BROWNVILLE – Residents backed municipal officials Wednesday on two funding requests during a special town meeting.

Selectmen will borrow up to $105,000 over five years for the purchase of a six-wheel truck for the Public Works Department.

Also approved by the approximately 20 people who attended the meeting: use of $10,000 from the undesignated fund for tourism development-related activities.

The money will be used for a variety of projects such as signs, construction of a public information kiosk that has already been designed, the town’s Web site and an oral history project, according to Town Manager Sophia Wilson.

The funds also could be used as a local match for tourism grants.

Because the town is in the final round of a Community Development Block Grant process for a $250,000 housing assistance grant, residents voted to accept any funds awarded for the project.

Brownville is the lead applicant for the grant, which includes Williamsburg, Barnard, Orneville, Milo and LaGrange.

After the town meeting, selectmen accepted the resignation of Selectman Steve Dean, effective July 10. Dean has accepted a new job and will be moving from town, Wilson said Friday.

A special election for his term that expires in 2009 will be held from 1 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9, at the town office. Nomination papers will be available on May 23 and absentee ballots will be available later.

In other business, selectmen voted to:

. Take $22,000 from water and sewer cash reserves to upgrade the computerized control and monitoring system for those departments. The cost will be shared equally by the two services.

. Solicit bids for a water and sewer department truck to replace the aging 1996 truck.