CANTON — The Select Board approved spending $3,828 of the town’s American Rescue Plan Act funds on turnout gear for the Fire Department during its meeting Thursday.

ARPA grant funds were awarded to towns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis it caused.

Board Chairman Brian Keene told selectmen that town Treasurer Patricia Patnaude emailed him Monday that she submitted an ARPA report regarding the $116,100 that the town was awarded in the past year.

Keene said the town has used $94,201 of the funds so far, leaving a balance of $21,899 to use by the end of this month.

In addition to the turnout gear, the town plans to spend $16,570 for a NeoKraft sign to be displayed outside of the Town Office and another $1,500 of the funds on the electrical work to set up the sign, Keene said.

In other business, selectmen appointed Town Clerk Kathy Walker as registrar of voters and Deputy Clerk Aaron Lashua as deputy registrar of voters. Walker was hired as town clerk in May and Lashua has worked as deputy clerk since last December.

Also, Fire Department Chief Jason Vaughan reported that the Fire Department Auxiliary raised $4,122 from their wreath sales during their annual four-day Festival of Wreaths event.

Auxiliary members Shay Sayer, Sherri Vaughan, Linda Gammon, Betty Meader and Dinah Morris participated in the wreath raffle, selling 103 donated wreaths during the event.

Funds from the group’s festival sales have been used to purchase a freezer for the food pantry and several items for the Fire Department such as a dryer for firefighter’s gear, turnout gear, battery-operated tools and other items.

Other funds have been used to help area families displaced by storms, Vaughan said.

In other matters, Selectwoman Carole Robbins commended the town’s Highway Department Public Works Foreman Andy Conant and staffer David Noyes for snow plowing “work nights every storm and holiday.”

She said that the town hasn’t had a lot of storms, “but they haven’t been easy for us.”

Robbins also noted that a Wreaths Across America ceremony will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at Hillside Cemetery on Canton Point Road. A tree lighting ceremony will be held at the Bradbury Memorial Chapel, also on the Canton Point Road, on Sunday at 5 p.m.