Pownal residents who attend the June 15 town meeting will vote on a municipal budget that, if passed as presented, will be $23,868 or 1.5 percent less, than the amount they approved for this fiscal year, not including revenues. The proposed municipal budget is $1,587,868.

Tim Giddinge, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, said that a decrease of about $25,000 in capital projects accounts for the difference. That, despite an article calling for $12,150 for a new generator at Mallett Hall.

Pownal’s share of a proposed $29,407,203 Regional School Unit 5 budget, meanwhile, would be $2,476,426, which is a 13.6 percent increase. Residents in Pownal, Durham and Freeport voted on the RSU 5 budget on Tuesday, after the Tri-Town Weekly print deadline. The Cumberland County tax is up $21,062 in Pownal, or 16.9 percent.

Giddinge said last week that town officials do not yet know the impact any of those budgets would have on the town’s tax rate, which is $35.77 per $1,000 in assessed property value. Town property will be revalued this year.

“We won’t know the impact on the mil rate until the assessor’s agent is done her work,” Giddinge said. “Sometimes it’s before town meeting, sometimes it’s after. Our mil rate is high because we’re due for a reval. If we were at 100 percent valuation, basically our mil rate would be in half.”

Articles 4-7 on the town meeting warrant deal with ordinance changes, developed by the Planning Board. The articles call for amendments to the land-use codes.

“They’re not a huge deal,” said Scott Seaver, the town’s administrative assistant. “They’re a rewrite of a couple of things, and moving stuff around.”

Giddinge agreed.

“They’re to clarify definitions,” he said.

Article 12 calls for a change in the mobile home park ordinance. If passed, the ordinance would provide new standards for the layout and siting of mobile homes within a park “to promote both individual householder privacy within harmonious community arrangement and to conserve environmental quality and wildlife habitat.” The Planning Board would have the authority to review and approve, conditionally approve or reject any application for a mobile home park, as defined by three or more mobile homes situated on a parcel of single ownership.

Residents also will consider spending up to $50,000 for a new plow and sanding truck, and up to $6,356 for smoke and fire alarm systems at the town’s two fire stations.

There are only 29 articles on the town meeting warrant.

“It’s really a simple year,” Giddinge said. “There’s not a lot going on. Some of the funding things of the past don’t need to be funded this year.”

Municipal elections were held Tuesday night, in conjunction with the RSU 5 budget referendum. In the only contest election, incumbent Selectman Jonathan Morris faced opposition from Shawn Bennett and Timothy Grant.