grant for a thermal imaging camera, which costs an estimated $17,000.

There are two articles in the warrant submitted by petition in an effort to ensure the quality of water in Pleasant and Thompson lakes. The first article calls for $4,000 for the Pleasant Lake/Parker Pond Association to help keep milfoil out of the two waterways. The second article calls for $5,000 to assist with the Thompson Lake Youth Conservation Corps. The organizations works on erosion control in the Thompson Lake watershed in Casco, Oxford, Otisfield and Poland.

Town meeting refreshments will be offered as a fund-raiser for the sixth grade class at Otisfield Community School. Students plan a field trip in June to the New England Aquarium and the Museum of Science in Boston. Coffee, donuts, muffins and breakfast foods will be available throughout the meeting. For lunch, they will offer American chop suey, garlic bread, salad, drinks, homemade pies and desserts for $5 per person.

Uncontested for re-election are incumbent Road Commissioner Richard Bean Sr., incumbent Recreation Director Marianne Izzo-Morin and incumbent SAD 17 Director Joe Vaillancourt. No one has expressed an interest in a one-year seat on the school board recently vacated by Matt Morrison.

Nominations for election are made during town meeting.

The meeting starts at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 6, at Otisfield Community School on Powhattan Road.