DURHAM — Selectmen and the Budget Committee are recommending a municipal budget of $2,283,765 for 2011, and if that amount and the town’s recommended share of the school budget are approved, the tax rate would rise 35 cents to $13.40.

Voters will act on the 58-article warrant at the annual town meeting Saturday, starting at 9 a.m. at the Durham Community School gym at 654 Hallowell Road.

“We (the Budget Committee) basically held the lines and that’s good news for the town,” Budget Committee Chairman Allan Purinton said.

The budget includes a 3 percent wage hike for employees, $610,515 for winter roads, $481,301 for tar roads, $184,730 for the first year of curbside collection of solid waste and recyclables, $40,736 for the fire station payment, and $32,360 for forestry truck payment.

There is also $29,000 to set up the town modular to be used for storage, $15,000 to lease an 8-yard dump truck for the road department, hiring a full-time road department employee (salary to be determined), and an $88,430 overlay, or cushion for unanticipated expenses.

The Budget Committee made no recommendation on an article asking voters to appropriate $59,232 from undesignated funds to cover overdrafts in 10 town accounts.

Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, April 1, at the Durham school gym to elect a moderator and other town officials by secret ballot.

Durham’s recommended share of the Regional School Unit 5 budget is $3,049,000, after anticipated state and local revenues. Voters will decide on that budget at a secret ballot referendum June 14.

The amount to be raised by taxes in the combined school and municipal budgets is $5,825,000.

For more information, call Town Clerk Shannon Plourde at 353-2561, ext. 11.