MINOT — Selectmen on Monday announced they are looking for a resident-at-large to serve on a committee reviewing the Fire Department’s space needs.

Voters at the March town meeting asked selectmen to form a committee after they rejected a proposal for a 2,640-square-foot addition, large enough to about double the Central Fire Station’s size.

Proponents estimated the total cost for the addition at $432,000.

Selectmen asked Town Administrator Arlan Saunders to see if he could recruit two members of the town Budget Committee and a member of the Planning Board to serve on the space needs study committee.

Selectmen Dan Callahan and Dan Gilpatric agreed to serve on the study committee.

Residents interested in serving should contact Saunders at the town office.

In other matters, Saunders told the board that the project to replace the Indian Brook culvert at the Shaw Hill Road crossing is scheduled for the week of Aug. 6.

“Warning signs will be placed on either July 30th or 31st,” Saunders said.

Saunders said the road is expected to be closed all week as the town crew replaces the two culverts with a single 50-foot, 6-by 8-foot box culvert that’s open on the bottom to allow natural stream flow.

For several years the town has sought a solution to the problem of Indian Brook flooding Shaw Hill Road repeatedly.

The total project cost is $51,343 with a hazard mitigation grant in the amount of $38,507 coming from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Saunders said the overall level of Shaw Hill Road will be raised along a 300-foot section of road. He estimated that 300 cubic yards of gravel will be hauled in for the project.

“If things go really, really, well, the road could be open Thursday afternoon (Aug. 9) but more likely it will be Friday before traffic can go through,” Saunders said.

In other business, selectmen asked Saunders to look into the Department of of Environmental Protection’s Maine Residential Lamp Recycling Program to determine whether it would be of benefit to the town to participate. It would appear that the program might allow townspeople to bring their worn out low-energy mercury bulbs to the town office for disposal at no cost to the town.