LEICESTER — The annual town meeting for Leicester traditionally convenes in the Meeting House, but the venue is unavailable this year and so it will be held on Monday, March 2, at 7 p.m. in the town offices. There will be no voting of consequence as residents last year voted to make the in-person annual gathering an information-only meeting; voting will take place on Tuesday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., also in the town office.

In Tuesday voting, Leicester residents will decide a town spending of $830,200, which represents an increase of just less than $5,000, or 1%, from the spending approved for the current fiscal year.

Specifically, the selectboard is asking for approval to spend $359,335 for general town expenses, with the amount to be raised by taxes $346,556, and to spend $470,865 on roads with $350,957 to be raised in taxes. So the amount to be raised in taxes would be $57,113 more than the tax amount OK’d last year.

Two other money items are on the warning: $1,000 for the Charter House Coalition to run its emergency shelter, and $20,000 to add 25 hours of sheriff’s department patrols for traffic enforcement.

In addition to voting on the town budget, residents on Tuesday will cast ballots on a handful of elected positions, the most prominent being two seats on the selectboard for a two-year and a three-year term; those seats are currently held by John Rouse and Diane Randall. Julie Delphia’s positions of town clerk and town treasurer will also be up for election, as well as the moderator, auditor, and delinquent tax collector.

Leicester voters will join their peers in Brandon, Whiting, Goshen, Sudbury and Pittsford in casting ballots on the budget and board members representing the Otter Valley Unified Union schools. The board warned a FY27 spending plan of $28,841,999, which is an increase of $818,286, or 2.92%. The spending is $14,257 per pupil in education spending — up about $5.5% from this year.

Leicester will also be voting on an OVUU school director position for a three-year term, plus three at-large school board seats — two with a three-year term, and one to serve one year of a now-vacant three-year term.