LIVERMORE – Voters will be asked Wednesday if they will authorize the town to buy a new dump truck with a plow for $109,100 and finance the cost over five years.

Residents have 51 articles to vote on at the annual town meeting at 7 p.m. June 10 at the Livermore Elementary School on Gibbs Mill Road.

Elections for town and school officials and a yes or no referendum for a $9.4 million school budget will be held at the polls from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 9, at the town office.

There are no contested races. Selectpersons Grace Jacques and Wayne Timberlake and SAD 36 Director Cindy Young are seeking re-election. Newcomer Diane Gould is seeking election to a vacant SAD 36 seat.

The proposed municipal budget is $891,707 to run town government for the 2009-10 fiscal year, select board administrative assistant Kurt Schaub said.

The net budget reflects a $134,679 decrease from the current budget and also restores $50,000 to the undesignated surplus fund. The fund was tapped last year to cover unforeseen expenses, including high fuel costs.

“The goal of this budget was to reduce the amount of taxes needed to run the town even with projected cuts in state funding and lower excise taxes,” Schaub said.

Schaub said the truck article, No. 23, is nonbudgetary since the first payment would not come due until the 2010-11 budget year.

The select board wants to replace a 1999 Chevrolet dump truck with plow with a comparable truck.

The plan is to keep the sander on that truck.

“We are trying to maintain these trucks on a rotation to keep repair costs under control,” Schaub said.

The interest, estimated at a maximum 4 percent, would add $13,434.09 to the $109,100 price of the truck over five years, Schaub said. That would bring the total cost to $122,534.09, he said.

The town currently has $220,628.05 in outstanding bonds.

Another article voters face is one initiated by a citizens petition to see that work outsourced by the town goes to public bid for items worth more than $2,500 if it is not an emergency. The intent is to save the town money and give local business equal opportunity to obtain work from the town.

The select board adopted a policy addressing purchasing after the petition was submitted.