Another $1.8 million for the police station, a new fire engine, creation of a Department of Public Works, and a revisit to last year’s controversial farm ‘agri-entertainment’ tussle are among the highlights of next Tuesday’s annual Town Meeting.

Town Moderator Steven Fors again cautions participants to arrive on time — the meeting will start on time at 7 p.m. in the high school and won’t wait for stragglers.

The 36-warrant meeting wastes no time getting down to business with some big issues in the early going. (This list is from a ‘final’ posting Sunday — the warrant list and numbers have changed frequently and the actual order may ultimately differ slightly.) Also, selectmen continue to tweak the budget in an effort to close a gap of around $100,000 as of last week.

• Article 6: $1.8 million more for new police station

Voters last May approved $8 million to build a new police station alongside the Hix Bridge Road fire station. But the only two bidders for the 18,860-square-foot station both came in with prices substantially higher than the $8 million available.

Station building committee members including Police Chief Keith Pelletier then tried to reduce the building size to 15,729 square feet. Even that did not produce bids within $8 million.

Committee members then returned to the original size to see of voters will approve additional spending. Selectmen agreed with that plan.

Of the $1.8 million more needed, $500,000 would come from available town resources — perhaps free cash or overlay surplus or both. The remaining $1.3 would be taken from a short-term debt account.

• Article 5 asks voters to approve big ticket capital expenditures for town and schools including:

— $450,000 for new fire engine (borrowed over ten years)

— $138,000 for three police cruisers

— $157,500 for a dump truck replacement

— $37,000 for a Fire Department SUV

— $25,000 for the town’s share of a Senior Center van

— $240,000 for a new ambulance (three-year lease)

— $160,000 for a roll-off truck for the transfer station

— $57,133 for high school intercom/master clock

— $51,594 for elementary school gym floor replacement

— $65,469 to replace elementary school kitchen equipment

— $15,000 to replace the elementary school main entrance door

— $45,000 to replace Macomber School fire doors

• Article 15 asks voters to approve seeking special legislation enabling Westport to create a Department of Public Works that would be supervised by the Board of Selectmen.

This new department would assume the duties of the present Highway Department, transfer station, Cemetery Commission (it would be abolished) and tree warden. It would be responsible for work including facilities maintenance, wastewater, storm water treatment and disposal, refuse removal and recycling.

“The Department shall be supervised by a director who shall be appointed and serve at the pleasure of the Board (of Selectmen); provided, however, that said appointment shall be subject to the By-Laws that provide for the appointment of officers of the Town by the Town Administrator.”

• Article 16 seeks approval for projects recommended by the Community Preservation Committee from the preservation fund it oversees. These include:

— $600,000 for Westport Youth Athletic Association playing fields - the ‘Fields on the Farm’ project.

— $350,000 for St. Vincent de Paul property (off Adamsville Road) conservation restriction

— $140,000 for conservation restriction on a Horseneck Road property

— $100,000 for Town Hall Annex roof

— $23,100 for phase II of the Acoaxet Chapel accessibility project

— $23,100 for Bell Schoolhouse sill repair and foundation work

— $11,150 for Bell Schoolhouse tower repairs

— $2,380 for historic cemetery markers

— $1,500 for Paul Cuffee Heritage Trail signs

— $292,000 for Affordable Housing Trust

• Articles 17 through 20 ask to transfer town land to the Westport Affordable Housing Trust to provide affordable housing. The properties are on Tickle Road (one-half acre), Sanford Road (1.15 acres), School Street (3.5 acres), and Briggs Road (2.5 acres).

• Article 21 aims to establish a new town by-law governing “Illicit Discharge” into stormwater, waterways, wetlands and water supplies. It intends to keep pollutants out of the town’s stormwater system, to prevent new illegal connections to that system and remove old ones, thus complying with state and federal law. Violations could be punished with fines of up to $300 per day.

• Articles 23 and 24, from the planning board, revisits year’s debate over agri-entertainment on farms. This year brings a proposed rewrite.

At last year’s annual Town Meeting a zoning by-law was approved permitting new agricultural uses including agri-entertainment, agri-tourism and commercial activities. The Planning Board had concerns about the wording of this by-law and proponents of the by-law stated that those changes could be addressed at a future Town Meeting.

Over the past year the Planning Board has been working to “tweak the zoning by-laws to make the agricultural uses more consistent with state definitions and zoning exemptions.” Board Chairman James Whitin said that these amendments do not change the intent and purpose of the original by-law and are designed to supplement existing agricultural uses. These changes are supported by the Westport Agricultural Commission.

• Article 26 seeks to add an article to the town’s zoning by-laws entitled “Temporary Moratorium of Recreational Marijuana Facilities and Related Uses.’ It states, in part, “The regulation of recreational marijuana raises novel and complex legal, planning, and public safety issues and the Town needs time to study and consider the regulation of Recreational Marijuana Establishments and address such novel and complex issues.”

• Article 27 seeks to move oversight of the animal control job from the Police Department to the Board of Selectmen. Also related to the past year’s animal issues, a separate article addresses a new position of director of public health.

• Article 31 proposes spending $150,000 for a new Freightliner forestry elevator bucket truck with chip box to enable the Highway Department to “safely remove dead and/or dangerous trees throughout town.”

• Article 33 aims to undo a 2013 Town Meeting vote and make the now-appointed job of highway surveyor an elected position with term not to exceed three years. If passed, the current surveyor would stay in office until the 2018 general election when a new surveyor would take office.

• Article 34 states that the town administrator need not be a resident of the town of Massachusetts when appointed but must become a resident of town within 12 months afterward and remain one for the duration of appointment. Several recent administrators have had long commutes (the present administrator lives on Cape Cod).

• Article 35 establishes a process for recall elections for any member of an elected board. Any ten registered voters would be able to initiate a recall petition against any one individual … that petition would then require at least 500 certified signatures for the matter to go to a town-wide recall election. Anyone displaced by this provision could declare as a candidate to “succeed himself/herself.”