Cambridge

Election of officers and the adoption of a budget will be up to voters at the annual town meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 3, in the town office.

Longtime SAD 4 director Larry Davis does not plan to run for the office this year, so residents will need to elect another representative, according to Bernard Watson, first selectman.

Residents also will elect three selectmen, three planning board members, three appeals board members, a director of emergency management, a town clerk, a HAD 4 director, a road commissioner, a director of the Harmony Regional Ambulance Service and a snowmobile trail committee.

The proposed 2007-08 budget reflects about the same spending as last year, Watson said Tuesday.

“We squeak by and we don’t waste anything,” Watson said.

Selectmen have recommended spending $15,000 for the Fire Department; $56,000 for snow removal, $20,000 for summer roads; $25,650 for the Mid Maine Solid Waste Association; $10,000 to replace culverts; and $6,345 for general assistance.

Residents also will vote to use $15,000 from the surplus account to reduce the 2007 tax commitment.

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At the annual town meeting residents will decide the fate of the Courser Memorial School pending the outcome of the SAD 46 district referendum on a new kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school.

The meeting will start at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 3, in the Grange Hall.

If the referendum is passed, school directors intend to offer the town the school building.

Residents will be asked to increase the property tax levy limit of $12,000 in the event all of the funding articles are approved. That is the tax limit established for the town by state law.

Elections for a town clerk, a selectman, a treasurer, an administrative assistant, tax collector, excise tax collector, a cemetery committee member, two planning board members and two appeals board members will be held.