NEW GLOUCESTER — Voters at the annual town meeting Monday will be asked to approve spending nearly $500,000 from capital reserves for new equipment and construction projects.

Action on the 35 warrant articles begins at 7 p.m. Monday, May 4, at Memorial School on Route 231. Voter registrations will be held at 6:30 p.m.

The proposed municipal budget for 2015-16 is $4.16 million, or $165,529 more than this fiscal year. Anticipated revenues of $2.19 million leaves $1.97 million to be raised from taxes. The property tax rate for 2015-16 is estimated at $3.56 per thousand dollars of assessed value, a 25-cent increase.

Capital spending projects include $200,000 for a new dump truck, $166,000 for paving, $106,830 to replace Outlet Road Bridge, $50,000 to engineer Morse Road and $12,000 for a roll-off container at the transfer station.

Other spending articles include:

* $139,898 for Emergency Medical Services, a $12,598 increase for supplies because of more calls and for stipends for meetings;

* $200,937 for the Fire and Rescue Department, a $6,616 increase for stipends for meetings and training sessions;

* $140,500 to purchase 4.45 acres at 4 Upper Village St. next to the town garage, salt shed and cold-storage building. The sum of $106,905 would come from a land purchase account, $25,959 from the undesignated fund balance, and $7,644 from the remaining Chandler Brothers land fund;

* $376,149 for selectmen, administration, elections, assessing, legal, unbudgeted expenses and fuel overrun allowance;

* $387,135 for Emergency Medical Services, the Fire Department, emergency management, streetlights and public safety dispatch;

* $730,623 for public works;

* $232,206 for solid waste; and

* $38,000 for the Public Works garage preliminary design and engineering study. The sum of $22,000 would come from taxes and $16,000 from a Cumberland County Community Development Block Grant.

Voters will be asked to approve an agreement with the owner of the Lil’ Mart property at 1026 Lewiston Road to continue to allow encroachment of a shed and a building corner on the town right of way. Lil’ Mart, a gas station and convenience store, rents the property and wants to buy it, which would require the town to continue to allow the encroachment.

Voters will elect town officers at the polls in June, the same time they decide on the Regional School Unit 15 budget.