It cost the town of Tisbury more than $11,000 to raise the harbor patrol boat that sank at its Owen Park berth last month.

Selectmen voted Tuesday to transfer $11,325 from the town’s reserve fund to pay the bill for pulling the 30-foot vessel off the harbor bottom.

The patrol boat, which was insured, was purchased for about $250,000 with a federal port security grant, Tisbury harbor master John Crocker told the Gazette shortly after the mysterious Oct. 3 sinking.

Also Tuesday, Tisbury selectmen appointed David Thompson as the town’s wastewater superintendent, a position directly under the public works department that also works with the sewer advisory board.

Mr. Thompson comes to Tisbury after a long career supervising Edgartown’s wastewater plant.

“We have great customer relations in Edgartown and I’m hoping to bring some of that to Tisbury, among other things,” Mr. Thompson told the board of selectmen during their regular meeting at Katharine Cornell Theatre.

“I have a long experience with a nitrogen mitigation watershed based plan in Edgartown. We’ve got about 15 years of that behind us now, and we’re starting to see results,” continued Mr. Thompson, who said he wanted to apply his experience to Tisbury’s water bodies, particularly Lake Tashmoo.

“I’m hoping that we can make some progress turning that around,” he said of the nitrogen-loaded lake.

“It’s going to be a long haul. It took us 15 years in Edgartown just to turn the corner,” Mr. Thompson said.

A discussion of the town’s host agreement with prospective marijuana retailer Patient Centric was brief. Selectmen designated board member Jeff Kristal to work with town administrator Jay Grande and town counsel to finalize the agreement for discussion and action at a public meeting in December.

December is also when selectmen plan the first of two public hearings related to the sale of alcohol in Tisbury.

Dec. 3, the topic will be one-day licenses for alcohol sales, such as an oyster festival planned by a local event promoter to take place at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum next year. Board chairman Melinda Loberg said the town currently lacks a process for issuing single-day licenses.

A hearing tentatively scheduled for the selectmen’s first 2020 meeting, Jan. 7, will take up Mr. Kristal’s request to consider relaxing the meal requirement for alcohol service in Tisbury.

“We’re in competition with Oak Bluffs and Edgartown and while I don’t want to be a bar town, there’s still revenue we’re leaving on the table — a considerable amount of revenue,” Mr. Kristal said.

“It’s kind of embarrassing . . . We’re telling people they’re not allowed to have a beer before they leave the Island after a week’s vacation,” he said.

“It’s not a party, it’s not increasing hours, it’s not about live entertainment — it’s just about modifying the food requirement,” Mr. Kristal said.

In other business Tuesday, selectmen appointed:

• Julia Levesque as a temporary traffic officer, at the request of police chief Mark Saloio, to replace an officer recovering from surgery;

• Micah Agnoli and Christina Colorusso as director and assistant director, respectively, of emergency management;

• Jean Hay, Victor Capoccia and Lesley Segal to the new town affordable housing committee.

Three businesses were granted license renewals: common victualler Nat’s Nook and the lodging houses Nobnocket Boutique Inn and Greenwood Inn.

Selectmen meet next Nov. 19, which is their last meeting this month.