If voters are so inclined, the Mattapoisett Bike Path may get the funding necessary to make headway in the Phase II extension from Mattapoisett Neck Road to the Village.

Town Meeting voters will be asked to approve $39,000 for the design and engineering of the next phase of the bike path from Community Preservation funds, and an additional $35,000 from free cash.

They will be asked to approve three additional articles regarding easements for the bike path to cross private land.

In total, voters will be presented with 37 articles at the Annual Town Meeting on May 12 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Old Rochester Regional High School Auditorium.

Town officials believe the budget is in a good place and said there is even an increase in state funding.

“Seeing it going up is something we haven’t see in quite a few years,” said Selectman Paul Silva.

That’s good news for the almost $500,000 appropriation requested to fund items on the capital plan.

This year the Capital Planning Committee met with town departments and prioritized a list of needs, honing it down to 18 items for the coming fiscal year.

“This is the longest list we’ve ever had,” said Capital Planning Chair Chuck McCullough.

After Finance Committee members reviewed the list, they put the top ten items on the warrant, with others likely to appear on the fall Town Meeting warrant if all goes well.

The list includes $135,000 for refurbishing the #4 fire engine. The 1989 engine will be sent back to the factory for a rebuild.

“It fits very well to get through the skinny roads,” said Gagne, who added that new fire trucks are increasingly bigger and make it difficult to navigate village streets.

Also on the list is $175,000 for a new ambulance, $100,000 of which will be offset with revenue from ambulance receipts.

The Community Preservation Committee also had a number of requests for funding this year, and Chair John DeCosta said the members decided to let voters decide which they wanted to fund.

Among the items is a $167,730 appropriation for the Nasketucket Bay Preservation Project headed up by the Buzzards Bay Coalition to protect a 400-acre swath of land. Around 250 acres of the property is in Mattapoisett with the remaining in Fairhaven. The total project costs approximately $5.5 million with funding from Fairhaven, grants and other sources. In November, Special Town Meeting voters approved $387,500 towards the project.

Mattapoisett Recreation is also requesting $105,000 from Community Preservation, $50,000 to restore and rehabilitate the Town Beach House and the rest to construct a “tot lot” adjacent to the new tennis courts on Hammond Street where small children can play.

FEMA is rearing its head again on the warrant. Voters will be asked to approve an amendment to a section of the federal flood plane maps that contained a typo when they were voted at the Special Town Meeting last fall.

“It affects absolutely nothing as far as the boundaries of the town or the flood plane districts of the town,” said Building Inspector Andy Bobola. “It is strictly a housekeeping error that was unfortunately not caught in November ’13.”

Road repairs will continue this summer, and voters will be asked to approve $200,000 for the fourth phase of the ongoing renovations. The funds along with money from the sale of tax titles and state funding will go towards work on Barstow Street, Mechanic Street and adjacent sidewalks.

The final article is also the only one brought by citizens. Petitioners will ask voters to approve a sewer tie-in at a lot on Antassawamock Road. Gagne stressed that a majority vote would not mean the lot automatically gets the tie-in.

The water and sewer commissioner has the final decision based on capacity, he said.

A copy of the complete warrant is available on the town’s website at www.mattapoisett.net.