The Mattapoisett Special Town Meeting has a brief 10 items on its agenda that include improvements for cyclists and pedestrians, funds to increase public safety staff and housekeeping items.

Special Town Meeting is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 21 at 6:30 p.m. at the Old Rochester Regional High School auditorium.

Registered Mattapoisett voters will be asked to approve $45,000 in funding to make improvements in town that deal with traffic, pedestrian and cyclist safety.

The proposal is to use part of the funds for speed signs at Mattapoisett Bike Path crossings on Mattapoisett Neck Road and Brandt Island Road.

The goal is to reduce the speed of cars at those often dangerous intersections.

If approved, the funds will also be used to purchase a new speed monitoring trailer that can be placed anywhere in town to alert drivers of their speed.

Another item up for a vote will ask voters to appropriate almost $31,000 to help fund two new positions, one at the police department and fire department.

Normally, Selectmen said they do not like to add new positions during the Fall Town Meeting as they were not originally included in the budget passed in May. Both positions, however, have a safety and time element.

Police Chief Mary Lyons said $20,000 is needed to send a new officer to required training so that person can “back fill” a position left open by the school resource officer, who spends much of his time at Old Rochester Regional.

“We have to get someone in the next academy or we will have to get someone to do overtime,” said Lyons.

Selectmen backed the added position but also suggested that all three towns contribute to the school resource officer as they do for other ORR-related items.

“I think that makes all the sense. Then it’s recognized as a true school cost,” said Town Administrator Mike Gagne.

An additional $10,000 is requested from Fire Chief Andy Murray for a new full-time firefighter.

Murray said his department only has two full-time employees, and with so many on-call firefighters unavailable during the days, there could be insufficient coverage in the event of an emergency.

Murray said only three people were immediately available for a major house fire last winter, two of whom had just come off another call. There was no one at dispatch either.

The chief was on the ground while an 18-year-old new recruit went into the house with a veteran.

“If something had happened to them, no one would have been able to save them,” said Murray.

A $300,000 appropriation for road improvements is also on the list. The annual request funds spring and summer roadwork in town.

Another item on the agenda is whether or not to OK $25,000 for waterfront improvements, which would be taken from the waterfront enterprise fund’s earnings if approved by majority vote.

There will also be a vote on appropriating $200,000 from free cash to the stabilization fund for capital improvements.