ORONO – Members of the finance committee recommended allocating $150,000 in undesignated funds to three capital improvement projects at a meeting Tuesday morning.

Pending the approval of the full council at Monday night’s meeting, the town will make $50,000 commitments to help replace the town’s library and garage and renovate the Birch Street School. The meeting is set for 7:30 p.m. in council chambers.

“These projects are priorities because they are facilities that all of our citizens use,” committee member Nick Houtman said after the meeting.

Library trustees are looking to relocate the town library to the Byer Manufacturing facility after sharing space with the school library since the 1960s. Town officials are also looking to expand or relocate the town garage due to a lack of space.

The 94-year-old Birch Street School is being renovated after serving as a senior center, thrift shop and public meeting place since the 1960s.

In another item, the committee recommended the council consider the $39,000 proposal by Summit Environmental Consultants to perform an environmental evaluation of contaminants at the brownfield site on Ayers Island.

Committee members asked that representatives from the Department of Environmental Protection and the Environmental Protection Agency be present at Monday night’s meeting to explain the requirements for environmental evaluations.

The cleanup is funded through the $750,000 Brownfield Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund from the federal EPA.