WHATELY — Several financial transfers, grant matches and amendments to clean up the zoning bylaws will come before voters in a housekeeping special Town Meeting set for Tuesday.

Residents will consider 10 articles during the meeting, which will start at 7 p.m. at the Whately Town Offices, 4 Sandy Lane. All articles are recommended by the Select Board.

Topping the warrant are a trio of zoning amendments — Articles 8, 9 and 10 — focused on codifying and clarifying Whately’s bylaws. The town has been working with General Code LLC to digitize and clean up the bylaws, according to Town Administrator Peter Kane.

“We’re now merging all of the general bylaws and zoning bylaws into a code for the community,” Kane said. “We’re not doing any structural changes and we’re not changing anything about the rules, regulations, the restrictions. This is simply a way to go about modernizing the bylaws and making them easier to access.”

In all, the proposed amendments will clean up terminology throughout Whately’s bylaws by creating consistent phrasing — for example, rather than Board of Selectmen or Selectmen, all references will be Selectboard — and renumbering bylaws.

Article 1 will request a transfer of $450 to pay assessing company CAI Technologies for bills from a prior year.

Articles 2 and 3 relate to the national opioid settlement. Residents will be asked in Article 2 to rescind the Opioid Settlement Special Purpose Stabilization Fund, which was approved at a November 2022 special Town Meeting, and instead create a Special Opioid Revenue Fund, which, at the advice of the state, would allow the money to be expended without further appropriations. Article 3 would then transfer $37,366 from the existing opioid fund to the one created in the prior article. The money could then be put toward programs that support prevention of substance use disorder, harm reduction, treatment and recovery.

Articles 4 and 7 involve grant matches, with Article 4 requesting a free cash transfer of $8,426 to act as a 10% match for a state grant funding an update to Whately’s comprehensive plan. The updated plan would address housing, community facilities and services, transportation, energy, sustainability and climate resiliency, economic development and land use/zoning. Work on it, if the match is approved, would begin in late 2024 or early 2025.

Article 7 requests a $14,000 transfer from the Community Preservation Fund to match a grant received from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The money would support a feasibility study exploring reuse options for the former Center School at 218 Chestnut Plain Road.

Articles 5 and 6 regard free cash transfers, first to pay $6,553 for costs associated with the enforcement of a dangerous dog order, as well as euthanization. The latter article seeks to transfer $13,500 for the purchase of an Agricultural Preservation Restriction (APR) on 40.84 acres of farmland at 269 River Road, which is owned by Jonathan and Justin Galenski.

The full warrant can be viewed at bit.ly/4hvx3YA.

Chris Larabee can be reached at clarabee@recorder.com.