Ballot voting on town and school candidates will be from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 12, at the James R. Morrill Building. Floor voting on town business, including the budget, will take place at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 16, at the Haverhill Cooperative Middle School. The floor meeting of the Haverhill Cooperative School District will follow.

HAVERHILL — Voters will be asked to approve increased municipal and school budgets and decide a contested Selectboard race during Town Meeting.

The School Board is proposing a $14.8 million budget for the coming school year, a $607,817 increase.

School officials predict the budget will result in a tax rate increase of $1.27 per $1,000 of a property’s assessed value. That would mean $318 more for a home valued at $250,000.

Another article on the school warrant calls for a change in the district’s articles of agreement so that all members of the School Board can be chosen at-large by Haverhill residents.

Currently, board members are elected from either their precinct or at an at-large basis. The vote will require a two-thirds majority to pass.

Voters will be asked to approve a $4 million municipal budget during Town Meeting. The spending plan amounts to a roughly $1.1 million, or 21 percent, decrease caused largely by the completion of several infrastructure projects.

Officials estimate the amount of property taxe revenue needed to support the budget will decrease by about 3 percent to $2.4 million.

Other warrant articles call for an additional $502,297 in spending. About $265,000 of that is slated for capital reserve accounts, while the remaining would go to fund area nonprofits and construction of a playground at the VFW field in North Haverhill.

The warrant also includes articles that would discontinue five Class V roads, sell a property known as Powder House Hill and install a rotating beacon at Dean Memorial Airport.

On the ballot, four people are competing for two open seats on the town’s Selectboard.

Howard Hatch, Gary Hebert, Matthew Bjelobrk and Michael Bonanno are running for three-year terms on the Selectboard, with the top two votegetters winning the election.

Meanwhile, Richard Guy and John Rutherford are running unopposed for three-year terms on the Haverhill Cooperative School Board.