WOODSTOCK – When the annual town meeting convenes Monday, voters face a 49-article warrant mostly pertaining to the municipal budget.

That budget includes a $66,667 increase in spending from 2006 for a proposed budget of $1.1 million.

Town Manager Vern Maxfield said he and selectmen worked hard over the past several months to keep the budget as close to last year as possible, and they are satisfied with the slight increase.

Maxfield cautioned that what will be considered Monday will be the municipal operating budget only, not SAD 44’s assessment or the Oxford County tax. Those figures are not available until later in the spring.

“We expect the school costs to be $850,000 and the county to come in at $86,000, but these figures are only estimates at this time,” Maxfield said. “We do think, however, the figures should be close.”

To help reduce what will be raised through taxation, however, selectmen proposed using $485,243 in state reimbursements, highway capital equipment reserves, excise and surplus to make the final figure come in at $1,554,238. That is $35,959 more than the $1,518,279 approved in 2006.

Prior to considering the budget, the meeting will open with municipal elections. People will elect a selectman, assessor and overseer of the poor, a school director for SAD 44 and two trustees for Whitman Memorial Library. All terms are for three years.

School director Ronald Deegan and Percy McInnis are running for selectman, assessor and overseer of the poor. No one has declared their candidacy for school director, but nominations are traditionally made at the meeting.

For library trustee, incumbent Marta Clements is planning to run for a new term while trustee Valerie Billings has decided not to run.

The meeting will convene at 7 p.m. in the all-purpose room at the Woodstock Elementary.

School on Rumford Avenue.