MINOT — The Board of Selectmen elected Dean Campbell chairman Monday and Dan Gilpatric vice chairman.

The board also appointed George Buker to a three-year term on the Planning Board and appointed Karen Nichols and Brad O’Connor to new three-year terms on the town Budget Committee.

Selectmen also awarded the contract for a new Peterbuilt 10-wheeler truck to Whited of Auburn, at a price lowered to $88,026 with a trade-in. Whited’s was the lowest of three bids received.

The board also received three bids for a dump body and plow gear to equip the truck, but elected to wait until the next regularly scheduled meeting before making a decision on which bid to accept.

Voters at last Saturday’s annual town meeting had authorized selectmen to purchase the new truck as a replacement for the 1989 L-8000 the town had been using as a sander the past five years.

Selectmen also agreed to allow an AFLAC representative to talk with town employees about purchasing disability insurance. The town itself would not be offering the disability insurance as a benefit but is involved to the extent that the insurance premiums would be deducted from employees paychecks before taxes. This reduces the employees’ tax liability, but does not cost the town anything.

Town Administrator Arlan Saunders told the board he has scheduled a joint meeting with members of the town Recreation Committee, Minot Enrichment Program, Minot-Hebron Athletic Association and the town Conservation Commission to discuss the possibility of combining some of these groups and/or their duties.

Saunders noted it was apparent at town meeting that, given the development of new fields and programs serving the town’s recreational interests, there is need for better coordination. Right now there is no one clearly in charge of what’s needed when and where.

He has scheduled a meeting of the stakeholders at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 10, at the town office.

Saunders also told selectmen that he was sending a letter to Vance Ashley concerning the sign that was destroyed in West Minot Village when the vehicle Ashley was driving left the road last December. The letter informs Ashley that the town is agreeable to a plan whereby he makes installment payments on the $520 it cost to replace the sign.

Highway Department foreman Scott Parker has now posted town roads, limiting access to vehicles under 23,000 pounds, in order to protect the roads from damage during the time it takes for frost to leave the ground.