When the Island’s oldest town convenes its annual town meeting next week, a new moderator, town administrator and town clerk will take the stage at the Old Whaling Church alongside other, more familiar faces. And Edgartown voters will take up a hefty warrant, with issues ranging from millions in town waterfront improvements to reconstruction of the Katama Airfield hangar.

“It’s going to be a full meeting,” said moderator Sean Murphy who was elected last year to replace longtime moderator Philip J. Norton Jr., who retired. “We’re hoping to get through it in one night, but that’s up to the voters.”

A 10-article special town meeting will be followed by an 85-article annual town meeting warrant. The meetings begin at 7 p.m.

“Obviously, we’re all interested in the housing bank, the Katama Airfield articles, and the Morse street renovations,” said town administrator James Hagerty, also in his first year. “These are all big ticket items.”

Mr. Hagerty said he has worked tirelessly to get the $38.2 million budget — a 3.7 per cent increase over 2018 — ready for Tuesday.

“I’m feeling confident,” Mr. Hagerty said. “It was a lot of work to get this budget to where it is. If the voters want it, they will vote for it.”

Highlighting the warrant for the special town meeting are two articles requesting home rule petitions to enact and fund an Islandwide housing bank.

Proponents of the housing bank have mounted a vigorous campaign in the lead-up to town meeting, but Edgartown selectmen have staked out their strong opposition to the articles.

“It is our belief that municipally subsidized housing is best addressed at the municipal level,” the three selectmen wrote in a commentary that appears on Page Eight in today’s edition.

The Edgartown financial advisory committee has also taken a position against the housing bank.

At the special town meeting, voters will also be asked to take nearly $200,000 from free cash to cover benefits for recently-retired employees. Mr. Hagerty noted a slew of recent retirements.

“We’ve had 11 employees with over 20 years of service retire, I think,” he said. “So that number is noticeably larger than in past years.”

Large appropriations for seniors are a theme this year. Voters will be asked to spend $150,000 from Community Preservation Act funds to pay Edgartown’s share of an expansion at Aidylberg, an elderly housing complex in Oak Bluffs. If voters approve, another $26,000 will go toward elderly counseling and outreach, $30,000 will go toward Healthy Aging Martha’s Vineyard, and $187,000 will go toward the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living. The requests all come from the county.

“Towns can’t give money directly to nonprofits, so they go through the county,” Mr. Hagerty explained.

Voters are also facing large expenditures for waterfront infrastructure projects, including $900,000 to renovate the dockfront at the foot of Morse street, where the town operates a marina.

Edgartown harbor master Charlie Blair said that since town acquired the Morse street property in the late 1990s, the bulkhead and wooden walkways have needed substantial work.

“We’ve got failure on all three sides of that property, and two of the sides are beautiful cut-granite stones. The way to repair that is really expensive,” Mr. Blair said. “So I’ve been trying to get this for 20 years, and it’s nice to see the town is finally going to address it . . . if we didn’t have this property, we’d have nothing.”

He said an engineering company has examined the dock and rated every aspect of the structure as poor. A corresponding ballot question asks voters to exempt the bond debt on the project from Proposition 2 1/2.

Voters will also be asked to spend $145,000 in community preservation funds to restore a wooden bulkhead at North Wharf, $85,000 to repair and maintain buoys, spiles, floats, and other dock equipment, $15,000 to survey the loading zone between the Edgartown Yacht Club and the Atlantic Restaurant, and $120,000 from free cash to rebuild the Katama boat launch and landing.

Although the launch is owned by the state, Mr. Hagerty said the town has to pay for a portion of the reconstruction costs since it uses the landing to launch the town-owned dredge.

“Usually we have to launch the dredge using a crane,” Mr. Hagerty said. “So the state said, if you want to do it so you can launch the dredge, you have to pay for 25 per cent of it. In the long run it will save money because you don’t have to pay $10,000 to $15,000 a pop for the crane.”

A $950,000 spending request to rebuild the dilapidated Katama Airfield hangar will come before voters again. Last year the project was approved overwhelmingly on the town meeting floor but failed in the ballot box by a single vote. The price tag has gone down because the airfield has raised money from an independent donor, but approval will still be needed at town meeting and in the ballot box, the latter to exempt the spending from the state tax cap.

Farther inland, voters will be asked to approve $550,000 to renovate the Robinson Road tennis courts, plus build four new courts and two new pickleball courts, plus $200,000 for the planning and creation of a park at the Yellow House property. If approved, both projects will begin in October.

Public school requests include:

• $18,000 for a dehumidification study for the Edgartown School;

• $65,000 for increased security measures at the school;

• $286,000 for the town’s share of a feasibility study to renovate or rebuild the regional high school.

A zoning bylaw amendment would establish a special permit process for retail marijuana sales in the upper Main street business district.

Planning board assistant Doug Finn explained that the change will create added regulation.

“Right now, it is allowed within the B2 district the way anything else is that is allowed by special permit in the B2 district,” he said. “This regulation provides greater oversight, and greater control as to the size, scope and visibility and operational details of a potential retail operation.”

New police cruisers and a fire truck, as well as renovations to a water storage and communications building on Mill Hill road in Edgartown are also on the docket.

Mr. Murphy conceded that as moderator he has big shoes to fill this year.

“Literally, and figuratively,” he said. “I’m going to run it the same way Mr. Norton ran it for tall these years. I actually talked to him a few times, and I don’t plan to change anything.”