ROWE — Annual Town Meeting voters will consider creating a two-town fire district with Charlemont, expanding the town cemetery and enlarging Pelham Lake Park when they meet Monday at 7 p.m. in the Rowe Elementary School, following a Special Town Meeting at 6:30 p.m.

Rowe’s tax rate for residential property for fiscal year 2024 was $5.01 per $1,000 valuation; however, the rate is projected to go up to $5.29 in FY25, while the town completes the second year of a $1.85 million road resurfacing project.

“We can expect the tax rate, which was reduced last year, to increase back in the area of the rate set in 2022,” the Finance Committee wrote in documents provided to voters. “This jump is primarily the cost of the roads and increases seen by the national inflation scene.

“The good news is, moving forward, the tax rate should steady to a 2% to 4% increase that Rowe residents expect.”

About 90% of Rowe’s tax dollars come from the Bear Swamp Hydroelectric Power Station and the closed Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Station.

Budget requests from tax dollars include:

■General government — $645,571.

■Public works and cemeteries — $636,269.

■Public safety — $224,010.

■Public health — $164,003.

■Public schools — the budget for the Rowe Elementary School preK-6 operating budget is $1.2 million and costs for grades 7-12 is $612,629.

■Rowe Town Library — $79,965.

■Pelham Lake Park — $163,704.

Voters are also being asked to spend the following amount to pay down loans:

■$100,000 for broadband debt.

■$370,000 for the town road paving project.

■$59,782 for indebtedness interest.

Residents will decide whether the town clerk should remain an elected position or whether to change it to a Selectboard-appointed position for a three-year term.

There will also be a non-binding vote to see if the town wants to start a fire district with Charlemont, its neighboring town. Under state law, such a fire district would elect a three-member prudential committee, with a district clerk to certify to assessors the amount of taxes to be raised for the district. The main advantage is to bring smaller communities together under one fire service provider, while reducing redundancy in services, equipment, station-staffing and apparatus. This measure is unanimously recommended by the Selectboard.

If the town does not approve creating a fire district, another article asks voters to officially agree to having a shared fire chief with Charlemont. Both towns already share Fire Chief Dennis Annear, but having a formal position with combined work hours would make the job more desirable.

The town will vote to expand the cemetery by acquiring land on North Cemetery Road, using $20,000 of the town’s free cash reserves.

Voters will also be asked to use $186,840 in free cash for projects at the library, Fire Station, Pelham Lake Park and Rowe Elementary School. These expenses include a $50,000 study to make the library Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-compliant and security enhancements at the school.

Residents will vote on having a 2-acre parcel of town-owned land near Pelham Lake Park officially become part of the park. The town acquired the land in 1997, but it was never designated as part of the park.

To view the full warrant and related documents, visit rowe-ma.gov/files/Fiscal_Year_2025_Voter_Booklet.pdf.