NEW GLOUCESTER — The annual town meeting in New Gloucester will be held on Monday with a voter check at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting slated for 7 p.m. at Memorial School on Route 231.

Voters will be asked to approve a $2.68 million municipal budget, an increase of 1.64 percent over the current spending plan. This does not include the town’s SAD 15 assessment, Cumberland County taxes, overlay, nor the Pineland Tax Increment Financing District.

Also, capital spending through various reserve accounts raised by voters in the past are not part of the total budget that has to be paid by taxpayers.

Capital spending from reserves totals $691,905 and includes purchasing library computers at $8,405, replacing town hall windows at $12,000, replacing the Rescue 1 vehicle at $90,000 and replacing a 1999 plow truck at $175,000.

Also, the reserves will be used to construct a playground at the New Gloucester Fairgrounds for $40,000, purchase two roll-off containers for the transfer station for $21,500 and pay $285,000 to reconstruct Woodman Road. A cistern will be funded at $48,000.

The budget for the first time includes ambulance transport service in New Gloucester that has historically relied on a first-response rescue department and ambulance service dispatch from Auburn.

The budget includes a 7.5 percent increase in health insurance, a $12,000 increase in unemployment insurance, plus known increases in contracted services, dispatch and county assessment, Town Manager Sumner Field III said in his budget overview.

Additionally, projected increases in heating oil, propane, gas and diesel total more than $100,000.

Annual meeting manuals can be picked up at the Town Office during regular business hours.