MINOT — Selectmen on Tuesday postponed approving the warrant for March town meeting until Feb. 3, because board Chairman Dean Campbell was absent.

Selectmen noted the Budget Committee approved most of the funding requests forwarded by the board. The committee voted in favor of all but one of the warrant articles that constitute the $1.5 million budget for the fiscal year that begins Feb. 1.

The budget will be presented at the March 1 town meeting.

The Budget Committee is recommending residents reject the Fire Department’s request for $35,000 for a new forestry truck. Selectmen previously recommended that no money be raised to replace the department’s 2001 forestry truck.

The Budget Committee also is against the article to renovate and expand the Central Fire Station, estimated to cost about $536,000. The proposal for an expanded and improved fire station failed to gather support at the 2012 and 2013 town meetings.

This year, when the Fire Department submitted a request that the project be considered for a third time, selectmen voted to move the warrant article from consideration at town meeting to a referendum question to be decided at the polls Friday, Feb. 28, the date of municipal elections.

Selectmen made no recommendation on the fire station project.

In addition to deciding whether to proceed with the Central Fire Station project, voters will elect two RSU 16 School Committee members and one selectman.

Town Clerk Heidi Schreiber said absentee ballots for the election will be available starting Wednesday, Jan. 29.

In other business:

* Selectmen appointed Dan Callahan as the board’s representative on the Regional School Unit 16 Budget Committee.

* Town Administrator Arlan Saunders reported that information and statements on the roaming dog situation in the Rodmar Road neighborhood have been forwarded to Animal Control Officer Robert Larrabee. He said he expects Larrabee will be taking them to the District Attorney’s Office as soon as possible.

* Saunders said he received a report from the Maine Department of Transportation to the effect that routes 119 and 124 are scheduled for paving this year.