NORWAY – Voters will meet at the Forum at Oxford Comprehensive High School Monday beginning at 7 p.m. to act on a 46-article warrant.

The warrant will ask annual town meeting voters to approve a $4 million town budget that is under the voluntary LD1 cap, decreases spending by half percent and increases the net from taxation over last year by 5.4 percent.

In one of the few debated budgets before the Budget Committee and selectmen this year, voters will be asked to spend $239,000 for the operation of the library. The Budget Committee recommends $230,500.

Voters will be asked for appropriately $430,164 for the Police Department, but selectmen do not recommend that the town spend $19,000 requested for a shared drug enforcement agent. Officials say the shared officer has not produced enough to make the expenditure worthwhile.

Both selectmen and the Fire Department are recommending that $204,450 be spent for fiscal 2009.

Town Manager David Holt has recommended a fiscal 2009 Highway Department budget of $716,912. The Budget Committee is recommending spending only $697,974. The major difference is $15,000 for the price of sand and gravel.

Budget Committee Chairman Carroll Roth said he agreed that the Highway Department’s budget is plagued by two big unknowns – prices of fuels and other materials and the weather. Those factors have also created a $120,000 overrun which must be funded by town meeting voters.

The Budget Committee and selectmen will also ask voters to approve $20,000 for the repair of Morse Bridge; and funding for road improvements, in town street work, a truck and money for the equipment reserve budget.

A total of $10,000 is being requested from the Sanborn Trust Fund for a contribution for Norway Downtown; $1,500 for maintenance of town gardens and $20,000 for repairs and improvements to the Little Red School House at Lake Pennesseewassee.

Voters will also be asked to approve a sex offender ordinance that places restrictions on sex offenders’ movements.