WOODSTOCK - When the annual town meeting convenes at 7 p.m. on Monday, voters will be asked to approve a $1,063,802 municipal budget, down $55,680 from the $1,119,482 OK'd for this year.

The figure is just for municipal operations.

When everything is factored in - including the SAD 44 assessment, Oxford County taxes, overlays and deductions through revenues - there will be a bottom line increase of $55,048 to be raised by taxes, bringing the final budget figure to $1,623,935.

Selectmen and Town Manager Vern Maxfield noted that the school assessment is only an estimate at $920,000, up $75,630 from last year.

Maxfield said the estimate comes from discussions with school officials, "But with the school consolidation plan unresolved and problems with the state budget, it is not known yet what the district will be getting in education aid."

The county tax has been set at $103,239, an increase of $8,030 from 2007.

Among the general articles is one for a pay-per-bag waste disposal program. "I see that as drawing a lot of discussion, as there seems to be a lot of opposition, from what I have been hearing through general conversations in the community," Maxfield said.

In municipal elections, a selectman's seat will be up for grabs with chairman Bruce Kohonen running for his second three-year term. No one else has come forward to announce a candidacy, but nominations can be made from the floor.

Other elections include one SAD 44 board member with veteran Marcel Polak running for a new term, and two library trustee posts available: Sonja Davis is planning to seek another term but there is no announced candidate to take Patricia Thurlow's seat. She has decided not to seek another term.

The meeting will be held in the all-purpose room at the Woodstock Elementary School on Rumford Avenue beginning at 7 p.m.