DEERFIELD — Voters at Monday’s Special Town Meeting will be asked to consider approving borrowing up to $5 million, if necessary, for road repairs, as well as streamline and clean up several Planning Board bylaws.

The meeting will be held at Frontier Regional School, 113 North Main Street, in the auditorium at 7 p.m.

Topping the 11-article warrant is Article 10, which requests residents give the town the ability to borrow up to $5 million to pay for road repairs in the wake of July rainstorms that flooded and washed out roads throughout town, as well give the town the ability to quickly respond to River Road if it collapses before the spring. River Road’s embankment has been slowly sinking during subsequent rainstorms and could potentially fail during any storm, according to the Selectboard.

While voters are asked to approve up to $5 million in borrowing — a number both the Selectboard and Finance Committee have agreed upon following lengthy discussions in recent weeks — Selectboard Chair Carolyn Shores Ness said the town may not have to borrow the full amount because the state could potentially provide money to communities around Massachusetts that have been hit hard by storms over the last several months.

“I would like us to have the capability, if River Road does fail, to have the ability to go out and fix it. It’s a major artery,” Shores Ness said at a joint Selectboard-Finance Committee meeting earlier this month, adding that any state money would likely come in late November. “To have that shut down is serious. We have to be able to get on it and we don’t know when it’s going to fail.”

If approved Monday evening, residents will be asked to go to the ballot box in a special election, which will likely be called in December, to decide on a Proposition 2½ vote.

Finance Committee Chair Julie Chalfant said the average single-family tax bill in Deerfield, based on the average home value of $359,661 and an estimated interest rate of 6% over a 20-year period, would increase by $178 per year, or a 3.2% increase.

In terms of zoning changes, which are encompassed by Articles 7, 8 and 9, residents will be asked to update the town’s floodplain bylaws to meet new federal standards, requiring special permit approval for hotels and commercial recreation facilities in the Tourism Overlay District, and updating conservation subdivision designs to encourage open space protection.

While the floodplain bylaw changes are straightforward, the Planning Board has been working with the Franklin Regional Council of Governments to tweak other zoning bylaws in town. One of the biggest changes is requiring hotels and commercial recreation facilities in the Tourism Overlay District, which covers most of South Deerfield, to get special permit approval, rather than allowing them by-right.

Articles 2 and 3 relate to capital improvements, both of which will come out of free cash. Article 2 asks voters to approve a match for the town’s Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) program grant of $92,176 to match the state’s amount for projects implementing green infrastructure at Deerfield Elementary School, the Leary Lot and in Old Deerfield.

The second capital article requests a $250,000 appropriation to replace the Police Department’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system, which is outdated. The project was initially estimated to cost $110,000, but costs have escalated in recent years.

Article 6 seeks residents’ approval to authorize the Selectboard to purchase the parcel of land located at 85 North Main St. for $420,000 in Community Preservation Act (CPA) money. Approval would allow the Selectboard to acquire the property from owner Laurie Cuevas and then incorporate it into the town’s municipal campus plan once feasibility studies are done.

“It’s a great deal because the property owner is willing to accept $40,000 less than the appraised value,” ad hoc Senior Housing Committee Chair Lili Dwight said at an Oct. 18 Selectboard meeting. “It won’t increase real estate taxes because it comes from previously approved CPA funds.”

Other articles on the warrant include appropriating $2,240 for an unanticipated out-of-district transportation bill from the prior year, raising the assistant town clerk’s pay in the face of additional work duties, tweaking dog licensing fees, and accepting Snowberry Circle and Gray Lock Lane as public ways.

The Special Town Meeting warrant and associated documents can be viewed at bit.ly/46DMJTY.

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