PERRY – A recall ordinance petition, allegations of bogus signatures, questions about spending money not approved by the town and a selectman lashing out at a resident summed up a selectmen’s meeting Monday night.

It started with questions about truck weight on town roads and ended with residents and nonresidents snapping at one another after the meeting.

The possible construction of a multimillion dollar liquefied natural gas terminal at Split Rock on the Pleasant Point Reservation with a storage tank farm in nearby Perry has led to tension within the town.

The Oklahoma-based Quoddy Bay LNG hopes to build such a facility and is going through a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission process.

And it was that tension that spilled over to an after-meeting exchange between Selectman Dick Adams and Perry resident John Cook, who is against LNG.

Adams called Cook a name after Cook took exception to some of the issues raised during the meeting that pertained to LNG.

As people were leaving the town office there also was an exchange between Washington County Commissioner Kevin Shorey and Cook.

“Why doesn’t John Cook open a company in Washington County and hire people?” Shorey asked. “Just curious. You criticize economic development.”

Cook has said repeatedly over the past few months that he isn’t against economic development, just against LNG.

When Gary Guisinger, the husband of Selectman Jeanne Guisinger, stepped into the middle of the discussion, Shorey asked him how his business was doing. Guisinger owns a photography studio in Perry.

Shorey lives in Robbinston, but owns a business in Perry.

Guisinger said Tuesday that at first he was mystified by Shorey’s remarks. “I was sort of puzzled as to why he was inquiring about our business. Obviously he wasn’t inquiring because he was interested in a nice way,” he said. “But it didn’t dawn on me at first.”

Guisinger said he finally realized what Shorey meant. “That’s when I went outside and told him that our business hadn’t required a $120,000 grant to last as long as it has here,” he said.

Earlier this year, Shorey received a $120,000 grant to expand his Quoddy Moccasins business.

Guisinger said his company has lost business as a result of his anti-LNG stance, but said an even greater amount has been lost because he had not had much time to spend on it. “I do resent the implication, if that’s what he intended, that sort of taunting me or us about the business,” he said of Shorey’s remarks.

During the meeting, the tension that has existed between Selectman Jeanne Guisinger and Chairman David Turner continued.

Jeanne Guisinger asked why Turner had not separated out the attorney fees from the town warrant. She said she would not support paying the Bangor law firm Eaton Peabody the more than $7,000 it has requested because the expenditure had not been authorized at a town meeting.

But Turner said the fees were covered by a $10,000 check from Quoddy Bay LNG. Turner recently requested another $8,000 from the company.

Turner said he would not make separate items for each bill on the warrant and suggested that if Guisinger did not like the warrant, she should not sign it.

“I think you’re spending … illegal money,” she said.

“You keep calling it illegal and it isn’t yet,” Turner said.