PARIS — Voters at a special town meeting Thursday will decide on several items, including three authorizing the allocation of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at the Paris Elementary School on High Street.

The first question asks whether voters will approve borrowing up to $240,000 for up to five years to conduct a townwide revaluation. Assessor John Brushwein said earlier this year that he was independently working on a revaluation and estimated that it could be completed by 2013. He said the process could be completed within a year by contracting with an outside agency. He estimated that it would cost $225,000 to complete the revaluation by hiring it out.

The article originally called for taking $225,000 from the town’s undesignated fund, but that was changed after interim Town Manager Michael Thorne discovered that there was less money in the fund than had been anticipated. Former assessor Kevin McGillicuddy completed a revaluation in 2007, raising the town’s value by $83 million, but resigned after complaints by some residents that their property taxes had increased significantly.

Voters will also decide whether to approve up to $38,525 for a new 2,500-gallon tank for the Fire Department’s tanker truck. Chief Brad Frost of the Paris Fire Department reported to selectmen in October that the old tank had sprung a leak and done some damage to the truck’s chassis. The funds for the repair would come from an insurance settlement paid to the town after the collapse of a portion of the former fire station on Pine Street in 2008.

A third item asks voters if they want to approve the use of $18,600 to repair or replace a recreational bridge over the Little Androscoggin River. The 212-foot-long wood and steel suspension bridge was built in 1987 near the town gravel pits and is accessible by both snowmobile and ATV trails. The money for the repair or replacement would come from a fund that collects fees from subdivisions that do not provide open space.

The final item asks whether voters will approve a new recall ordinance brought to the town last week by petition. The ordinance provides for the recall of elected officials, other than school board directors, if they are convicted of an illegal act or failed to perform an official duty. Under the new ordinance, selectmen would have to set a special town meeting for the purposes of a recall election after receiving a petition with signatures from at least 25 percent of the town’s voters. In order to be recalled, at least two-thirds of the voters at the meeting would have to approve the official’s removal, and the number of votes would have to exceed the number the official received at their last election.

If adopted, the ordinance would repeal one that was created by the town’s policy and procedures committee and adopted by referendum vote in November by a vote of 1,555 to 537.

Four selectmen have since been the subject of recall petitions, and special town meetings to address the petitions have been set for Feb. 1 and Feb. 5.

Resident Greg Harris, who presented the revised ordinance to the selectmen, has criticized the ordinance that is in place, saying it makes it too easy to remove officials, doesn’t specify reasons an official may be removed, and does not protect against the removal of a quorum on a board.

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