SEEKONK — Five months after town officials announced drastic personnel cuts and the closing of an elementary school, voters at Monday’s Town Meeting will decide whether to reinstate a handful of teaching jobs, hire three police officers and five firefighters, lease a fire truck and new police cruisers, and give former Selectman — and now veterans agent — Donald Kinniburgh a $16,264 increase in pay.

The Finance Committee has endorsed nearly all of the proposals except for Kinniburgh’s, who, along with his wife, helped wage the successful campaign to defeat the Proposition 2 1/2 override, making the layoffs and school closing necessary.

Also on Monday night’s agenda are several proposed changes to the charter, including one that would liberalize the residency requirement for the town administrator, school superintendent, police and fire chiefs, and the superintendent of public works.

The meeting will be at 7 p.m. at the high school.

A full text of all the proposals can be found by clicking on the “Town Warrants” link on the Seekonk Web site, www.seekonk.info.

On the municipal side, the warrant articles call for spending:

• $124,775 to add and equip five firefighters, create a daytime administrative position in the Fire Department and promote one person to lieutenant;

• $90,306 to restore funding for three police officers and their equipment;

• $58,000 to replace the roof at Town Hall;

• $59,000 to lease five police cruisers and one care for a police administrator;

• $60,000 to lease a new fire truck;

• $60,000 to buy five municipal vehicles, including a compact pickup truck;

• $23,688 to rehire a truck driver / laborer in the Public Works Department;

• $22,267 to create the position of assistant superintendent of Public Works;

• $23,414 to expand the food inspector’s job from 16 hours per week to 32.5 hours;

• $17,286 to provide more part-time police dispatchers;

• $11,157 to restructure the police department; and

• $6,217 to make the Town Planner a full time position.

On the schools side, warrant articles are seeking:

• Over $21,000 to make improvements to the cafeterias at Aitken Elementary School and Hurley Middle School;

• $600,000 to replace the roofs at both schools;

• $96,600 to replace tiles at Hurley;

• $135,000 to buy or lease two mini-school busses and a pickup truck with snowplow and sander;

• $67,920 to add two mathematics/language arts resource teachers at the elementary level;

• $50,030 to restore a consumer science teacher at the high school and two guidance counselors — one at the middle school and one at the high school — to full time status. All three are currently part-time staffers;

• $53,900 to bring back the middle school librarian and video/TV job at the high school;

• $64,000 for a system-wide director of instruction and professional development; and

• $40,000 for a part-time out-of-district special education coordinator.

One of the most notable changes being proposed for the Town Charter is the change in the residency requirement.

If passed, the town administrator, police chief, fire chief, superintendent of public works and school superintendent would no longer have to live in town, but could reside within 15 miles of the town’s borders.

Other changes would redefine the powers of the Board of Selectmen.

The charter currently bans the board from being involved in the day-to-day administration of the town.

Under the new language, the selectmen could gather information by interacting directly with town officials and employees, play a more direct role in labor negotiations, and directly hire and fire more department heads including the police and fire chiefs, superintendent of public works, the finance director, the building inspector, the zoning officer, the veterans agent and the town treasurer.

“We want to make it so [the town administrator and the board] have to work together and communicate,” said Beverly Hart, who helped draft the proposed changes. Board members “should have the right to get information and make comments. Some past administrators have said, ‘That’s my job.’ Even in negotiations, the selectmen have been told it’s not within their parameters.”

Another change would alter the order that candidates appear on the ballot for the spring municipal elections.

Currently, incumbents are listed first.

Under the proposal, the order of the candidates’ names would be determined by a lottery conducted by the town clerk’s office.

Kinniburgh, the town’s veterans agent, is asking voters to increase his salary because it was cut back by voters at last May’s town meeting.

The Board of Selectmen voted twice to pay Kinniburgh $45,000 a year, the amount a department head receives.

But when they found that the salary would be far more than what veterans agents in comparable towns were receiving, they scaled back the recommendation in the new budget to $35,000.

Voters approved it at the Town Meeting.

A combative Kinniburgh insists that the Town Meeting vote wasn’t legal, the salary data from other towns was outdated, and that the signed checks he received from the town based on the higher salary constituted a binding contract.

Kinniburgh has asked the Finance Committee to not make a recommendation on the proposed $16,264 pay increase, saying the issues surrounding the controversy were too complicated for them to fully grasp on short notice.

Instead, he said, the question should be left up to voters at Monday night’s meeting.

The Finance Committee decided to remain silent on the issue.

But Selectman John Turner said earlier this week that he doesn’t believe the salary being requested by Kinniburgh “is in line with veterans agents in the surround areas at all.”

About 1,300 of the town’s 13,000 residents are believed to be veterans.