BUCKFIELD — Selectmen on Tuesday signed the warrant for a special town meeting next week to appropriate money for the Rescue Department.

The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27, at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School.

Voters at the annual town meeting June 14 slashed $51,585 from the department budget.

Rescue Chief Lisa Bennett has said if the money is not restored, services would have to be cut.

The warrant article calls for rescinding the June 14 vote and raising and appropriating “a sum of money for the Rescue Department.”

Also Tuesday, the board vetoed the idea of having a craft fair on Labor Day, Sept. 1, on the Municipal Center green.

Selectman Martha Catevenis said it was a safety issue.

If people park in the horseshoe drive around the front of the building, emergency vehicles cannot get through, fire Chief Tim Brooks said.

Community Day, including the Labor Day parade, was canceled at a previous meeting because there was no committee to plan it. The parade has been an annual event since the 1970s.

Bids for a new wheeler truck were tabled Tuesday because Selectman Scott Violette said he wanted more time to study the specifications.

Town Manager Cindy Dunn said the new fire and rescue station has had a few delays, including several loads of new soil brought in. She said the town had to use $7,000 from the contingency fund.

“That leaves only $2,000 in the fund,” Catevenis said, and “something will have to come out of the building if more is needed.”

The board appointed Shannon Breton, Amy Stevens and Amanda Brewster to the Recreation Committee.

The board tabled an approval for a cellphone tower on the ball field on Cross Road and asked Dunn to invite Verizon to the next meeting. It was noted that the town should vote on it because it’s town property.