HEATH — Sixty-four Annual Town Meeting voters quickly approved all 22 articles on the warrant Saturday, including a $1.79 million town operating budget and a $982,290 Mohawk Trail Regional School District assessment for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

They also readily agreed to spend $125,000 on a Highway Department truck to replace a 2016 Dodge that required repairs and was unreliable over the winter.

The town operating budget includes a 3% cost-of-living adjustment for town employees and a $51,605 increase in health insurance. The budget represents a 7.7% increase that includes: $631,217 for general government, $129,001 for public safety, $27,042 for health and human services, $61,879 for culture and recreation, $146,217 in debt payments, and $241,967 in retirement and insurance payments.

Legal fees jumped from $15,000 to $35,000 for the coming year for an “expensive and prolonged lawsuit” that has been going on since 2004, according to lawyer Mark Reich of K.P. Law. He said the lawsuit involved a property owner who was pursuing a “statutory private way” — a road that was created by an individual or group, but recognized by the community as a public route in some ways. He said results of the lawsuit could impact the ability of others to access their property. One complication, he said, is that the property has been sold to another owner who is still pursuing litigation. “We’re responding to it,” he said.

Voters in this town of roughly 700 people approved an additional $17,500 for a town coordinator transition account to cover advertising, consulting and training costs for the new hire when longtime Town Coordinator Hilma Sumner retires later this year.

Heath’s zoning bylaws were amended, so that all “roads,” “public ways” and “private ways” will now be called “streets” throughout the bylaws. Some residents asked if the change in wording will create liabilities, because “streets” doesn’t differentiate between private roads — which are not maintained by the town — and public roads.

Planning Board Chair Douglas Mason said private roads still require special permits for those who want to make them public access roads, but that frontage requirements for properties on either public or private roads is still the same.

“Do I still live on Sadoga Road? Or is it Sadoga Street,” asked Tom Rabbitt.

“This doesn’t change the name of the road,” Mason replied. “It’s just [street] in the bylaw.”

The eight-town Mohawk Trail Regional School District’s $27.2 million budget is an overall 2.9% increase. But Heath’s share, $982,290, is about 2% less than its current assessment. The town now sends 28 students to the high school/middle school, six elementary students to Colrain Central School and 10 elementary students to other Mohawk Trail schools.

A request to spend $6,935 for the town’s share of a bus that takes Mohawk Trail students in after-school programs home to Rowe, Heath and Charlemont was debated, because this year, only one Heath student made regular use of the bus.

When asked how many students might take the bus next year, Selectboard Chair Robyn Provost-Carlson said it’s unknown. “That no one’s actively using the bus now doesn’t indicate how many will use the bus in the fall,” she said. Town officials said Rowe had provided the bus for free to the other towns for decades before asking each town to pay for a third of the bus’ cost.

Parents said participating in after-school activities is important when applying to college, and that ensuring access to after-school activities through transportation should be a priority. The expenditure was approved, but not unanimously.

Heath’s enrollment at Franklin County Technical School is expected to increase from 11 students this school year to 13 students in the fall, and the town unanimously approved its Franklin Tech assessment of $115,554.

Other school spending approved by voters includes:

■$16,434 for Mohawk Trail’s capital assessment and $3,669 for the town’s share of costs to replace a water heater in Mohawk Trail Regional School’s cafeteria kitchen.

■$4,416 for Colrain Central School’s capital assessment.

■$2,419 for Franklin Tech’s capital assessment.

The town had received about $870 as its share of a Massachusetts opioid litigation settlement two years ago and voted to transfer that sum from a stabilization account into an Opioid Settlement Special Revenue Fund, as requested by the state Department of Revenue.