A Wiscasset business may need a new home after two years at Scout Hall on Lincoln Street. Selectmen, surprised that Seeds of Knowledge Educational Center has been using the town-owned building, voted 5-0 on April 1 to authorize Interim Town Manager Don Gerrish to remove the business from Scout Hall.

“Something needs to be done. This is ridiculous,” Selectman Tim Merry said.

Reached later the night of April 1, the business’ co-director Tanya Albert of Wiscasset said she and her business partner contacted the town office in 2012, to ask about using Scout Hall. The person who took the call said to contact the Girl Scouts, Albert said. (The boys and girls Scouting groups have used the hall for years, said Sue Varney, acting town manager in Gerrish’s absence Tuesday night.)

“I just did what they told me to do,” Albert said of the direction given in that phone call two years ago to the town office. “I'm not quite sure what I could have done differently.”

In a memo to selectmen, Varney describes the direction the business received as “perhaps (an) innocent error.”

Varney’s memo states, in part, “I think the person, whoever she was here, heard Girl Scouts and that was all they heard and gave (the Girl Scouts’ contact number) to Tanya.”

Since that time, the business has made contributions to Girl Scouts of Maine, Albert said. No one required it, but Albert said she wanted to give something for the business' part-time use of the building. In addition, the business has cleaned and organized the space, she said.

The business offers after-school and home school students enrichment classes including Spanish and science, for pre-Kindergarten through about fifth grade, Albert said.

The Girl Scout representative Albert was told to contact two years ago was Paula Marcus. Reached April 2, Marcus said she was a Girl Scout cadette group leader at the time, and that she OK’d the business’ use of the building after discussing it with other local Scout leaders. She said she had first told Albert to contact the town, and that Albert told her she had done that.

Neither Marcus nor Albert immediately knew how much money the business has given the Scouts. The contributions were used for supplies at Scout Hall, Marcus said.