DURHAM – Administrative Assistant John White has presented selectmen with a budget based on passage of the Palesky tax-cap referendum.

One consequence: No job for White.

Another: No stipends for selectmen.

Also, two town office telephone lines, janitorial services, lawn mowing and parking lot sweeping would be eliminated. The two remaining town office workers would see their health and dental insurance limited to themselves, with no family coverage.

Security, electrical and telephone services at the town-owned Union Church would be turned off. There would be no money for the annual tax map update in 2005, and the hired tax-assessing agents, who work by the day, would work only 12 days of the year. The solid waste budget would cover the cost of the contract only, with no money for the twice-yearly bulky waste pickup.

The budget would include no dues for the Maine Municipal Association or the Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments, which offer legal and planning services, respectively; and no contributions to social service organizations.

If the tax cap passes, the town would see an overall shortfall of $1.3 million in tax revenue, according to White’s budget. In 2004, the municipality got 16 percent of local tax revenue. The School Department received 77 percent, and the county tax assessment took 7 percent.

White’s presentation dealt only with the municipal budget. School officials have not presented a post-Palesky spending plan.

In other business:

• Selectmen agreed to put the annual town report out to bid and to hold a brief regular meeting on Election Day, Nov. 2. Deborah Larrabee volunteered to take the minutes of the meeting so that White could be at the polls.

• Larrabee, who is the town’s emergency management director, reported that her grant application for a generator was approved at the county level.

• Selectmen decided that no action would be taken on a request by Fire Chief Bill St. Michel to consider securing an Americorps volunteer to work a the fire and rescue station until a presentation could be made before the Budget Committee.

• Selectmen voted, on the advice of the town attorney, to sign off on the new Shiloh Road bridge, although Road Commissioner Clifton Larrabee Sr. said he was not happy with the way the project was done. The work appeared to be substantially complete, he noted.