SAUGUS – Cemetery Commissioner Dennis Gould would like the Board of Selectmen to make a decision once and for all on whether the Curley property could be used for a planned cemetery expansion.Gould said he is trying to force the hand of the selectmen because the cemetery needs to make plans and the Curly property is the only viable location the commission can see.Gould told the board in December that with only 283 double lots left, the 17-acre Riverside Cemetery is about three years from running out of space.The Curley property is roughly 55 acres, nine of them wetlands. There has been some discussion that the property, located at the end of Water Street, could someday be home to a joint middle school/high school complex. More recently, however, there has been talk regarding a land swap with the Department of Conservation and Recreation to expand Northeast Metropolitan Vocational School.”I’m afraid they’re going to back door a deal with (DCR) to expand the trade school,” he said. “We don’t have land for a new cemetery even.”Selectman Peter Rossetti, who sits on the School Committee for the vocational school, said Gould needn’t worry about the school’s plan to use the property.”It’s pretty much dead at this point because it came out early before DCR even heard about it,” he said.Gould actually raised the land swap issue last December and Rossetti called him on it, telling him it wasn’t meant to be public yet. That announcement by Gould apparently killed the project.Rossetti said he has no plans to block the cemetery’s expansion plans, nor does he think his colleagues will.”We understand it has to happen,” he said. “It’s just a question of bringing something before use.”Gould may have to contend with the idea of a local middle/high school complex but that has already been taken into consideration. When the Joint Committee on Schools first heard the presentation on building on the Curly Property, room for a cemetery expansion was included in the plan.Gould said he plans to go before the board to discuss the issue at its next meeting just for reassurances and hopefully a vote of support.”We can’t allow the Curley property to slip out of our hands,” he said. “We’ll force their hand until they make a decision.””I don’t think it’s any big issue,” Rossetti said.Initially, the commission hit a snag in its plan when it discovered the title to the property was not clear, but since then it’s been determined the town does own the property.”One good thing did come out of that meeting in December,” he said. “It did settle the ownership issue. Saugus does own the land. That’s a good thing. Now the question is what will they do with it.”