Hanson’s Board of Selectmen and Planning Board Tuesday night opted to appoint the candidates who knew their way around blueprints and the construction trades in appointing the final two members to vacancies on the Planning Board.

All three seats, vacated in July in protest over budget cuts that prompted former Town Planner Noreen O’Toole to resign when her hours were cut for the second time in as many years, will be on the annual Town Election ballot in May.

Selectman Richard Flynn, a past member of the Planning Board was appointed in August.

Up for consideration for the posts were Joseph Weeks of Hancock Street, Patricia Glenn of Union Street and Stephen Regan of Alden Way. All three said they would be willing to run for their seat in May.

Glenn was a unanimous vote between present representatives of both boards and Regan was selected on a second “ballot” after both he and Weeks were deadlocked following a first vote. Flynn voted as a member of the Planning Board on the appointments.

“My own personal opinion is that Regan has more experience, which is what the Planning Board needs,” said member Donald Ellis. “We have a lot of situations with subdivisions in town for various reasons. Town counsel is involved with at least one of them.”

Weeks was a member of the Rockland Finance Committee from 2007-2011, is a community organizer and an adjunct professor of psychology at Quincy College.

“I feel I can make a very good contribution to the board,” he said. “I have past resources, from collaborating with the Planning Board in Rockland and a friend of mine is on the Planning Board in Duxbury, so I will have plenty of resources to help if there are any questions.”

Glenn is a longtime resident of Hanson employed in the construction field as an onsite supervisor for Hanover Legion Housing.

“Just to disclose, Merry [Scozzari] is my stepmother,” Glenn said. “I’ve worked for a contstruction company out of New York for the last six years. I do OSHA regulations, can read plans and feel quite comfortable in this field.”

Regan, who has lived in town for 11 years and has interacted with the Planning Board over that time is a journeyman with 30 years’ experience with Verizon and Bell Atlantic prior to that.

“Construction plans, blueprints, that kind of thing is what I do on a daily basis,” Glenn said. “I’ve interacted with the Planning Board consistently for the past 11 years. I know how they operate, what their requirements are and what they provide to the town. I think my expertise will just add to what the Planning Board needs.”

In their first vote Selectmen Chairman Steven Amico and members James Egan and Donald Howard voted for Weeks with Planning Board members Flynn, Donald Ellis and Kenneth Lawson backing Regan.

After Ellis’ argument for members with construction experience, Amico and Howard changed their votes to Regan.

The situation momentarily stumped Town Administrator René Read and Selectmen.

“I really don’t know, I’ve never been faced with that,” Read said of the deadlocked first vote. “If either Selectman wanted to reconsider his vote, that would be the easiest way.”

After a motion passed to reconsider the vote, Amico and Howard did so, shifting their support to Regan. Egan stuck with Weeks.

“And Joe, run in May,” Amico said in thanking Weeks for his interest and time applying for the appointment. Glenn and Regan were immediately sworn into office by Town Clerk Elizabeth Sloan in her office.

Meeting notes

• Selectmen voted to reinstate an article for the Water Department on the special Town Meeting warrant, which had been rejected last month because it wasn’t included in the capital improvement matrix due to a Water Department oversight. With the Selectmen’s vote, it now goes back to the Finance Board and Capital Improvement for placement on the matrix, if they reject it, Town Meeting will have to pass over it.

Selectmen will vote on recommendations on warrant articles at their Tuesday, Sept. 20 meeting.

• Eight more articles were added to the special Town Meeting warrant involving four union contracts that have been or will be finalized by Monday Oct. 3, two dealing with repairs at Indian Head ($5,500 for fencing) and Maquan ($16,000 for boiler repairs) schools, a transfer station sticker processing software package and a $2,500 highway drainage improvement project.

•Three other articles already on the special Town Meeting warrant were amended and a third was pulled.

• Exemptions to mandated state ethics training were approved for consultants, election poll workers, interns, seasonal employees, senior tax abatement program participants, vendors and volunteers.

• Selectmen voted to opt in to a public works mutual aid agreement.

• Corrine Cafardo was appointed to a position on the Hanson Cultural Council.

• Permission was granted for the fifth annual Public Square Rosary in honor of Our Lady of Fatima on the Town Hall lawn from noon to 1 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 15.