PARIS — Voters will have four choices to fill two selectmen positions at the June 11 election.

Selectmen Sam Elliot and Robert Wessels, both elected last year after previous selectmen resigned, are up for re-election. Running against them are Budget Committee members Janet Jamison and Michael Risica.

Jamison, a former selectman, said the town has been “in a muddle” since the firing of former Town Manager Sharon Jackson in 2009.

“I’d like to be able to go to bed at night and not worry what’s going on with our tax dollars,” she said.

Jamison said politics has always been important to her and she is sick of seeing taxes going up. “I don’t know how people are going to pay their taxes. I don’t know how they do it now.”

Jamison declined to give her opinion on whether the town should keep the Paris Police Department or contract services to the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office. “It’s such a contentious issue. Everybody has to go and make their best decision,” she said.

Board Chairman Elliot said he’s proud of the work the board has done in the past year, including hiring Town Manager Amy Bernard.

“The town manager has been a delight to work with,” he said. She and the board have helped the town get through rocky times, he said. “We’re looking up as far as the management of the town, and we’re real happy about that.”

He said there was work ahead in cutting costs, and he criticized the SAD 17 school board for not controlling its costs.

He didn’t take a side on whether the town should keep the Police Department. “We have a choice between two good solutions,” Elliot said. “The town will simply do whatever the majority want to do.”

Wessels said he is running again because he feels he has something to offer to Paris. “I don’t know if ‘duty’ is the right word, but I look at it and say, ‘That’s what I can do for my town and I would be honored to help them out in that way.’”

Wessels said there are many critical issues for the town but they all boil down to management. “I think if we are able to continue working on the management as we have in the past year, we’ll be able to keep making progress on all the issues we’ve seen pop up.”

He said the current board has a more cooperative tone than some in the past, and said the board disagrees respectfully.

Wessels said the issue of whether to keep the Police Department was a complex one, and it seemed to sway between people concerned about cost and people concerned about local control.

“If we were to pursue the sheriff’s department for the town, now would probably be the best time to do it,” he said.

Risica, a member of the Planning Board, said he is running for selectman to keep the lines of communication open between residents and the board.

“I believe in openness and that doesn’t seem to be happening now,” he said. Risica said some members of the current board seem to want to shut down open dialogue.

“I listen to people. I’m not there to tell them what to do,” he said.

Risica said he is a fiscal conservative. He doesn’t, for example, believe that town employees should receive a 2.5 percent pay raise when residents are losing their homes because they can’t afford to pay their taxers.

Risica said he believes the town should keep the current Police Department rather than contract the services of the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office.

“We should fully fund the Police Department,” he said. Risica said that once the Police Department is gone, it’s gone for good.

“I feel strongly about it,” he said. “I just want to do what’s right for people in town.”

Staff Writer Leslie H. Dixon contributed to this report.