A slew of appropriations are due to come before Salem voters on Saturday, March 14, as town officials look to residents to approve the purchase of a new fire engine, ambulance, dump truck and other service vehicles at the second deliberative session of Salem Town Meeting.

Officials are asking voters to agree to a five-year, $112,438 lease with an option to purchase a replacement engine for the fire department and additional equipment for the vehicle as well as a $60,006, fiveyear lease on a new ambulance also with equipment.

For the Department of Public Works, voters will weigh in on a proposal to enter a five-year $25,836 lease agreement for a new dump truck and a five-year $38,372 lease to replace two of the town’s salters. Public Works officials are asking voters to approve a $1 million appropriation to fund winter weather operations for the remaining year.

While voters were asked to approve the funding for two bridges on the annual ballot on March 10, another bridge replacement project is up for vote. Officials are looking to residents to approve a $468,000 appropriation to fund the reconstruction of the Pelham Road bridge over the Porcupine Brook.

According to officials, the current culvert is structurally inadequate and hydrologically deficient. Minor repairs that were completed following the Mother’s Day floods of 2006 have reached their functional life span.

Selectmen are also calling on voters to approve $193,890 for the purchase of three emergency generators following the December ice storm. One generator will keep power restored to the Wheeler Dam on Canobie Lake in the event of a loss of electricity and the other will allow the town to open an emergency shelter at the Ingram Senior Center.