from the Templeton Town website - Selectmen operating procedures policy:

h, Accept the office of selectmen as a means of unselfish service, not benefit personally or politically from the office or outside activities.

So, by being elected to the board of selectmen, and then ask for pay, is that benefiting from being a selectmen? Seems like if you are a selectmen and are asking for pay, you are trying to benefit from the office and thus going against the policy you voted for? Very interesting.