A year late and still not ready to be occupied, the Tisbury Emergency Services Facility is slowly but surely inching toward completion.

At the selectmen’s meeting Tuesday afternoon, selectman Jon Snyder was appointed to a committee that will concentrate on close-out procedures for the $7 million project which has been in the works for more than three years. The building on West Spring street was due to be completed last July but has been plagued by delays, beginning with construction flaws that were later corrected by the contractor for the project. The 18,000-square-foot building will house the town fire, ambulance and emergency management staff and equipment.

Town administrator John Bugbee told the selectmen at their meeting Tuesday that MV Electricians have begun installing air filtration units that should be completed within seven to 10 days.

“This is a key step into getting into that building as those units will keep the air filtrated and keep the area safe for men and women to work in,” he said.

Landscaping will need to go out to bid again as recent bids came in over budget. On Tuesday the selectmen voted to advertise for bids again in mid-July and award a contract in early fall. Mr. Bugbee and ESF building committee chairman Joe Tierney will work on specifications.

Mr. Tierney also reported that the pavement asphalt contractor, White Brothers-Lynch Corporation, agreed to retest the pavement at their own expense, which should take about three weeks. The first asphalt test failed.

“I heard a rumor that maybe the flagpole will be up,” selectman and board chairman Tristan Israel said.

He heard right; Mr. Bugbee confirmed the flagpole will be installed in seven to 10 days.

There is still no firm date yet for when the building will be occupied.

In other business Tuesday, selectmen instructed Mark Cladianor of Alpha Contracting to find a time for his painting crew to work on the town hall on weekends to minimize the impact on town hall workers from paint stripping fumes. The contractors are currently stripping paint from the building as part of a town hall exterior restoration project.

Mr. Bugbee said the town hall was closed last Tuesday after fumes entered the building from a stripping agent. Selectman Jeffrey Kristal suggested that Mr. Cladianor do the stripping work on the part of the building where municipal employee offices are located on the weekends, and he agreed.

The selectmen also approved a request from shellfish constable Danielle Ewart to transfer $3,050 for supplies and equipment, including 13 quahaug and steamer clam rafts.

“We want to build more rafts this year because we are going to be getting more from the shellfish hatchery,” Ms. Ewart said. “Just today we filled up four and a half rafts with 45,000 quahaugs.”

She said last year they had about a million quahaugs and are expecting to see twice as many this year.

Dawn Braasch, president of the Tisbury Business Association, gave a quick update on summer plans for the town.

She reported that Vineyard Haven will continue its tradition of art strolls on July 29 and August 12, both Sundays.

“We chose Sundays because those are traditionally very quiet days in town,” Ms. Braasch said.

The association plans to show two movies at Owen Park as part of the Summer for the Sharks, on June 23 and July 20, with a projector screen donated by Richard Paradise of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society. Ms. Braasch proposed selling concessions — popcorn, bottled drinks, candy and perhaps snow cones — with profits going to the Tisbury Business Association.

The selectmen approved the concessions pending board of health approval. The food truck Irie Bites will also set up camp, and the ArtCliff diner truck has been invited to come.

Vineyard Haven will celebrate Independence Day with the ringing of the bells again; Ms. Braasch hopes to have the church bells ring this year as well.

“We are trying to celebrate culinary arts, performance arts, literary arts all with the thought of getting an area of Vineyard Haven declared a cultural district by the state of Massachusetts,” she said.

She said she has spoken with the Massachusetts Cultural Council and they believed the town could qualify. In March the council named the first five state-designated cultural districts.