POLAND — For the second time in as many weeks, selectmen on Tuesday were questioned about what the board intends to do with the old McConaghy house.

“Don’t pull the rug out from underneath us,” Arthur Berry said. “Tell us what you are going to do with the house.”

The McConaghy house, situated between Ricker Memorial Library and the Town Hall on Route 26, was purchased by the town about two years ago.

It was the last piece of privately owned property between the library and the Town Office — and acquiring it was key to the town’s developing a unified municipal complex.

Two weeks ago selectmen told Berry and Barbara Strout — the two having spearheaded a petition-gathering process calling upon selectmen to put development of the municipal complex on hold — that they have no money and no immediate plans to do anything major to buildings in the complex beyond normal upkeep.

Board Chairman Steve Robinson on Tuesday assured the two that nothing would be done without open public discussion.

Robinson also told them that residents at the annual town meeting had authorized the board to sell the house and have it moved off its site, but beyond that, the board had no money and no permission to do anything to the property.

“Another town meeting would be needed to do anything else with the property,” Robinson said.

Upon further questioning by Selectman Walter Gallagher, Berry said he and a lot of “old-time” Poland residents wanted the house to remain just as it is, right where it is.

The petitioners’ intent clarified, the discussion turned to the property’s potential use and what it might cost to render the building fully usable.

Selectman Janice Kimball noted that the town is just beginning to take steps to update and bring the old Town Hall into full service — and here it was faced with being asked to deal with a second building.

Selectmen agreed that if they were going to address problems with the McConaghy house and put it to town use, it should be used to its fullest potential and any work done on it not be just a patching job.

“We need to get off the fence and do something,” Kimball said.

In other business, selectmen:

* Met with Fire/Rescue Chief Mark Bosse who reported that the department’s server, one of the town’s two servers, was down for four days and, while it was brought back to life, the prognosis is that it could fail completely at any time.

Bosse said a replacement would cost about $12,000. Any spending over $10,000 requires going through a request for proposals process, and Bosse said he was requesting a waiver because he believed this was an emergency situation. Selectmen agreed and authorized Bosse to proceed with a replacement.

* Awarded Almighty Waste the bid to provide the town with the transportation of its solid waste.

* In addition to making the customary annual appointments to various town positions and boards, selectmen appointed Norm Davis to serve on the Regional School Unit 16 board of directors, bringing Poland’s representation to a full five-member delegation, to serve until town elections at the April 2016 town meeting.