TREMONT – Residents will gather next week to choose two selectmen and to vote for a proposed $1.9 million municipal budget.

Also on the agenda likely will be an additional request for funds in order to finish the long-awaited new municipal building.

Plans to construct the two-story, 5,000-square-foot structure have hit a snag, according to Tremont Town Manager Millard Billings.

The three bids that came in last week, added to the $286,000 that the town already has committed to site work and preliminary construction, each total more than the $700,000 voters originally agreed to spend.

“Selectmen are going to recommend raising the dollar figure,” Billings said.

The town office now is located in a 1,540-square-foot space next to the school gymnasium. Most selectmen’s meetings are held in a small multi-purpose room. Closets are stuffed to the ceiling with filing cabinets and folders that hold documents dating back to the 1800s.

“Right now we’re extremely cramped for space for storage of documents and materials,” Billings said.

When the municipal staff moves out upon completion of the new building, the school will move into their vacated space. The school’s plans include creating a band and music room, a nurse’s office with space for a bed, and a special education classroom, according to the town manager.

He and his staff hope to be in the new building by the beginning of December, if voters and town elected officials can iron out the financial details.

Also on the agenda at town meeting:

. Whether to spend $60,000 to purchase land in Bass Harbor, adjacent to the post office, which will be suitable for a parking lot.

. Whether to allocate $75,000 for half the town’s share of one mile of road work on Route 102,

. Whether to spend $129,000 for plowing. Because outside bids all were deemed too high, selectmen have decided to have the town plow the road, and so the money will be used to purchase snowplows, sanders, salt and sand, and to pay some part-time drivers’ salaries.

Billings said more mild weather might be a boon for the town’s first venture into snowplowing.

“If we had a winter next winter like this winter, it’ll give us a chance to get our feet under us,” he said.

All told, the proposed budget for the elementary school is $1.98 million, the town’s share of the high school is $892,000, and the share of county tax is $207,000. Plus a $56,000 overlay, the grand total adds up to $5.05 million, of which $3.84 million will have to be raised in taxes – about $400,000 more than last year. Since the town’s valuation has jumped more than 20 percent, from $374 million to $474 million, individual taxes will go up but the mill rate will go down.

That means that a home that was valued at $200,000 last year now will be appraised at about $240,000 and if the budget passes as proposed, taxes will go up by about $100.

Incumbent Board of Selectmen Chairman Scott Grierson, Alden Gray, Kellie Reed-Carter and Christopher Eaton are running for two three-year terms as selectman.

There are no candidates for the open school board and school trustee positions.

Voting will take place from 1 to 8 p.m. Monday, May 8, at the community center in the elementary school.

The annual town meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 9, also in the community center.