ANDOVER – Residents will be looking at a budget increase of more than $121,000 at their annual town meeting Saturday, March 20. It begins at 9 a.m. in the Town Hall.

This year’s budget is $746,005.58, which is a 19.5 percent increase over last year. It does not include the SAD 44 assessment that will be voted on in June.

Selectmen are proposing repairs or replacement to the Town Hall furnace and windows, and repair or replacement of town cemetery fences and paving certain streets.

Selectmen are also proposing $25,000 for property revaluation.

On June 18, 19 and 20 the town will be celebrating its bicentennial, and requests for $8,000 to cover the cost, $1,200 for the town common and $1,500 to repair and paint the bandstand are on the warrant.

There are proposed insurance increases for town employees.

Selectman Laura Hutchins is running for re-election to a three-year term. She has served for a total of nine years. Before that she was town clerk, treasurer and tax collector for four years.

Jerry Savitz is also running for the board. He said he was approached by several people who asked him to consider running.

“I just want to make my services available to the town,” he said.

He and his wife retired to Andover from New Jersey in 1996 because it “felt like the right place to be.”

In New Jersey he was executive director of a nonprofit organization he founded called, Friends of the Park. He was also the principal park naturalist. He has been in charge of gardens at Andover Old Home Days.

No one is running for SAD 44 director for a three-year term.

The election will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 23.