DIXFIELD — The Board of Selectmen on Monday tabled discussion on whether to support a proposal to name a hill for a former town official.

Town Manager Carlo Puiia said resident Steve Swan submitted a proposal to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

The 1,329-foot summit, which has no name, is north of Merrill Road, which is off Routes 17 and 2. The southeast corner of the hill is known as Pauls Bluff.

“Steve said that the proposed name was in honor of his father, Stanley Stuart ‘Sonny’ Swan Jr., who served as a town official in the 1960s,” Puiia said. “I’ve been emailing back and forth with someone from that board who said the Dixfield Board of Selectmen has the opportunity to either approve, reject or remain neutral to the proposal.”

Swan said his father served as a selectman for 15 years and as the town’s road commissioner.

“I noticed that the southeast side of (the hill) didn’t have a name, so I decided it’d be nice to name it after my dad,” Swan said. “I talked with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, and they said they’d have to reach out to the state, the town and the county to see if it was OK, and that’s why I’m here today.”

Selectman Hart Daley asked Swan who owned the land he was looking to rename.

Swan said it is Grayson Child, who was at the meeting.

Daley asked Child why it’s called Pauls Bluff.

“I’m not sure,” Child said. “I had no idea about any of this. I wasn’t notified that this was going on …

“Well, if the owner of the land isn’t sure of what’s going on, I think the issue should be tabled until he and Steve have a chance to talk everything out,” Daley said.

The board agreed.

In other business, selectmen unanimously voted to approve the purchase of a $449,984 firetruck pumper from Kovatch Mobile Equipment in Nesquehoning, Pa.

The town voted last year to borrow up to $399,000 for a new firetruck.

“The idea is to put a down payment on the truck using funds from the capital reserves, and take out a bond with the Maine Bond Bank up to the amount that the town approved last year,” Puiia said. “The reserves currently has around $93,000, so there’s enough to cover the truck.”

Puiia said the next step would be to discuss financing options for the purchase of the truck.

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