ERVING — Residents will be asked to vote on nine articles during this week’s Special Town Meeting, including funding requests for the Farley Bridge repair project and replacement of the Church Street Bridge.

The meeting will be held Wednesday, June 25, at 7 p.m. at Erving Elementary School, 28 Northfield Road.

Town Administrator Bryan Smith explained the Farley Bridge repair is a dual effort between Erving and Wendell, with Wendell taking the lead on the project to fix the wooden and steel bridge.

Wendell received a state Community One Stop for Growth grant in the amount of $156,250, and bids for the project came in $200,000 over budget. To help keep the project on track for construction next spring, this article asks voters to take $125,000 from Erving’s Capital Stabilization Fund.

“We’ll take the grant funds that had been awarded, plus each town’s community contribution to be able to allow the project to be rebid and awarded,” Smith explained.

The Church Street Bridge is on a similar timeline for construction in spring 2026, and a 2022 Annual Town Meeting vote approved borrowing authority for up to $1.6 million for the bridge’s replacement. After this was approved by voters, the state Department of Transportation picked up this project as part of a Regional Transportation Plan, leaving Erving responsible for the engineering, permitting, bidding and right-of-way costs, rather than the entire project that includes construction.

To accommodate for this change, the town is seeking to transfer funds from a completed Arch Street sewer main project that had a $108,939 unspent balance, along with $216,060 from the Capital Stabilization Fund, making for a total of $325,000. Any unspent funds will be returned to the Capital Stabilization Fund upon the project’s completion.

The other capital requests, Articles 3 and 4, seek authorization to move $23,500 from the Water Enterprise Fund Retained Earnings for a Water System Asset Management Plan project that will be coupled with $70,476 that was awarded by the state Department of Environmental Protection; and seek to amend the use from an article in January 2019 for an upgraded water line for the upcoming senior housing development off Care Drive. Article 4 asks voters to amend the use of $226,500 that was previously authorized for this water line, to also allow for sewer improvements with the $149,297 that remains.

“If that approval goes through,” Smith said, “that $149,000 is sufficient to allow engineers to begin designing and permitting the water and sewer extension that’s necessary to support the senior housing complex that we’re working on.”

Outside of the financial articles, residents will be asked to weigh in on a bylaw amendment changing the number of seats on the Historical Commission. Smith explained the Historical Commission has seven seats, but the commission has reported having retention issues, as well as a desire for some members to be part of a new Pearl B. Care Museum Committee.

This discussion has been ongoing between the Selectboard and Historical Commission since the winter. To accommodate a new committee and the difficulty of getting members to join the Historical Commission, voters will be asked to reduce Historical Commission membership to five, with three-year terms.

The final articles on the warrant entail accepting Massachusetts General Law, with Article 8 allowing for adjusted tax exemption amounts for veterans based on cost-of-living adjustments made by the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. Article 9 asks voters to adopt a law pertaining to a parking spot and parking enforcement of a veterans-only space at Erving Town Hall. The new spot would allow veterans with the proper tags to park in the space, and would let law enforcement issue fines or tow vehicles if a non-veteran is parked there.

Other articles include transfers into the newly created Wastewater System Stabilization Fund and the Water System Capital Stabilization Fund. To view the full warrant, visit erving-ma.gov/administration-select-board/pages/town-meeting-warrants.

Erin-Leigh Hoffman can be reached at ehoffman@recorder.com or 413-930-4231.