CONWAY — Voters will weigh in on 29 articles during Saturday’s Annual Town Meeting, including revised solar array bylaws, proposed land acquisitions as part of the South River Flood Resiliency Project and a $6.3 million operating budget.

The meeting will be held on Saturday starting at 1 p.m. in the Conway Grammar School gymnasium.

Residents will vote on revising zoning bylaws pertaining to large-scale solar projects, which would involve approving a new special permit process. The original solar bylaw was drafted in 2011.

Planning Board Chair Beth Girshman explained the revised bylaw would not affect private projects. The special permit process would allow the board to better address individual concerns and have “more oversight on a case-by-case basis.”

“You can put a solar array in a lot of different places and it affects things differently,” Girshman said. “It might affect abutters differently if it’s in one place rather than another. … When you have a special permit process, that allows you to really hear from the abutters and the neighbors.”

Girshman said the revised bylaw is also about being mindful of people’s private land while trying to encourage the use of solar energy.

“We were really trying to walk a line between private property rights of everybody involved,” Girshman said. “We as a board believe that solar energy, alternative energy, is really important and that we do not want to put ourselves on discouraging large-scale solar.”

If approved, the article would also address setback requirements, restrict tree-cutting and require a statement from an acoustic engineer regarding noise levels of the facility, among other things.

There are three articles regarding land acquisitions along the South River that will further the South River Flood Resiliency Project, which seeks to mitigate flooding.

“We would not be using any tax money,” noted Joe Strzegowski, an associate member of the Planning Board.

If approved by voters, purchase of a lot at 69 Main St., as well as two unnumbered lots on Shelburne Falls Road, would be funded by $50,000 from the Community Preservation Act Fund. An additional $15,000 from unbudgeted reserve funds would pay for an environmental assessment of the Main Street property, which is necessary because of the parcel’s history as a vehicle storage garage.

Strzegowski said the soil is probably free of contaminants, but the town is going to do an analysis to be sure.

“We’re not sure anything’s there, but the town is going to do (its) due diligence,” Strzegowski said. “If you own the land, you own the problem.”

Strzegowski indicated the current owner of 69 Main St. has not accepted a purchase offer yet, but he said he is hoping a sale can be finalized if the article is passed.

“Our plan is to show up with some real money,” Strzegowski said, “and try to consummate a sale.”

The Annual Town Meeting warrant also seeks approval for a roughly $6.3 million operating budget for fiscal year 2022, which is a 2.9 percent increase from the current budget. The Conway Grammar School operating budget would see an increase of more than $76,000, or 4.1 percent, while the town’s assessment to the Frontier Regional School District is increasing by $4,000, or 0.3 percent. Costs for tuition and transportation for Conway students attending Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School in Northampton represent another $41,300.

Other proposals up for a vote include:

■Raising $220,000 for the Highway Department to replace a six-wheel truck;

■Permanently moving the Annual Town Meeting date from the second Monday in May to the first Saturday in June;

■Renaming the “Board of Selectmen” to the gender-neutral term “Selectboard”;

■Raising $170,000 to pave part of Shelburne Falls Road;

■Raising $150,000 for the Capital Improvements Stabilization Fund;

■Transferring $14,923 of free cash to the general fund for partial debt service for the Highway Garage;

■And raising $24,841 for Ambulance Department operational expenses.

To view the full warrant, visit bit.ly/2RjWQMl.

Chris Larabee can be reached at clarabee@recorder.com or at 413-930-4081.