The final vote on Freeport’s proposed $9.4 million municipal budget is June 16.

The Town Council will vote next week on an amended 2016 municipal budget that would provide 24-hour ambulance service in town, at an additional cost of $50,000.

Councilors will begin deliberating on the municipal, capital and tax-increment financing budgets on Tuesday, June 16, no earlier than 7:30 p.m., at the Town Hall, as they are scheduled to host a District 1 workshop at the Freeport Community Library, beginning at 6:30.

The Town Council is considering a $9,379,257 municipal budget that is $413,598, or about 4.5 percent, more than this year’s outlay of $8,965,659. By a 4-3 straw vote taken on June 3, the council indicated it favors the concept of more funding for the ambulance service. Also at that meeting, the council decided not to put $20,000 into a reserve account for grant matches.

Town Manager Peter Joseph said that there is now one 24-hour rescue crew at the fire department, and a second truck has 12-hour coverage, plus on-call coverage. The amendment, made by Councilor James Hendricks, would staff rescue with existing employees and possibly new part-timers, but not add full-time workers, Joseph said.

“Instead of one ambulance 24 hours around the clock, there would be two full-time ambulances, at a minimum,” Joseph said. “The biggest change would be the nighttime shift.”

Joseph said that fire and rescue had made the request a year ago, and the Municipal Facilities Committee reviewed it. The committee chose to forward the request to next year’s budget cycle, he said.

Paul Conley, deputy fire chief and acting fire chief in the absence of Chief Darrel Fournier, said the beefed-up ambulance crew would be good for residents. Fournier is on unpaid leave while recuperating from shoulder surgery, and has been out of work for 20 weeks.

“Part of it is the standard of care,” Conley said. “We’re going to be able to put another paramedic on. There’s been many a time when we have had one call, and then get another call.”

The council will vote on a $2,373,600 capital budget that includes $72,000 more than the original, to replace a dump truck and repair equipment for an expanded Department of Public Works. The town will stop contracting out for town maintenance tasks on July 1, and hire the equivalent of two full-time workers. This year’s capital budget is $2,486,500.

The TIF budget of $166,000 will also be voted on.

Joseph has said it is too early, minus assessing numbers, to calculate the impact that the operating budget will have on the tax rate. A 7.14 percent Cumberland County spending increase will add about 5 cents to each $1,000 in assessed property value and a 7.8 percent hike in the RSU 5 budget would add another $1.02 to the tax rate, he said.