NEW GLOUCESTER — Selectmen voted 3-2 Monday to sign Regional School Unit 15’s warrant calling for a $7.3 million bond for building construction and athletic field improvements.

Voters will go to the polls Nov. 4 to decide the two referendum questions.

Selectmen Steve Libby and Nathaniel Berry IV voted against signing, despite advice from the town attorney. Libby cited lack of information and Berry said the proposal lacked transparency.

Selectmen are required by state law to sign the warrant, Town Manager Paul First said.

“The board does not have discretion,” he said.

RSU 15 directors voted 9-2 to send the ballot to voters of Gray and New Gloucester. Question 1 asks voters to approve school construction and minor capital projects not to exceed $6.62 million. Question 2 asks voters to approve spending $738,000 for artificial turf for the Gray-New Gloucester High School stadium field.

Resident Sean Chayer urged selectmen not to sign the warrant.

“I’m asking you not to sign the warrant for a lot of reasons,” he said. The school board “lacked transparency and their minds are made up. They are disingenuous; trying to get us to vote on a $7.3 million (bond). We have to take a stand.”

Chayer was told that a home valued at $175,000 in the past nine years has seen a 61 percent tax increase for schools, while the town’s increase has been 24 percent and the county tax increase has been 32 percent.

Selectman Linda Chase said, “It’s not our place to speak for all the voters in New Gloucester. At least this could have been better handled.”

She urged attendance at three upcoming community forums.

In other business, the board took action on the paving budget for Bald Hill and Chandler Mill roads that has a $14,066 overdraft.

The sum of $213,600 was approved for both roads. The cost for Bald Hill is $136,816 and Chandler Mill, $90,850, for a total of $227,666.

The board agreed to fund $51,000 to shim Chandler Mill Road and leave $25,000 in reserve and add the surfacing in the next year’s budget.

The board approved using $23,660 from the Pineland Tax Increment Financing fund to shim coat a section of Morse Road abutting the Pineland campus entrance and Dunn Elementary School.

The board set parameters for the 2016 budget that call for no increase over this fiscal year, no staffing increases unless justified, no cost-of-living wage increases, up to a 4 percent merit increase for staff and no increases in stipends.

The board also agreed that no excessive use of the undesignated fund balance be used and the town manager is charged with looking for creative alternatives.