TURNER — Selectmen voted Monday night to no longer charge residents $2 per bucket for sand and salt mixture stockpiled at the transfer station.

Selectman Kevin Nichols made the motion and Steve Maheu seconded it. Angelo Terreri joined them in approving the motion; Ralph Caldwell and board Chairman Kurt Youland voted against it.

The fee was instituted last year to stop people from taking truckloads at a time.

“I want to move the sand pile so no one can get a truck in there, and not charge for it,” Nichols said.

Maheu agreed. “I don’t like the idea of charging for it.”

Residents will once again be able to take up to two five-gallon buckets at a time.

The board will visit the transfer station Tuesday to figure out how to best manage the distribution of the sand.

In other news,

* The town’s Bicentennial Bell will have a new home soon. The board voted to purchase the pearl granite posts from Freshwater Stone. The replacement bell will be mounted to prevent access. The original bell was stolen.

* Fire Chief Rodney Guptill told the board his department fought four fires in September, including at Hanson Auto Sales on Route 4. Two buildings and 15 vehicles were destroyed.

“The mutual aid during the fire was extraordinary,” Town Manager Kurt Schaub said.

* The board voted unanimously to give Blanchard’s Cash Fuel of Turner the contract for fuel oil and propane for 2016-17. The town uses about 11,000 gallons of oil and 2,700 gallons of propane for town buildings.

* Selectmen voted to buy a side dump body for the recently purchased truck, along with a front plow and a wing plow from Viking Cives USA. Highway Department Manager Leland Searles said Viking was offering “a better hookup and a better plow.” Nichols, Youland and Terreri voted in favor; Caldwell abstained.

* A replacement road sander for the Ford F-550 truck will be purchased from Morrison & Sylvester Inc.

The next board meeting will be Oct. 17.