PARIS — Selectmen decided Monday night to find another broker willing to look at the Mildred Fox School before having a more in depth discussion about its future.

The town took over the three-story brick building at 10 East Main St. from School Administrative Unit 17 on July 1, after the district decided it no longer needed the property.

The school has been home to Oxford Hills Christian Academy since 2008. The town just signed a one-year lease with the academy, which is retroactive to July 1. Academy Administrator Steve Holbrook said the school has been looking to buy or build a new home since the discussion about the transfer of ownership began in the fall.

Interim Town Manager Michael Madden told selectmen that the Portland-based Dunham Group had requested blueprints of the building when a walk-through was done in May and requested it be surveyed and appraised, both of which will have to be paid for. Last week, blueprints from the 1940s, when improvements were made on the building, were handed over from SAD 17, he said.

“Didn’t we set aside $10,000 for the Fox School?” Selectman Janet Jamison asked. “We heard people at town meeting. They don’t want us to sit on this for a long time.”

Selectman Vic Hodgkins wondered if the town needed to spend that money. He said when a house is put on the market, it doesn’t need to have a separate appraisal conducted, the person selling it would assign a value. He asked Town Assessor Jerry Samson to weigh in on the situation and to help come up with a number.

“The problem with the commercial appraisal part of it, it varies according to the use,” Samson said. “It doesn’t sound right but it is. I could value it as a school but you have to choose what you’re going to value it as.”

Resident Sarah Glynn directed most of her comments toward Hodgkins, because he said during candidates night he wanted to sell the school and put the money in the town coffers.

“I would ask that the board not be shortsighted,” she said. “Last year, the board spent a lot of money getting a strategic survey done of Market Square and one of the areas was looking at the Mildred Fox School for the community.”

She suggested forming a group to look at uses for the school and said that in her work with the Age Friendly Community Initiative, many of the older folks in town wondered what the town had done for them.

“Having that as a gift to the town . . . is something you could use to develop the community,” Glynn said. “I know we’re short on money but there might be some better use of it.”

Resident Peter Kilgore doesn’t want to keep the school.

“Let’s sell it and get it on the books and start collecting taxes on it,” he said.

Other ideas for the school include turning it into a business incubator, apartments, an arts or senior citizens and community center and a home for Norway Paris Community Television’s studios and office.

At town meeting last month, voters approved the purchase of two lots associated with the school — one with a bus loop and the other with a parking lot — for nearly $81,000. The town did not have to purchase the school from SAD 17 because it originally owned it in the 1960s. However, it did have to buy the lots because the other seven towns in the district also paid for them.

Selectman Robert Wessels said he’d like to have a workshop in the near future so residents and others can weigh in on options for the school.

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