MINOT — Selectmen on Monday voted to use $10,630 from development impact fees to cover costs incurred by the Recreation Committee to loam and seed the sports field at Minot Community Park.

The vote was 3-0 with selectmen Lisa Cesare and Dan Gilpatric abstaining.

The reimbursement essentially depletes the town’s impact fees for the Recreation Account.

The new fields behind the Minot Consolidated School are complete.

Cesare, who served on the Recreation Committee until last March when she was elected to the Board of Selectmen, said a plan for potential use of future impact fees should be considered.

In other business, Town Administrator Arlan Saunders told the board the town’s auditor had recommended that the town do away with maintaining reserve accounts.

Selectmen took a dim view of doing anything about two accounts Saunders suggested the board consider eliminating: the Highway Reserve Account and the Town Office Equipment Reserve Account.

Board members said the Town Office Equipment Reserve Account came in handy when lightning fried the office telephone system, and has been useful in dealing with computer equipment problems.

“If the money hadn’t been available, we would have had to call a special town meeting,” Selectwoman Eda Tripp said, “and that just increases the cost.”

The board agreed that they should add articles at the annual town meeting each year that would transfer the money forward.

Saunders also reported that paving on Goodwin Road and Grange Avenue is complete and, with the help of the Mechanic Falls Highway Department, the shouldering is also done.

He said that because of cutbacks in the plans, the paving project has a $54,000 surplus. Saunders said they were looking into paving the half-mile section of Allen Road that is in Minot, because Hebron and Turner recently paved their sections of that road.

Selectmen gave Saunders the go-ahead, provided the paving company has the time and the weather holds.

Saunders also noted that Sen. Garrett Mason hadn’t responded to his email request that he meet with the board to discuss the chain of events that led to changes in what voters approved when they voted on the Androscoggin County Charter.

Selectmen suggested Saunders send Mason another email and a letter.

Tripp reported she is looking for donations of nonperishable goods or money to go toward filling Thanksgiving baskets. Tripp said she needs the goods by Sunday, Nov. 15, and anyone wishing to help can contact her at the Town Office or 207-346-0951.