DURHAM — The municipal election and annual town meeting will take place Friday and Saturday, April 6 and 7.

Voters will assemble at the Durham Community School at 7:45 a.m. Friday and the meeting will be called to order at 8 a.m. A moderator will be elected and the meeting will adjourn to the polls for the election of officers. The polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

One selectman and two Budget Committee seats will be filled by write-in votes.

Seeking re-election are: longtime Tax Collector and Treasurer Pauline Paradis for one year; Terry Kirk for three years on the Budget Committee; and Candace Decsipkes for three years on the RSU 5 Board of Directors. All are unopposed.

Absentee ballots are available. Call Town Clerk Shannon Plourde at 353-2561 ext. 11 for more information.

Voting on the 49-article warrant will get under way at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Community School.

Selectmen are proposing to spend $2,600,155, which is $37,969 more than this year’s budget. After subtracting revenues and other funds, it leaves $1,344,908 to be collected in local property taxes.

The Budget Committee is recommending voters spend $2,572,927, $10,741 more than this year.

The spending differences between selectmen and the Budget Committee are:

Officers’ salaries, Budget Committee recommends $191,471 and selectmen recommend $199,673 (no increase).

Fire and rescue capital improvement account, Budget Committee recommends $25,000; selectmen $30,000.

Roads, the Budget Committee recommends $351,628; selectmen 359,828.

The Budget Committee recommends raising $25,000 for legal fees and related expenses if the town approves a petitioned request to withdraw from RSU 5 at a special town meeting June 12.

Selectmen are making no recommendation.

Among the larger requests to be considered are: County tax $356,165; fire/rescue $246,026 (Budget Committee $240,000) roads $359,828 (Budget committee $351,828); capital projects $204,000; winter roads $637,643; solid waste $193,000; administration $145,219.

Voters will be asked to change the positions of tax collector and treasurer from elected to appointed, effective April 2013; and study the feasibility of the town creating a municipal public works department.

The following ordinances will be considered: disbursement to payroll and fees, Property Assessed Clean Energy, lock box, street signs and subdivisions. There are also articles on amendments to ordinances.

The annual town reports will be available at the Town Office on Monday. Copies of the proposed ordinances, amendments and the warrant articles are available there. For more information call the Town Office.