Southwest Harbor

The annual town meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at the Pemetic Elementary School gymnasium.

Selectmen will recommend a budget of $6.5 million, which includes a 7 percent increase in school spending and 3.7 percent more for town government.

The town’s warrant committee is recommending a $6.4 million budget, with the major differences being how much money should be kept in reserve for the fire department, and a $12,000 town contribution to the new veterans memorial park downtown.

Selectmen will hold a public hearing before the town meeting at 6 p.m. to give residents a chance to discuss the proposed land use ordinance change on the Tuesday municipal election ballot.

Polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday. Voters won’t have any choices when electing officials this year: Selectmen Pam Norwood and Mark Campbell are unopposed for three-year terms, while Joseph Saunders is unopposed for another term on the Pemetic school committee and the Mount Desert Island Regional High School board of trustees.

Voters also will decide by secret ballot whether to change the standards for parking spaces.

Bar Harbor

Town voters will have to elect a school board member by write-in campaign Monday since only one candidate is interested in two open seats on the Bar Harbor school committee.

Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the third floor auditorium at the municipal building on Cottage Street. The annual town meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the same location.

Brian Hubbell is running unopposed for one of two school board seats and there are no candidates for the second vacancy. Meanwhile, Town Council incumbents David Bowden and Valerie Scott are being challenged by Bruce Foss for two seats on the council.

Robert Webber is running for a seat on the Mount Desert Island Regional School District board of trustees.

Voters will be asked to approve a budget of about $13.9 million, including $3.9 million for the elementary school and $2.1 million for the town’s share of the regional high school budget.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Liz Chapman