BUCKFIELD — Residents will decide Wednesday night whether to restore $51,585 cut from the Rescue Department budget in June.

The special town meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School.

Voters have two options: Not to rescind the earlier vote; rescind it and restore the requested $186,585.

Selectmen asked Rescue Chief Lisa Bennett to prepare a report showing what the cut means. She said personnel would be reduced and there would be no rescue service between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. Monday through Friday and no weekend coverage. There would also be a loss of billing revenue and probable loss of Sumner and Hartford contracts for rescue service.

Bennett’s report also said if Med-Care Ambulance Service in Mexico provided service it would cost Buckfield $275,000 a year. Other area providers said they would not consider servicing the town, according to the report.

Town Manager Cindy Dunn provided an information sheet that said if voters choose the first option, service would be reduced by as much as 65 percent, billing revenue would be reduced by $57,000 and rescue service contracts with Sumner and Hartford could be terminated, resulting in a loss of $8,050 for Buckfield.

If the first option is approved, the tax rate would be $20.80 per $1,000 of assessed property value. A property valued at $125,000 would be billed $2,600, of which $103 would be for rescue service, according to the information sheet.

If the second option is approved, rescue services would continue 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Dunn’s information stated. The tax rate would be $20.65 per thousand dollars of property value. For property assessed at $125,000, taxes would be $2,581.25, of which $88.35 would be for rescue service, according to the sheet.

Selectman Scott Violette said, “It’s not that I don’t want to give them money, but when I question the rescue budget, I’m accused of not wanting to give them money. I’ll do what the town wants. Everybody wants to cut taxes. There has to be another way to run rescue rather than taxing people.”

Resident Charles Berg said the Rescue Department has increased its budget over the past two years by 37 percent, and it bothers him there were budget overruns that did not seem to be addressed by town officials.