GRAFTON — Voters will be asked to approve a $1.2 million budget, which is about $7,000 less than last year’s approved operating budget.

Voters will also be asked to approve $50,000 for paving town roads and $345,000 for a lease-to-own purchase agreement for a new grader. That includes a down payment and a first-year payment of $47,117. The Selectboard has recommended the purchase, but the Budget Committee does not.

Another article asks voters to change the name and purpose of the Recreation Field Shelter Capital Reserve Fund to the Library Building Capital Reserve Fund in order to expand the current Grafton Public Library or to build a new one at 2 Library Road, a parcel of land that was donated to the town in 2016. According to minutes from the town’s deliberative session last month, the fund has $42,000 in it that has not been used, which was funded by taxpayer dollars and donations.

An article submitted by Friends of Grafton Library is also asking voters if they support building a new library at 2 Library Road in an advisory, non-binding resolution.

“It’s essentially for us to gauge the receptiveness of the town, of the community,” Stacey Glazier, director of the library. “Is that type of building something they’re interested in?”

Glazier stressed the Library Board of Trustees and the Friends of the Grafton Library are still very much in the planning stages of how to improve the library’s building, whether that be through expanding the current structure or building a new one.

“The first thing we’re going to do … is come up with a strategic plan for the library moving forward,” she said. “As of right now, we do not have a timetable.”

The Friends of Grafton Library also submitted an article asking residents to repeal a town policy that prohibits open containers of alcohol on town property and replace it with a no-cost permitting process that would be subject to approval from town officials.

Cindy Kudlik is running unopposed for a three-year term on the Selectboard. Selectboard chairman Leon Dugan is not seeking re-election.

Voting by Australian ballot for Town Meeting will run from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, at the Grafton Fire Station.