LIVERMORE FALLS – Selectmen will hold a public hearing Tuesday on a proposed $2.7 million budget for 2009-10. It’s a $354,018 increase from this fiscal year, interim Town Manager Kristal Flagg said.

The increase is mostly due to a request for two trucks to replace three on the Highway Department’s aging fleet, $120,000 for paving, and $50,000 for capital improvements, she said. Last year, no money was raised for paving, but $200,000 was taken from surplus for the work, she said.

The referendum on the budget is scheduled for June 9.

According to a note from Highway Department Foreman Bill Nichols to select board Chairwoman Louise Chabot, the department wants to replace the 1989 General Motors Co. wheeler with many miles on it; a 1991 model with 73,000 miles, most of them from plowing; and a 1989 4-by-4, which is hard to find parts for and they are expensive.

The department wants to get a wheeler plow truck to plow and haul snow, and haul winter sand and gravel, Nichols said.

As for the 4-by-4, “We would like to replace this with a slightly smaller 4-by-4 plow truck that we can use year-round,” he said, and do it this year to avoid higher costs before a new emissions law takes effect.

Officials plan to raise $100,000 through taxation, use $50,000 the department put away last year for a new truck and carry the balance in the department’s budget over, which looks to be about $40,000, he said.

Flagg said she has also included an article on the warrant to raise and appropriate $70,000 for the plow truck.

The hearing will follow a special town meeting at 6:30 p.m. on April 21 at the town office.

Voters will again be asked to consider buying a snowmobile for $8,037 for the Jug Hill Snowmobile Club. The town would use $6,891.74 from surplus and $1,145.26 from snowmobile excise taxes.