Preston — The polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday for the town budget referendum in the new town polling place at the Preston Plains Middle School at 1 Route 164, at the Route 2 junction.

In separate questions, voters will be asked whether they approve the proposed 2019-20 school budget of $12,111,999 and the proposed town government budget of $3,921,679.82. Residents made no changes to the budgets during the May 30 town meeting.

The school budget includes funding for a new part-time social worker position, 2.5 para-educator positions and expanded hours for the special education director and school psychologist.

Most of the 12.56 percent increase in the town government budget would cover a plan by Fire Chief Tom Casey to hire enough paid per diem firefighters/EMTs to cover nearly all shifts with at least two responders in response to what Casey called a critical lack of volunteers.

The referendum is the first townwide vote at the new polling place in the middle school gymnasium. Voters will enter the left side entrance, which will be segregated from the rest of the school.