HAWLEY — Voters will be asked to approve transferring $76,341 to cover budget overages for Highway Department supplies and vocational school tuition during next week’s Special Town Meeting.

The meeting will commence at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 23, at the Hawley Town Office at 8 Pudding Hollow Road. There are three articles on the warrant.

Article 3 asks voters to approve transferring $48,300 to cover higher-than-anticipated expenses in the Highway Department account that funds plowing, road salt and other expenses needed to maintain roads in the winter months.

“It was a whole bunch of things,” Administrative Assistant Tinky Weisblat said regarding the added expenses. “That storm we had in February required a lot of plowing and work, and while we didn’t necessarily have more snow than usual this winter, we had a lot of ice that needed to be dealt with.”

Weisblat added that winter road maintenance will likely require further discussion next budget season.

“They’re trying to figure out if we need to start allocating more for winter roads, but who can predict the weather?” Weisblat said.

Article 1 asks voters to transfer $3,041 from free cash to cover propane and pellets for Highway Garage heating.

Residents will also continue budget discussions that are left over from May’s Annual Town Meeting, and vote on transferring $25,000 from the Vocational Stabilization Fund to cover a higher-than-budgeted assessment from Franklin County Technical School. The town had budgeted $70,000 for Franklin Tech, but then learned there would be six students from Hawley attending next school year, rather than the two that were initially expected.

Residents had passed over the article at Annual Town Meeting to allow the Finance Committee more time to determine the best way to pay for the higher expense. For the Special Town Meeting, the committee is recommending that the Vocational Stabilization Account be used to pay for the assessment.

“We were unprepared for six kids to go instead of two, ” Weisblat said.

The full warrant can be viewed at townofhawley.com/event/special-town-meeting-2.

Reach Madison Schofield at 413-930-4579 or mschofield@recorder.com.