NEW VINEYARD — Voters will gather at Smith Hall on Saturday morning to elect municipal officers, set the 2015 budget and decide on a comprehensive plan.

The 9:30 a.m. meeting starts with the election of five officials. Nominations for a selectman, road commissioner and two Planning Board members will be taken from the floor. A Regional School Unit 9 director will also be elected.

Selectman Niilo Sillanpaa is seeking a three-year term, First Selectman Fay Adams said.

The road commissioner will serve from April through October and act as an advisor as needed from November until March 2016.

Voters will be asked to adopt the an updated Comprehensive Plan, which was originally approved in 1993. If passed, it will be reviewed by the Maine Land Use Planning Commission.

Approval by the state will make the town eligible to apply for grants to help fund the goals outlined in plan. If voters reject the updated growth plan, Adams said, state-level approval will be delayed for another year, barring the Comprehensive Plan Committee from applying for funding assistance.

Voters also will be asked to nominate at least two people to serve on the committee.

Residents also will decide whether to raise and appropriate $10,000 and solicit bids to demolish structures and make improvements on the tax-acquired Ross property near municipal buildings.

“As discussed in the past, it is believed to be in the best interests of the town to retain ownership of this particular property because of its location, and also because of the dilapidated condition of the buildings,” according to the selectmen’s report in the warrant.

The property will provide much-needed parking space for the Fire Department, Town Office personnel and residents, and it will provide better visibility and safety at the sharp corner, Adams said.

Selectmen have requested $9,000 to operate the transfer station, $46,000 for maintenance and repair of summer roads and $186,000 for winter roads. The town contracts privately for winter road plowing and sanding. Additional road-related appropriation requests include $3,500 for mowing roadsides and cutting brush and $6,500 for liquid calcium. 

This year’s proposed town budget is slightly higher than last year’s $411,684, according to Adams.