NORWAY – Residents will vote on a recommended budget of $1.1 million at Norway’s town meeting at 7 p.m. June 14 at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Forum.

In his report, Selectman William Damon said, “I would encourage people to attend town meeting and find out what is planned for upgrading roads in the future.”

In addition to $521,000 for highways and public works, the Board of Selectmen recommend the appropriation of $190,000 for road improvements and $45,000 for in-town street repair. Of the money for road improvements, $90,000 would come from a road block grant, and $30,000 for in-town repairs would come from the unappropriated surplus. The remainder would come from taxation.

Another, nonmonetary, article would instruct the Board of Selectmen to create a tax increment financing district, or TIF, for the former C.B. Cummings mill or the downtown historic district, or both. TIFs are used in areas that will be redeveloped, in anticipation of increased property values. The increased revenue from those properties can be directed into special projects to continue to improve the TIF district.

Town Manager David Holt’s report cautioned residents concerned with rising taxes that “if you do not participate” in local government “then you must share in some of the responsibility for taxes going up.” He said residents “can have lower taxes or more services, but not both.”

Election of town officials will be held at the Norway Fire Station on Tuesday, June 8. Selectmen George Tibbetts and Robert Walker are running unopposed for re-election. Donald Ware is running for re-election to the SAD 17 Board of Directors. Voters will also be asked to elect four people to the Norway Memorial Library Board of Trustees.

About 60 of the town’s 4,566 residents attended last year’s town meeting and approved a budget of $939,000.