Alna has received the $2,000 grant the Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission awarded last spring, to help the town figure out options for a town office, selectmen said Aug. 10. Now the board can tap the money to hire a design consultant, members said.

It could be an architect or someone else who knows how to think about space, Third Selectman Doug Baston said. The board has been looking at whether to fix and possibly expand the current town office, a cape that was once a home; or move across the road and into the fire station on the opposite side of Route 218.

“We would have to do quite a lot of work on this place” if the office stays put, First Selectman David Abbott said.

Selectmen have said voters will have the final say on any proposal, and the sale of the cape if the town office moves. The consultant’s preliminary designs will show what would need to be done at the fire station to add the town office and, alternatively, how the cape could be altered for a better functioning town office, members said.

Also Aug. 10, selectmen reported that the interest and penalties for the town’s 2014 payroll tax issues with the Internal Revenue Service topped $2,000. The town hired Bath accountant William Brewer in 2015 to amend the payroll filings and address record-keeping errors. According to Brewer’s letter to the board, interest and penalties totaled $2,263.51. The town overpaid those costs while the amount was still being determined and has a $5,494.37 refund coming, according to selectmen and the letter.

Selectmen said Road Commissioner Jeff Verney will be getting them an estimate on repairs to Rabbit Path Road. A skidder being unloaded onto the road near a logging site damaged the surface and broke some of the pavement near the shoulder, according to board members. They said they plan to contact the logging contractor to cover the repair cost. The contractor’s name was not immediately available.

Before adjourning, selectmen shared stories of their recent sporting contests and encounters with stinging insects. Abbott was the defending champion in a state archery championship, but finished fourth after a yellow jacket came near his ear just as he was about to shoot at a target. “I flinched,” he said, adding that he still managed to tie his winning score from last year.

Baston said he was at camp in Vienna when he came upon a nest of ground hornets. “I was walking. And then I was running,” he said. There were several hornets but he only got stung once, he said.

Second Selectman Melissa Spinney took third in a she-man competition at Monmouth Fair. The challenges included hauling and throwing logs. Referring to Abbott’s fourth in the archery event in Skowhegan, Spinney told Abbott, “I beat you.”

The board meets next at 6 p.m. Aug. 24 at the town office.