While the police chief search continues, the Board of Selectmen voted Monday to accept a three-year union contract, following executive session to discuss both issues.

After the board's meeting, Town Manager Nanci Allard said that interviews continue for the position of police chief. She said that once interviews were complete, the candidate would have to undergo testing, an extensive background check, and appear before the selectmen. She said that at least some of the time before the board may be in open session.

Of the contract, Ms. Allard said that there was little to no difference with the last contract. She said that there would be a two percent cost of living raise, but that there would be no step increases, which are set wage increases that automatically happen at set intervals.

Ms. Allard said that once a wage study has been completed, the wage portion of the contract will probably be reopened to negotiations.

The board also approved a request from the listers to adjust last year's grand list total by about $33,000. Lister Chairman Arlington Supplee told the board that a homeowner had requested that the listers reinspect the property, as there had been discrepancies between the home's description before and after the last reappraisal. He said that by adding a bedroom that had been omitted in the last reappraisal, improvements that had been made, and an incorrect listing of the amount of property in the parcel, the value of the parcel had increased by a little over $$30,000.

He also told the board that the listers were starting to do the background work for a request for proposal (RFP) for another town wide reappraisal, as he expects the State will tell the Town that it has fallen below the 80 percent mark on the common level of appraisal (CLA) that is used to determine education taxes.

Mr. Supplee also told the board that he as he works on updating the tax map, he is going through 170 mylars that were not used two years ago in the new tax map. he said that he is finding discrepancies in the map and askds that anyone having an unregistered survey of property to please bring it in and regerster it.

The board authorized Ms. Allard to go forward with looking into what needs to be done with the bridge at the bottom of West Hill that has been identified by the State as needing repairs at the base of its abutments.

According to the report there are "voids between the upper and lower concrete footing and undermining" of an abutment.