A police station design, and extra money for the schools top a dozen-article Special Town Meeting that will open at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 1, in the high school auditorium.

These warrant items were elevated in meeting highlight status after a late decision to recommend passing over item #11 — the status of Beach Avenue, that much-disputed sandy route out to the Knubble (see separate story).

The meeting, whose agenda started small but just kept growing in recent weeks, had been dominated by debate over Beach Avenue — that “road to nowhere” as Selectman Vice Chairman R. Michael Sullivan called it, whose fate has easily consumed more time and energy than every other road in town combined.

Still, that beach issue wasn’t the only thing awaiting voters. The other warrant items are:

• Article 1: Five fund transfers to town department whose budgets are running short for the current fiscal year.

— $6,085 from Harbor Enterprise earnings account to harbor expenses;

— $4,700 from Free Cash to tax collector;

— $5,120 from Free Cash to treasurer;

— $25,000 from Free Cash to Veterans Department;

— $25,000 from Town Hall expenses to Town Hall Personnel Services.

Recommended by Board of Selectmen.

• Article 2: Transfer $5000 from Transfer Station Personnel account to Board of Health personnel top cover overtime costs.

• Article 3: Voters are asked to approve $316,000 that the School Department says it needs to cover “unanticipated expenses” that the superintendent said include hiring two new assistants to help deal with a larger than expected number of special needs students, as well as a part-time curriculum director, a position recommended by the state Department of Education.

Selectmen approved putting this to voters but said they wanted a more thorough explanation before taking a stand. There is no recommendation from selectmen on this warrant.

The money, schools say, will go to:

— $64,000 for two special education teaching assistants;

— $7,000 for one LPN;

— $180,000 for four interventionists;

— $45,000 for one half-time curriculum director;

— $20,000 for sports uniforms for students in grades 7 and 8 who this year moved to the high school and now have the opportunity to play sports.

• Article 4: Payment of six bills totaling $57,461. The largest of these is to SG Projectoco LLC, $51,067 to do with net metering work in town buildings.

The Selectmen recommend passage.

• Article 5: Transfer of $215,440 from Community Development Block Grant funds to provide grants to low and moderate income homeowners for residential rehabilitation work (overseen by Westport Affordable Housing Trust.

• Article 6: Continue payment of medical co-payment expenses incurred by firefighter Steve Lopes who continues to recover from injuries suffered when he fell from an icy roof while fighting a fire. Because it was self-insured at the time, Westport was liable for all expenses beyond the initial $100,000 covered by its insurer. Selectmen recommend approval.

• Article 7: This question asks voters to approve, either from available funds or borrowing, $580,000 for the design of a new police station next to the Hix Bridge Road fire station. Selectmen recommend approval.

• Article 8: Seeks voter approval to transfer care and control of the abandoned middle school from the School Committee to the Board of Selectmen. Both the schools and selectmen recommend the transfer.

• Article 9: Submitted by the Board of Health, this warrant asks for new wording covering septic systems. They would be banned from within 100 feet of any body of water (variances might be granted in some cases); Board of Health rules prevail over state rules when BOH standards are more stringent; and no sewage, no matter how it is treated, may be discharged into a wetland.

• Article 10: Would authorize the selectmen to enter into agreements including payment in lieu of property taxes for renewable energy projects. Selectmen recommend approval.

• Article 11: Beach Avenue (see above).

• Article 12: Seeks approval to transfer $500,000 from Free Cash to the Stabilization Fund, and $200,000 from Free Cash to the Capital Improvement Stabilization Fund. Selectmen recommend approval.