Nstar is set to install nine new poles on Meeting House Way following an affirmative vote by the Edgartown selectmen at their weekly meeting on Monday.

Selectman Art Smadbeck expressed concern about the addition of more overhead lines; the town adopted a policy a few years back requiring all future electricity construction to be done underground.

“The problem is that Nstar is an overhead company so we build and operate overhead lines,” Nstar representative John Gomber said on Monday. “In this particular case, this is going to be a main line intended to deliver large quantities of power.”

Mr. Gomber said he would work with neighbors to relocate poles as necessary.

In other Nstar news, town administrator Pam Dolby told the selectmen that Comcast is in talks with Nstar to bring cable and internet service to Chappaquiddick. Nstar is currently replacing a damaged underwater conduit in the channel; Comcast has hired an engineer to work with Nstar during the process.

And another town utility issue surfaced during discussion of the accounting system for the wastewater and water departments. An independent auditor for the town has recommended changes so that customer bills are not generated in the same place where payments are made. The auditor recommends that checks be mailed to the town collector’S office.

Wastewater superintendent Joe Alosso agreed with the change. “As far as wastewater is concerned, this is the proper way it should be handled. One department should do the billing and one do the receiving,” he said, adding: “It’s not a tremendous amount of work on our part. I fully support transferring it back to collector; it’s fiscally the right way to do it.”

But water department commissioner Robert L. Burnham and superintendent Fred Domont balked, in part because there was no mention of the recommendation in a draft report from the auditor.

“I’m shocked; there’s nothing in this report, nothing came to the water department within the last year that mentions anything about change of billing,” Mr. Domont said in a heated exchange with the selectmen. “Who has authority to make a decision to not collect and pay in same building? I don’t believe that’s true.”

Part of the changeover involves switching computer software; the wastewater department already uses the software but the water department does not.

“It’s a more difficult program to learn. I think it was designed for cities, not towns,” Mr. Domont said in a telephone conversation after the meeting. “It’s a lot more than we need . . . I just find it disturbing that an audit company has so much say in what goes on in the town.”

The auditor returns Nov. 15 to meet with the selectmen and water department spokesmen. Mr. Domont said he plans to go with an open mind.

In other business, Mrs. Dolby notified the board that three dogs that have been banned from Tisbury are now being housed in Ocean Heights, and the town is seeking legal advice to determine who has jurisdiction over the dogs. “It seems like on this Island if one town gets rid of a problem it’s not fair but it becomes another town’s problem,” she said.

The dogs are Siberian huskies owned by the Gardes of Vineyard Haven, who recently concluded a protracted court dispute with that town over the problem dogs.