The Bradford, Vt., special Town Meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on May 26 in the Bradford Academy Auditorium.

Bradford, Vt. — Voters will once again be asked to approve spending on a new fire engine during a special Town Meeting in late May, after a wording error prevented an earlier vote in March.

The town is asking for $450,000 to replace its aging 1994 pumper truck. If approved, about $190,000 of that is expected to come from a capital reserve fund, while the remainder would be raised through taxes and grant money.

“The firetruck is just sort of a leftover article from Town Meeting in March,” Selectboard Chairman Ted Unkles said.

Voters were presented with a warning article asking for the funds earlier this year, but wording on the article left out “financed over a period of five years.” That left voters with a conundrum. They couldn’t amend the article because state law prevents floor amendments from changing an article’s funding method, but they also couldn’t pass it because that would force taxpayers to raise the engine money in a single year.

At Town Meeting, tax collector Jennifer Rivers calculated such a large bill could add $106 in extra taxes to a home assessed at $100,000. That’s why voters tabled the measure, Unkles said, and agreed to come back for a special meeting.

Bradford residents will also be asked whether the Bradford Public Library should continue to use money appropriated at an earlier Town Meeting for repair projects. Voters approved $250,000 in funding for masonry work and to help replace the 120-year-old Woods Library Building’s slate roof in 2015.

But the library trustees didn’t expect to use all of those funds. Through fundraising and selling some assets, the trustees promised to reduce the taxpayers’contribution, Unkles said. They did so, he said, but would still like to use the remaining $50,000 for additional repairs.

Library treasurer Bud Haas said the repair project hasn’t yet been finished, and the trustees are hoping to complete repair work to its chimney and repoint the brickwork. An estimate from one contractor would use the remaining money approved at the 2015 Town Meeting, Haas said, but there’s also a chance savings could be found on staging and lifts for the chimney project.

Unkles said the library’s use of the remaining funds should be determined by residents, since they originally granted the money more than a year ago.

Tim Camerato can be reached at tcamerato@vnews.com or 603-727-3223.