WELLS — Talks of combining fees from Wells Harbor Community Park activity with the town’s beach enterprise fund have been put on hold, at least until the town’s budget process begins.

The beach enterprise fund currently covers payments for beach and restroom cleaners, lifeguards, parking areas, and a fund for beach erosion, among other beach operations. Those expenses are covered through funds from the parking meters along beach parking lots.

Town Manager Jon Carter said that the idea of combining fees from activity at the Wells Harbor Community Park — a hotspot for summer concerts and a number of planned events, and which sports its own beach, pier, picnic areas, a playground, gazebo and other attractions — with the beach enterprise fund has been tossed around in the past.

“This is one of the ideas we’ve had over time as the harbor gets busier and more productive,” said Carter in a telephone interview last week. “Our biggest industry here is tourism, so why not call the enterprise fund the tourism enterprise fund.”

Also included in the beach enterprise fund would be money coming into the Wells Information Bureau as well as through Wells Transportation Center operations.

The Board of Selectmen discussed the options for altering the beach enterprise fund on Tuesday.

“We looked at the beach enterprise fund and then we looked at a model where the town finance director put the harbor activities in it, and that was very sustainable,” said Carter. “Then we looked at another model with (funds from the train station and information bureau) and it was supported, but not as well as if it were just the harbor and beach.”

The possibility of all three entities being included into the enterprise fund will be looked at again later down the road, Carter added.

Wells currently has three enterprise funds, the Recreation Department, the transfer station and the beach fund.

— Staff Writer Ryder Schumacher can be contacted at 282-1535.