Dozens of small spending requests and a series of regional projects will face Oak Bluffs voters next Tuesday when they convene for their annual town meeting.

Special and annual meetings begin at 7 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs School. Moderator Jack Law is out of town, so another moderator will be nominated from the town meeting floor. A quorum is 50 voters.

The annual town election is Thursday, with a race for selectmen and a question about removing fluoride from the water supply on the ballot.

There are 18 articles on the special town meeting warrant, and another 19 on the annual warrant, including a $26.5 million town operating budget, three per cent higher than last year.

For the second year, the town is facing large increases in educational spending. The town’s share of assessments for the regional high school is up nearly 10 per cent over this year’s budget and the Oak Bluffs school budget is up five per cent.

In order to make room for those increases, modest spending is proposed for the rest of the budget.

Most of the articles on the special warrant, which voters will take up first, ask to spend free cash on infrastructure.

Voters will be asked to spend $41,000 on harbor maintenance projects, $92,000 on a new dump truck for the highway department and $23,000 on an update to the town’s website. In other repairs, voters will be asked to spend a total of $100,000 to replace stairways and railings at the town beaches, and another $30,000 on roof repairs at the sailing camp.

In another series of spending articles, voters will be asked to buy equipment for the ambulance department, including a new ambulance for $260,000, a set of fire hoses, nozzles and tubes and a battery-operated jaws of life, a tool used to remove people from dangerous situations.

Money for these items will come out of the ambulance reserve fund, which has also been targeted for the replacement of two police department vehicles for a total of $74,000.

The police department is also asking for $14,295 to buy radar speed trailers, $16,000 for Segways and $20,000 to purchase body cameras. Those funds would also come from the ambulance reserve fund, which accumulates fees from off-Island medical transportation.

Oak Bluffs voters will also be asked to participate in spending on a number of regional initiatives. The Adult Community Education program is petitioning voters to pay their administrative costs for the second consecutive year. The Oak Bluffs portion of the regional formula is $10,650. The town finance committee voted against the assessment.

Oak Bluffs is also being asked to participate in funding the Islandwide Youth Collaborative, a youth services group formed by the schools, Community Services, the YMCA, the Youth Task Force and the hospital, at a cost of $3,712.

Other regional requests include two concerning the Island’s elderly population. In the first, Dukes County is asking all the towns to contribute to the purchase of a building that would host services for the elderly. The town finance and advisory committee has also come out against this request.

In a separate article, voters will be asked to spend $1,048 on a website that allows senior centers to track engagement.

Regional questions also appear among the town’s 12 Community Preservation Act requests, which this year total $910,972. These include a petition for $50,000 for restoration of the roof and chimneys at the old marine hospital, which is expected to become the new site of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.

Oak Bluffs is also being asked to contribute $63,000 to a project to replace the regional high school running track.

If voters agree, CPA funds will also go toward winterizing a single family house on Richmond avenue and coastal stabilization and preservation projects at East Chop, along Sea View avenue and at Pay Beach.

There will also be two opportunities for voters to support restoration efforts at Farm Pond, a 42-acre pond known by the sea serpent floating at its center. The town is pursuing a federal grant to widen an existing culvert under the pond to alleviate the buildup of nitrogen and bacteria. The grant requires a 35 per cent local match, which the town has estimated at $500,000. A CPA article asks to spend $125,000 this year and to reserve $125,000 for next year to pay half of that sum. If voters agree, the town will borrow the remaining half through a separate article.

In another watershed issue coming before the town, voters will vote on the creation of a new watershed planning district for Lagoon Pond, where an excess of nitrogen is polluting the natural habitat.

In one of the final articles on the annual warrant, voters will be asked to approve a bylaw authored by the planning board that regulates the installation of solar panels. The bylaw allows certain solar projects by right, and places limitations on the scale of installations mounted on buildings and at the ground level. The bylaw also establishes guidelines for special permitting and reviewing large-scale and community-based projects.

Finally, a petition article asks voters for their support in mandating that the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital create and pay for a new public road separating the Windemere neighborhood from the hospital.

During a significant renovation project in 2010, the hospital assumed the use of a roadway that connects Beach Road with the Windemere neighborhood. Neighbors have complained that the expansion, part of which sits directly on a former town road, landlocked their property so that the only means of access and egress is through hospital grounds.

Later this month, the town will hold another special town meeting to vote on another regional expenditure — a new superintendent’s building at the regional high school. Towns are being asked to approve a bond of $3.9 million. Each town would be assessed a portion of the bond based on their regional high school assessment.