SALEM – Although multimillion- dollar decisions for a new police station and high school renovations have been made, plenty of money matters are up for consideration at Salem’s second deliberative session.

Nearly $5 million in capital expenditures are to be discussed at the final segment of Salem’s Town Meeting on Saturday, March 15, including the hiring of four new firefighters as well as work to repair Shore Drive and the Haverhill Road bridge.

If all 20 articles pass, including two citizen-petitioned articles, taxes would increase on the town side more than 10 percent, according to Town Manager Jonathan Sistare.

“The selectmen, of course, are only recommending the amount that would raise it 8 percent,” Sistare said.

The entire length of Shore Drive would be repaired for the cost of $2.1 million if approved as selectmen advise. Previously, selectmen considered splitting up the work on Shore Drive into two years to stagger costs, but eventually voted to maintain the entire project as a neighborhood road program.

At last year’s Town Meeting, voters approved $225,000 in engineering work to rebuild Shore Drive for the work scheduled on this year’s warrant.

The bridge at Haverhill Road would be repaired for $424,000 following damage from the Mother’s Day flood in 2006.

Selectmen plan to increase winter weather operation costs from $400,000 to $800,000 as a result of the additional snowfall this year, Sistare said.

“That increase will come out of surplus so it shouldn’t directly affect taxes,” Sistare said.

The Budget Committee has recommended against $1.2 million of the possible expenditures in a year where the tax rate could take a high increase.

Projects the budget committee voted down include a $150,000 water booster station on Manor Parkway, and drainage and catch basin inventory and cleaning programs for floodwater studies totaling $300,000.

Petition articles for capital improvements total nearly $600,000 for repaving work on Ball Avenue and bridge repair where Commercial Drive and Pelham Road meet.

Selectmen and the budget committee both voted against the $167,900 paving article and the $430,000 bridge article, but a strong presence of supporters could still allow it to pass.