Alna selectmen plan to give voters a chance to set fireworks rules, set off a town-wide property revaluation and alter Head Tide Dam. All have been issues for years and First Selectman David Abbott said all will be on the annual town meeting warrant March 18.

A town office project will not be, Abbott said in a phone interview Monday. The board needs time to look at all the options more closely, he said. The scenarios a firm recently gave the town ranged in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Abbott does not expect a special town meeting. That would draw a lesser turnout, so 2018 would be the next time a proposal might go to voters, he said.

The board heard from a lawyer in time to offer residents the changes a committee proposed for the town-owned Head Tide Dam on the Sheepscot River. Abbott said attorney David Soule determined the changes would not break a deed covenant that calls for the dam to never be destroyed.

The Atlantic Salmon Federation has sought the project; an ASF official has said it would cost the town nothing. The work would replace a deteriorating abutment and help fish get through, officials and committee members have said.

The revaluation, if approved, might wait until 2018 depending on who does it, Abbott said. The town's assessing agent John O'Donnell can't get to it until next year, Abbott said. But the board could hire someone else, possibly after taking bids, he said. Residents have built up a reserve and may be asked to put more with it to fund the project, Abbott said. The size of any new request has not been decided, selectmen said.

Selectmen favor the work to ensure properties are taxed fairly. Some have been selling far above than their assessed values, members have said.

The proposed rules on consumer fireworks use stem from a 2015 town vote to draft an ordinance. The planning board looked to the state, other towns and residents' input in drafting distance, neighbor notification and other rules. The issue dates to 2013, when former selectman Paul Lazarus asked selectmen to draft rules. In 2015, he gathered signatures on a petition that led to the first town vote.

Town meeting at the fire station Saturday, March 18 starts at 10 a.m., Town Clerk Lisa Arsenault said. Elections, all uncontested, are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, March 17 at the fire station; Second Selectman Melissa Spinney, Third Selectman Doug Baston and Road Commissioner Jeff Verney seek new terms, Arsenault said.