The Board of Selectmen has problems with the composition of the Community Preservation Committee.

The board held a special meeting Monday morning to approve the warrant for Town Meeting, but that quickly turned into discussion of why two members of the Marion Open Space Acquisition Commission are on the Preservation Committee. Of the seven Preservation members, five are on other boards or committees. John Rockwell and Randy Parker both sit on the Open Space Commission.

The state’s Community Preservation Act allows towns to adopt a real estate tax surcharge of up to three percent to fund open space, historic preservation, community housing and public recreation. The state matches no less than five percent and no more than 100 percent of the funds raised from the surcharge. Marion’s surcharge is set at two percent.

The Community Preservation Committee recommends to Town Meeting how the funds should be used.

Vice Chairman Roger Blanchette suggested a Selectman be on the Preservation Committee and that the decision be offered up at Town Meeting in the spring. Blanchette argued that the Selectmen have received little information regarding project funding and believes the Board should be more involved.

Clerk Stephen Cushing agreed.

“We don’t know anything going on over these projects,” he said. “We’re not proposing this to get back at anybody. I don’t want to make it look like we have an axe to grind.”

More discussions on the subject will take place at Tuesday night’s Board of Selectmen meeting at the Town House.

The approved warrant contains the three Preservation Committee projects suggested for funding as well as a land and building donation.

Last week, the Preservation Committee recommended three projects for a vote at Town Meeting: the acquisition of 12 acres for the Sippican Lands Trust, a window replacement project at Handy’s Tavern and the hiring of an “owner’s project manager” for proposed Town House renovations.

Also in the warrant is a proposed donation of land and buildings at 13 Atlantis Drive. Selectman Stephen Cushing said the building is commonly known as “The Endeco Building” and was used for transmitting long-distance radio waves. The donation contract from YSI Inc., which owns the property, states the town would be responsible for conducting studies regarding the surface and subsurface conditions and other insurance or legal fees.

Town Meeting will be held in the Sippican School Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Oct. 25.