Tisbury residents, having come up with the money to build a new fire house, now will be asked by town leaders to come up with more money, to knock down and redevelop the old one.

The town’s selectmen and planning board members, at a meeting on Tuesday night, all agreed the current building was not salvageable and should be removed as soon as possible after the new emergency services facility on Spring street is completed, around April or May next year.

What they will do with the site after that, however, is still up in the air. Most likely it will become a parking lot, at least temporarily. It remains the preferred site for a new town hall, and could in the longer term fulfill that role, if ways can be found around a number of problems.

The first problem is the reason the old building will be demolished: the site is former wetland, and the current structure was bedeviled by subsidence. Second, there are potential archeological concerns, as the area was once used by American Indians. Third, there are access problems. It fronts one of the Island’s busiest traffic strips, and backs onto parkland, through which an access road may or may not be able to be built.

There have been some tensions evident between the selectmen and planning board over the redevelopment plans. At the previous week’s meeting of the selectmen, the planning board was criticized, particularly by Geoghan Coogan, for allegedly being too slow to come up with a plan.

Much of the criticism, it emerged, was based on misunderstanding; the selectmen believed the planners wanted to commission a new study of the site, at a possible cost of some $20,000 and more time.

In fact, the planning board wanted much more limited work done, simply to properly survey the site and determine soil conditions, neither of which would cause significant delay.

Surveying, the cochairman of the planning board, Tony Peak, said, would probably cost less than $4,000. The greatest expense would be the demolition and disposal of the current building.

The chairman of the selectmen, Jeff Kristal, said the town would probably have to seek funds through a warrant article on a fall town meeting.

There is some urgency to make a decision on the future town hall because currently several town departments are working out of temporary accommodation, which the town is leasing.

But there are numerous complications. For example, there is the future of the Tisbury police department. The building which they now occupy, could also serve as a town hall. If so they could be relocated to the old fire station site. The problem is, because Tisbury and Oak Bluffs are considering a merged police force, the future space needs of the police are unknown.

After long discussion, the boards reached agreement on a number of steps that could be taken. The building would come down, the site would be surveyed, they would take steps to have an archeological assessment done, possibly with the help of the tribe, and would seek advice on whether the terms of the deed covering Memorial Park, behind the site, would allow an access road.

In other business on Tuesday night, the selectmen approved another four applications for beer and wine licenses, bringing the total approved to eight.

The successful applicants were for the Black Dog Tavern, Black Dog Bakery and Café, Rocco’s Pizzeria, and Nicky’s Italian Cafe.

All went through with minimal discussion, except for the Black Dog Café, where the board imposed an 8 p.m. curfew on the serving of beer and wine at outside tables.

They took that action in deference to the objections of Alexandra Cook, whose property adjoins the café site, and who was concerned about noise.

Two of the other applicants, Rocco’s and Nicky’s, also plan to serve at outside tables, but were not similarly restricted, because they are not in residential areas.