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NEW GLOUCESTER – A special town meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at Memorial School on Route 231.

Voters will be asked to fund several accounts they declined to in May. In addition, they will be asked to fund a wheel loader from a capital reserve account.

At the annual town meeting last month, voters were asked to outsource assessing services as part of articles voted in a block. Instead, they appropriated no money for selectmen, administration, town meetings/elections, code enforcement, assessing, legal and unanticipated expenses. They also turned down funding for insurance, social security/retirement and debt service.

Monday’s warrant asks them to fund seven of those accounts for $385,657. Assessing will be a separate request for $74,512 to pay for full-time assessing services. Selectmen and the town’s budget committee recommend tax assessing be funded at $45,000, sticking to their original request to outsource assessing services.

New Gloucester’s full-time assessor, Nancy Pinette, a seven- year employee, is out on medical leave.

Article 5 includes funding insurance, social security/retirement and debt service at $746,000. However, selectmen and the advisory budget committee recommend $734,000.

Voters cannot increase the funds requested in an article, but they can reduce the amount requested by an amendment.

Voters will also be asked to spend $150,000 from a capital reserve account and replace the public works wheel loader.

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