DEERFIELD — At a recent Small Town Summit in the Deerfield Town Hall, selectmen and other officials from several towns set goals for legislative changes they hope will ease problems faced by the region’s smallest towns.

Here are some of their goals:

Keep regional school transportation reimbursement at 100 percent.

To encourage small schools to form regional districts in the 1990s, state law was enacted to provide 100 percent reimbursement for regional school transportation — contingent upon availability of state money.

But since then, the state has never paid 100 percent, and some state legislators want to change that law. With more miles to cover, rural regional school districts spend more than other districts on transportation.

Land issues. Town officials say the state doesn’t provide enough payment-in-lieu-of-taxes for state-owned lands within town borders. This affects towns like Hawley, where at least 40 percent of the land is owned by the state and a great percentage of land is taxed at a lower rate as agricultural or forest land. The group would like to see the state provide more compensation to towns in which the state owns more than 30 percent of the land.

Zip code versus town residency. Because zip codes in western Franklin County don’t always match up to specific towns, state Senate President Stan Rosenberg is working on adding a line to income tax forms identifying the taxpayer’s town.

This is to help ensure that each town’s school assessment is more accurately based on income data of the people living in town.

More flexible regulations. The group wants to ask the state to issue “best practices” guidelines rather than hard rules that are challenging for low population areas.

Short-term borrowing. Hingham secured legislation that would allow one-year borrowing for 20 years, plus the ability to make principal payments at any point. Town officials hope the same provision will be included in the Massachusetts Municipal Modernization Act, to allow more flexibility for other towns.

The state has enacted the Municipal Modernization Act, according to Phoebe Walker, community service director of the Franklin Regional Council of Governments. She said Franklin Regional Council of Governments will be planning discussions about its many provisions.

The Small Town Summit began in May, when Charlemont Selectmen invited town officials from dozens of western Massachusetts towns to come and talk about common problems unique to rural small towns.

Participants have included elected officials from Ashfield, Buckland, Charlemont, Rowe, Hawley, Heath, Wendell, Deerfield, Leyden, Plainfield, Russell and Middlefield.

The Small Town Summit is to meet again in September.