HOLDEN — During their annual elections and town meeting next month, voters will fill three local positions and consider a proposed $1.5 million municipal operating budget for the year ahead.

In town elections Tuesday, June 13, residents will elect one selectman and two SAD 63 board members, all to terms of three years. There are no election day contests this year.

Selectman Clare Payne is unopposed for re-election to her three-year post. On the school side of the ballot, SAD 63 director Richard Perry is unchallenged for another three years on the board. Arthur Morgan, whose board seat also expires this year, has opted not to seek re-election. Seeking that position is Donald Varnum.

Voting will take place from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Municipal Building.

During the annual town meeting at 7 p.m. the next day at Holden Elementary School, voters will consider a $1,503,589 municipal operating budget for the year ahead. That’s up from last year’s budget of approximately $1.3 million.

According to Town Manager Larry Varisco, about a third of the increase is connected to needed road improvements and to the recent waterline extension from Brewer to Holden’s new business development park on Route 1A.

If Holden’s local education assessment remains within estimates and if voters adopt the spending plan as proposed by selectmen and budget committee members, the property tax rate will see a modest increase.

Based on the information now on hand, Varisco projected that the tax rate would increase from the current $16.20 per $1,000 in property valuation to between $16.50 and $16.75 per $1,000.