PHILLIPS — Selectmen agreed Tuesday night that they need to understand details of NorthStar Ambulance’s coverage for the town.

NorthStar Emergency Medical Services is dispatched out of five bases throughout the Franklin County region. It responds to calls ranging from medical emergencies to auto accidents, snowmobile and ATV rescues, nursing home transfers or boating accidents.

It leases space in a Phillips town building, but whether the town has different coverage because of that arrangement is something Town Manager Elaine Hubbard suggested selectmen learn more about.

She said selectmen should meet with Mike Senecal, NorthStar’s executive director, who could explain how Phillips’ coverage is structured. The current coverage is from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Sunday. The ambulance also can respond to calls from other towns, including Rangeley, Avon and Madrid Township, and personnel may not be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

On three Sundays and two Saturdays, according to road commissioner Ward Bredeau, the town needed ambulance service, but personnel were not available.

“We’ll ask Mike Senecal to explain exactly what coverage we have,” she said.

Bredeau also reported progress on the planned rebuilding of the Bragg Corner section of the Reeds Mill and Toothaker Pond roads. The entire section will be torn apart, but he expects to be able to provide ample time for area residents to plan alternate routes for the short period of time the section may not be accessible.

Costs for engineering work are estimated in the $26,400 to $29,400 range, but no drawings have been done, so plans are not final, according to Hubbard.

“We will start in August and complete in September,” Bredeau said. Both the Nature Conservancy and the Atlantic Salmon Federation have helped with the effort, because the waterway is an important part of the replenishing of the salmon population in Maine.

In other news, the town’s fiscal year will end June 30. The Town Office will open at 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 1, Hubbard said.

She also said she would investigate the reasons for the overdrawn Fire Department account. Much of the $1,451 was spent to replace pagers, according to fire Chief Jim Gould. The overdrawn account will be covered by the selectmen contingency funds.