If Goffstown wants to bring more business into town, a sewer upgrade will be needed.

This sewer project will be one of three articles to appear on the warrant for a special Town Meeting on Wednesday, May 27. All articles on the warrant are eligible for funding through the federal economic stimulus program.

The Mast Road sewer upgrade will be Article 1 on the warrant. It requests a $2.5 changedmillion bond to upgrade the sewer on Mast Road in the Pinardville section of town. The sewer system there is already at capacity.

“We want economic development in town, and we need to have the infrastructure to support it,” said Town Administrator Sue Desruisseaux.

Fifty percent of the funding for the project would come from the stimulus program. The other $1.25 million would be paid for through a 10 percent increase in sewer user fees. A $400 bill would then be increased to $440.

“We either pay now or later,” said Desruisseaux. “That’s why we want to take advantage of the 50 percent funding.”

The town is looking at a 20-year bond for this project, but nothing has yet been set in stone.

Article 2 on the warrant requests a $700,000 bond for drainage on South Mast Street between Pineridge Avenue and Wallace Road. “This is the area that constantly gets flooded whenever there’s heavy rains,” said Desruisseaux.

“This will filter the water before it gets down to (Glen Lake), and it would really treat the runoff.”

Again, 50 percent of the funding for the project would come from the stimulus program.

The other $350,000 would be deducted from the annual road plan, so there would be no increase in taxes. The town is also looking at a five-year bond for this project, but that, too, could change.

Article 3 requests authorization to accept money for the COPS Hiring Recovery Program, a the town has applied for funding for three new police officers to keep up with staffing standards for a community of Goffstown’s size.

This four-year program would fund 100 percent of wages and benefits for the new patrol officers for three years. Goffstown would pay only the costs related to outfitting a new police officer, which is $6,300 in the first year. The town would also be obligated to pay for all wages and benefits in the fourth year.

Desruisseaux said under this plan, no officers would be able to be cut from the department for the next four years, otherwise the town would have to repay the government money received.

The special Town Meeting takes place Wednesday, May 27, at 7 p.m., in the gymnasium at Goffstown High School.