PARIS — Two selectmen were chosen for three-year terms in nearly identical tallies at Tuesday’s election.

Ted Kurtz and Ken West were the only candidates for two openings on the board. West won a seat with 866 votes, while Kurtz won re-election with 862 votes.

Kurtz, a local attorney, has served on the board since March. He was chosen at a special election to fill the unexpired term of chairman David Ivey, who was elected in 2007 and recalled from office in February.

West, a retired Maine Machine Products Co. worker, ran unsuccessfully at the same election to fill the unexpired term of Troy Ripley, who was elected in 2009 and resigned prior to being recalled in absentia. West replaces Glen Young, who was elected in 2007 and resigned in March.

Janet Jamison won a three-year term on the Paris Utility District Board of Trustees with 585 votes. She defeated Raymond Lussier, who had 396 votes. Also elected were Mike Dignan with 970 votes to a three-year term on the Oxford Hills School District Board of Directors and George “Buddy” Coffren to a one-year term on the same board with 836 votes.

The town voted to accept amendments to the recall and subdivision ordinances. The tally in the recall decision was 563 for the amendments and 411 against, while 597 voted for the subdivision amendments and 381 voted against.

The amended ordinance replaces a recall ordinance passed in November in a 1,555 to 537 vote. The amendments, drafted by the town’s policy and procedures committee, aim to address issues brought up during the recall procedure in these matters. They require the selectmen to, within seven days of receiving a petition, schedule a recall election for the first Tuesday after 45 days have passed or at a regular election if one is taking place within 60 days. If an official who is subject to recall wishes to have a public hearing on the matter, they may request one no later than 21 days before the election.

One amendment changes the minimum number of signatures to initiate a recall petition from 10 percent of Paris voters in the last gubernatorial election to 10 percent of all registered voters in the town. This increases the minimum tally from about 211 to about 360. Another amendment clarifies that a tie vote will defeat the recall, and that a recalled official will be immediately removed from office.

The subdivision ordinance amendments were recommended by the consensus decision of an ad hoc committee of selectmen, Planning Board members and residents. A subdivision ordinance passed 487-468 in 2007, but was replaced by a petitioned document last year in a 461-441 vote.

The amendments retain most of the changes the petitioned ordinance made to the 2007 document. These include allowing subdivisions to meet gravel road standards rather than paved road standards; allowing appeals to go before the Board of Appeals instead of the Superior Court; allowing the Planning Board to grant waivers in several areas; and having a single application process rather than one for major subdivisions and one for minor subdivisions.

The committee determined that a section on cluster housing is already covered in the town’s residential open space ordinance, so the amended version removes that section. It also requires two street connections for subdivisions with 15 or more lots that are on roads other than Routes 26, 117, 119, or High Street. It cuts language saying the standards should only apply within the boundaries of the subdivision and restores language from the original document saying one purpose of the document is to “minimize the potential negative impacts from new subdivisions on neighboring properties and on the municipality.”

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