LISBON – Selectmen on Tuesday night failed to approve a resolution opposing the Palesky tax-cap proposal on the Nov. 2 ballot. The vote was 2-2 with L. Scott D’Amboise abstaining.

Selectmen E. Charles Smith and Layne Curtis said they were unconvinced about the dire predictions being made about revenue losses and opposed the resolution. Smith said he was “not totally opposed to changing where our revenue comes from.”

Chairman Mike Bowie noted selectmen had worked very hard over the last “three or four years to keep our property taxes at a minimum.” He said what bothered him most about the cap is that “it takes some of government out of taxpayers’ hands.”

Bowie and Selectmen Paul Chizmar voted in favor of adopting the resolution, and Smith and Curtis opposed it.

School Committee Chairman Harold Moran told selectmen the possibility of a cap’s being enacted “Scares me terribly; it’s going to cost programs” in the Lisbon school system.

“The cure is worse than the disease,” Noyes Lawrence said.

Bowie announced that the Advisory Board will meet Oct. 13 to discuss the cap and its probable effects on the town if it passes. He urged people to attend.