NORTH HAVEN – Islanders will consider resurfacing all paved roads and a six-month moratorium on subdivisions when they gather Saturday for the annual town meeting.

The session begins at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 11, at the Community Building.

During the meeting town officers will be elected from the floor, including two three-year selectmen positions now held by Linda Darling and John Waterman and a three-year SAD 7 director’s seat held by David Cooper.

All three incumbents are seeking re-election.

For the paving project, the town is proposing to borrow $1.75 million through the Maine Municipal Bond Bank for 15 years at roughly 4.5 percent interest, Town Administrator John Marcarelli said Thursday. The town would also use $500,000 from a paving reserve account.

Island roads have not been repaved in 15 years, he said, noting the state has offered to assist the town while the state is resurfacing the one state-owned road on North Haven. The deal gives the town more buying power for asphalt, which comes from Vinalhaven, and for transporting it to the island.

“It’s just about every paved road on the island,” Marcarelli said of the 17 miles.

A moratorium on subdivisions Marcarelli describes as a “proactive” approach by the planning board, noting the town is updating its comprehensive plan and will be doing the same with its land use and subdivision ordinances.

Article 32 reads “the moratorium is needed, because the application of the existing comprehensive plan, the land use ordinance, and the subdivision ordinance of the town is inadequate to prevent serious public harm from residential and commercial development in the town of North Haven.”

The municipal budget to be voted on is $1,168,820, a 7.6 percent increase over last year. After subtracting revenues and surplus totaling $424,725, the amount to be raised from property taxes is $744,095, up 7.49 percent.

Neither Knox County nor SAD 7 assessments for 2006 have been determined. Last year, the amount paid to the county was $262,380 and to SAD 7, $1,280,004.

Marcarelli did not yet know what effect the budgets would have on the island’s tax rate, which for 2005 is $10.05 per $1,000 of assessed value.

In the proposed 2006 budget, the town administrator’s salary is $55,000 per his contract. Marcarelli started in December as the top administrator.

Employees are slated to receive 3.5 percent pay raises in the coming year.

Voters will consider buying a dump truck with a plow and sander. The package deal is estimated to cost $135,000.