Alna is set to name its next town clerk Wednesday and take possible first steps toward updating the town’s building rules. An “accessory apartments” item on selectmen’s agenda, released June 18, calls for planning “to convene one or more workshops to gather public input on an amendment to Alna’s Building Code Ordinance.”

Since Sheila McCarty resigned as town clerk in February, first the town treasurer Amy Stockford and then former Alna town clerk Lisa Arsenault have served as the interim clerk.

A rule that occupants of a principal unit and an accessory apartment “must be members of the same extended family, or a certified medical caregiver of a family member” drew discussion last month, when the board addressed questions stemming from voter challenges in the March elections. Selectmen have said a town attorney and Maine Municipal Association advised against acting on alleged code violations.

Third Selectman Charles Culbertson said at the time, “There are plenty, plenty of situations in Alna where people are co-habitating that are not related or not married. How do we have authority to pass some sort of moral judgement on who can or cannot live together ...”

The 6 p.m. board meeting is a Zoom webinar, at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82459697304?pwd=bWFsZmU5ZDV2TnRjWHVFcituVGlVUT09

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