LAKEVILLE — Approval of next year’s nearly $36 million municipal budget, design costs for a new fire station and a citizen’s request to prohibit residents from simultaneously serving on certain town boards are some of the issues that voters will be asked to weigh in on at Lakeville’s Town Meeting.

The meeting will be held on Monday, June 10, at 7 p.m. in the Apponequet Regional High School Auditorium. A Special Town Meeting will occur at the same location at 6:30 p.m., where voters will be asked to authorize the use of remaining money in the current town budget to pay for capital projects. 

The proposed $35,855,026 budget represents a 4.46% increase over the current budget, according to Interim Town Administrator Robert Nunes.

Of that sum, $17,061,325 is allocated to Lakeville’s school budget, which has been a controversial part in the town’s budget discussion since the discovery of a nearly $800,000 shortfall in the Freetown-Lakeville School District’s budget.

Voters will be asked to authorize $2,754,850 for general government expenses, $4,978,954 for public safety and $292,770 for the park enterprise budget, among other spending requests. 

The town is also seeking residents’ approval to spend $655,000 for design development of a new fire station, which would be built on Bedford Street at Ted Williams Camp. Design development would include architectural drawings, site and floor plans and mechanical drawings, said Nunes. 

The design phase will not be funded through taxation, but with money transferred from the Capital Stabilization Fund, Nunes has said.

If voters give the green light to design development, the project will move on to the construction phase, which would need to be funded through a debt exclusion, said Select Board Chair Lorraine Carboni. If voters approve the design costs, residents would then vote at Fall Town Meeting on the $19.5 million construction phase.

Town officials will also be seeking approval for nine purchases totaling just over $1.1 million as part of Lakeville’s capital improvement plan. These purchases include replacement of police cruisers, roadway improvements and purchase of a one-ton dump truck with equipment for the Public Works Department. 

The Community Preservation Committee is seeking approval to spend $20,000 for repairs to the cupola at the Lakeville Historical Museum and $6,950 to upgrade doors at the old Town Hall. Community preservation funds come through a surcharge on property taxes. 

A vote will also be taken on a request presented by a citizen to prohibit Lakeville residents from serving on the Select Board and the office of Assessor or Planning Board at the same time. Select Board members have questioned whether or not the language in the petition should be more broad.