Mount Vernon voters on Tuesday have a contest for road commissioner and vacant spots to fill on two school boards.

Voting will take place 8 a.m.-8 p.m. at the Mount Vernon Community Center.

Incumbent Jeff Kent is being challenged for the one-year post of road commissioner by Lee Dunn, who has held the post previously. Dunn is currently the town’s plowing contractor.

There are no candidates on the ballot to fill a three-year and a one-year post on the board of Regional School Unit 38, the Maranacook area schools.

Madeline Snow, who was appointed to fill a vacancy on the board, took out nominating papers to run for the full three-year term, but did not return them.

No one took out papers to seek the one-year seat, according to Rachel Meader, town clerk.

There are no candidates to fill two vacant posts on the Mount Vernon School Board.

Candidate Sherene Gilman is seeking the selectman’s post being vacated by Bruce Inch. He did not take out papers to run again, Meader said.

At the Town Meeting, which begins at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 14, at Mount Vernon Elementary School, residents will see a detailed list of the town’s expenses in the warrant articles.

The proposed municipal budget is about the same as the current one, $1.02 million, said Clyde Dyar, chairman of the three-person select board.

However, he said that because the school costs have risen sharply, he expects an increase in the town’s property tax rate which stands at $15.05 per each $1,000 worth of valuation.

Dyar said it is unclear yet how much the tax will increase because the town valuation has yet to be set.

Among the warrant articles is a request to spend $20,000 toward a $120,000 erosion control project to mitigate run-off into Minnehonk Lake. Dyar said the state would pay the balance, and the Department of Transportation project would install catch basins and plunge pools in the town’s village district to prevent sand from washing into the lake. The town money would help pay for materials.

Residents also will be asked to amend the transfer station ordinance to update it. Dyar said the changes have been approved by both the transfer station and ordinance review committees.

Dyar said the changes encourage recycling.

“We have to get more people to recycle; it saves us money,” he said. “A lot of people are still not doing it.”

He said the transfer station has two compactors which have paid for themselves already, so the town expects to save money on trash disposal fees. The proposed budget for the transfer station is $100,000.

Meader said 1,640 people live in Mount Vernon.

Betty Adams — 621-5631

badams@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @betadams

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