Selectmen have begun to place items on the Fall Town Meeting agenda, and on Tuesday they approved, held, and denied, a variety of agenda item requests from the Community Preservation Committee.

Selectmen approved two CPC fund items to go on the Town Meeting agenda. The first was the $34,000 request by the Wareham Historical Society to repair and restore the Methodist Meeting House at 495 Main St. The building was built in 1825 and was moved to its current location in the 1970s. The building is where the Historical Society hosts nearly all of its meetings.

The second was the $60,000 request to create a multi-use, handicap accessible trail system through the uplands at the Bryant Farm.

The only item the Selectmen denied to put on the Town Meeting agenda was a $500,000 request to build six new housing units (three duplexes) at the Wareham Housing Authority.

The proposal was unanimously denied 5-0, and Selectmen brought up multiple reasons as to why it was a poor investment.

Selectmen Peter Teitelbaum said that while the state was offering a $100,000 supplement to the town's $500,000 investment, those numbers should have been reversed, if not completely funded by the state.

"It's incumbent upon the state to carry the ball," he said. "They can't shunt the cost of state programs on local communities."

Selectmen Patrick Tropeano agreed, saying there are a number of other senior programs the town is working on that affect a greater number of seniors at a much lower cost.

"This is no critique of the current Wareham Housing Authority," Teitelbaum added. "I hope the state will give them more help."

Selectmen also pushed a vote on two items to their next meeting, as they aim to get more information on the projects.

One request was for an $11,000 engineering plan at Swifts Beach that would include planning for the playground, a removable bridge to provide access to the beach conservation land, and a way to prevent unrestricted vehicles from gaining access to the beach.

"It's all one project," said Sandy Slavin, Community Preservation Committee co-chair.

Selectmen wanted to consult with Town Attorney Richard Bowen about the conservation restrictions on some of the land in question, before making a decision on the item.

The other request is for the creation of a dog park and small parking lot on one acre of cleared land at Minot Forest. Selectmen want to hear from the town Animal Control Officer, before allowing the item on the Town Meeting agenda.