Following a year in which an $18 million bond proposal drew hordes of people to the polls, Hooksett’s 2007 town warrant – up for discussion at the Saturday, April 7, deliberative session of Town Meeting – is remarkably tame.

The town council agreed to shoot for a “zero increase” town budget this year, and stripped several town department requests from the ballot over the last few months.

Residents will have the chance to weigh in on requests including $1.5 million to finish the upgrade of the wastewater treatment facility, a new contract for unionized police officers and a $50,000 request that could bring the first town park to the town’s west side.

Also proposed is a $15,010,889 municipal operating budget, which marks about a 2.7 percent increase over the current default budget, said Town Administrator David Jodoin.

The proposal is about $190,000 above the default budget, and Jodoin said the gap largely comes from increased costs for things like fuel and health insurance.

“There are some obligations that we had little or no control over,” said Jodoin.

The budget committee unanimously supported the budget proposal.

Article 3 asks for $1.5 million to complete the renovations and capacity upgrades to Hooksett’s sewer plant. The work was sparked several years ago by a multimillion bond. If voters approve the request, and the $18 million bond approved by voters last year is sold, voters would have the chance to rescind this year’s vote at a future Town Meeting, Jodoin said.

Article 11 asks voters for about $166,000 over the next three years for a new contract for Hooksett’s unionized police officers, who’ve been without a new contract for the last year.

Voters will also see a request to put $50,000 into the parks and recreation facilities fund.

Parks officials have said the money would go to build a park on 6.3 acres of Hackett Hill Road and Corriveau Drive that could include tennis courts, playground equipment, offstreet parking and possibly a basketball hoop.

Parks officials have said the new recreation facilities will help reduce the town’s deficit in recreational facilities, a deficit that’s preventing the department from accessing impact fees, collected when developers pull new building permits.

The fees must be used by the department within six years or they’re returned to the developers.

The deliberative session of Town Meeting is at Cawley Middle School, at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 7. Voting day is Tuesday, May 8.