BROOKSVILLE – Voters will gather Wednesday night to decide whether to appropriate funds to build a town dock facility at Dodge’s Point.

The special town meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Brooksville Public Safety Building.

Voters will be asked to accept an $18,000 grant awarded to the town through the Maine Department of Transportation Small Harbor Improvement Program and to appropriate another $18,000 from the town’s surplus account for the estimated $36,000 dock project.

The town-owned property, located on Dodge’s Point at the end of Town Landing Road in West Brooksville, was donated to the town about 15 years ago and already has a boat ramp at the site, according to Selectman Richard Bakeman. The proposed project would install five floats with a ramp from the shore. Four of the floats would measure 20 by 8 feet, with the end float measuring 14 by 22 feet, Bakeman said Monday.

The project is part of a continuing effort to increase public access to the water, he said.

“We’re surrounded by water – we’re almost an island, but there are not very many places where people can put a boat in or go fishing,” he said.

The town previously developed a similar dock system at town-owned property in South Brooksville.

Although the DOT has awarded the grant, the town still needs to provide some paperwork before work can begin on the dock system. If voters approve the funding Wednesday, the selectmen hope to have the dock system installed sometime this summer, Bakeman said.

The warrant for the special town meeting also asks voters to approve three end-of-the-year transfers in the school budget. The school department proposes transferring $1,000 from accounts with a surplus to the student transportation-salaries account; $700 to special education-salaries account; and $3,800 to the special education-nonsalaries account.