FRENCHBORO — The election of 14-year-old Travis Lunt as fire warden was one of the high points of the annual town meeting Friday evening.

“He is not your average 14-year-old,” said Sue Giamo, the newly elected fire warden’s godmother, on Saturday. She is also Frenchboro’s first selectman.

Lunt has been an active member of the Frenchboro Fire Department, attending training sessions with Frenchboro’s fire chief, John Lunt, the boy’s great-great-uncle, his godfather, Ross Giamo, and the island’s other volunteer firefighters.

The son of David W. and Debra Lunt, the 14-year-old is also adept at working on the water. He already knows how to handle his father’s 45-foot lobster boat, The Starburst, according to his proud godmother.

In other business at town meeting on the outer island, Sue Giamo said the approximately 19 voters attending gave the green light to a plan to improve just over two miles of island roads. The project will involve borrowing $235,000 over a 10-year period. Several dirt roads will be paved, and some streets resurfaced for the first time in nearly two decades.

Giamo said voters raised approximately $47,000 for school and municipal expenditures. She said this year’s appropriation compares to $82,000 last year. She estimated this year’s mill rate will be around $19.40 per $1,000 valuation.

Of the $47,000 to be raised, Giamo said $4,000 will cover the small payment due this year on the town’s road project and $35,000 will cover next year’s heftier payment.

Giamo said the decline in this year’s appropriation was triggered by the K-8 Frenchboro School asking the town to raise only $7,800 toward its 1996-1997 expenditures, compared to between $40,000 and $50,000 in previous years. She said the school requested less because it has $46,000 in carryover funds from previous years. She said the carryover funds will be applied to the school’s 1996-1997 budget of $61,000.

Giamo said voters also approved the establishment of a $1,000 “merit award” to assist Frenchboro School graduates with room and boarding expenses incurred while attending high school on the mainland.

Giamo also reported she and Daniel Lunt were re-elected as selectmen while Don Osier was elected to the board.