MINOT — Code Enforcement Officer Ken Pratt has determined that Joe Hunt’s property on Death Valley Road does not meet the definition of a junkyard.

An email from Pratt given to selectmen by Town Administrator Arlan Saunders on Tuesday night gave a detailed inventory of items scattered about Hunt’s property, including an antique car, a plow truck, a camper, two boats, two snowmobiles, a tractor, tractor attachments, tools and other usable items.

Pratt said Hunt also has several items parked in the woods behind his property, but none of these would quality as “junk.”

“The yard’s not attractive, but the town would be hard pressed to call it all junk,” Pratt advised.

He recommended that selectmen might send him a letter, suggesting he find a place on his property to store his belongings out of sight.

“I will continue to monitor the property, but until it becomes an actual ‘junkyard’, I will not advise the selectmen to take any further action,” Pratt added.

Selectmen asked Pratt to inspect the property after they received complaints regarding conditions around Hunt’s house.

They agreed Tuesday that the issue was dead, at least for the time being.

Saunders said it appeared that perhaps a vehicle or two had been moved.

“Until Ken drops the other shoe,” Selectman Steve French said, “I guess this is it.”

In other business, selectmen signed a quitclaim deed on a sliver of property that is part of Center Minot Hill Road’s old right of way, just above Marston Hill Road, to abutters Harold Bridgham and Lisa Labonte. The land is several hundred feet long and is less than an eighth of an acre. It was cut off when the road was slightly relocated and is important in that it gives the abutters frontage on Center Minot Hill Road.

Selectmen, with Lisa Cesare abstaining, voted not to support a request that the board come out as favoring “Right Choice Voting.”

Selectman Eda Tripp said she feared the measure would prove an added expense to the town should a second round of voting be required if no candidate received 50 percent of the vote.

Saunders estimated that a state election costs the town between $1,500 and $2,000; municipal elections considerably less.

In his report, Highway Supervisor Scott Parker said the summer paving program is winding down and most of the work on Goodwin and Verrill roads is complete.

Parker also noted that his crew has started to prep the town’s equipment for the winter season and is getting ready to put up winter sand.