FAYETTE – A tax club ordinance is among the 69 articles at the annual town meeting this month.

Elections will take place from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 10, at Starling Hall. The town meeting will then reconvene at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 14, at Starling Hall.

Selectmen are recommending that voters do not enact a so-called tax club ordinance. Its purpose is to allow residents to make timely periodic payments of their taxes without incurring any interest obligation. Under the ordinance a resident would file an application with the tax collector by July 1 of each year in order to pay their annual property taxes in 10 monthly installments. Anyone who owes taxes from a previous year would not be able to participate in the club.

This ordinance would have to be adopted at each annual town meeting for which taxes are being raised in order to be an option for taxpayers each year.

The tax club was started in 2001. Two people joined that year and only one joined last year. Selectmen are recommending “no” to the club this year because of lack of participation and because people can pay on their taxes any time they want. The current tax rate is 20.5. The proposed budget would probably result in a rate of 20.75, a .25 mill increase. This will depend upon how much new valuation they pick up from April 1, 2002, to March 31, 2003.

Selectmen recommend by a 3-2 vote that the town authorize selectmen to enter into a four-year lease/purchase agreement for a 1.5 ton plow truck, dump body and sander for an amount not to exceed $58,000. If voters agree, they will also be asked to raise and appropriate $16,000 for the first payment.

The municipal budget is up $2,704.75 over last year. The school budget shows an increase of $18,651.77, up 2.2 percent, and the county tax has increased by $12,872, or 16.10 percent over last year.

Running against incumbent Thomas Welch is Martin Rigoulot for a three-year term on the Board of Selectmen. Running unopposed for a three-year seat on the Fayette school board is Tina Mitchell.