Dresden selectmen voted Tuesday, July 6 to ask voters next year whether to have the annual town meeting on a Saturday morning as usual, or a Tuesday night. Town Administrator Mike Faass said an informal poll’s results were inconclusive for the second year in a row. The survey on paper ballots and Facebook showed 64 respondents fairly evenly divided, he announced.

“We need to ask the town. I would like to address it at the next annual town meeting,” said Chairman John Rzasa. Selectman Gerald Lilly agreed. “We got less than 10% of the voters. It has to be voted on at town meeting.”

In other business, the board was unable to find a better way to make transfer station tokens available to the public. Lilly said the “Take Out” convenience store had ceased to sell them which left the town office the only seller. Selectman Allan Moeller said selling them at the transfer station was not an option.People have broken in there and stolen free stuff,” said Moeller. Resident Gary Blau suggested having a token vending machine in the town office. “There has to be a solution,” said Blau.

New Regional School Unit 2 committee member Jeff Bickford announced it will meet at Dresden Elementary School at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12. He said the meeting would also be available on Zoom. Public attendance has been poor, he said. “The role of the school board has to be redefined.”

Blau asked the selectboard if it had moved ahead with creating a committee to study withdrawing from the RSU. Rzasa said he was waiting to see the final figures on increases to the town’s assessment. “I am looking at getting at it but we need to know where they are going,” he said.