SOMERSET — Town and school budgets totaling $47.6 million, a proposal to give a Taser gun to each police officer, and a plan to banish Level 2 and 3 sex offenders from schools, beaches, parks and playgrounds will be on the agenda at Monday night’s Town Meeting.

It begins at 7 p.m. at the high school auditorium.

The session will be a combination of a Special Town Meeting and the Annual Town Meeting. There are seven items on the agenda for the Special Town Meeting, all of them housekeeping matters dealing with the current fiscal year, and 42 items on the Annual Town Meeting agenda.

Turnout is expected to be light. None of the warrant articles have generated a lot of discussion in town, although a few may be controversial.

On the municipal side, the town is seeking $21.9 million, $721,147 more than last year’s appropriation. That’s an increase of 3.4 percent.

The School Committee is proposing a $25.7 million budget, which is 3.3 percent higher than its 2007-08 budget. A May 1 hearing on that request produced little comment.

There are also proposals for two new police cruisers ($60,000), six mobile laptop computers for the department ($21,951), five new in-house police computers ($8,265) and 32 Taser guns for the officers ($41,476).

The department has no Tasers now, and there has been some debate over whether each officer needs one, or whether the department could get by with one per cruiser.

“They have proven to significantly reduce officer injury, significantly reduce prisoner injury, reduce litigation and reduce the amount of fatal shootings,” police Chief Joseph Ferreira said yesterday. “The more [Taser units] we have, the better positioned we are as a community.”

There’s also a request for a new $150,000 dump truck with a plow and catch basin cleaner for the Highway Department, and $280,000 is being sought for a new or used ladder truck for the Fire Department.

In addition, voters will be asked to approve a digitized zoning map to replace one whose inaccuracies have led to controversy in town.

The last proposal on the agenda calls for appointing a principal assessor.

One item that may be controversial is Article 39, which calls for stiff restrictions on the ability of Level 2 and 3 sex offenders to enter, or be near, most public buildings and all parks, beaches and playgrounds.

The proposal is supposed to reduce the risk of sexual crime in town, but the ACLU of Massachusetts has warned that such proposals may be unconstitutional and even increase the risk of such crimes.

“It’s unfortunate that it’s needed,” said Ferreira, saying the proposed restrictions on sexual predators is “a great piece of legislation that hopefully will be adopted statewide.”

If the townspeople pass it without amendments, and it is approved by the attorney general, the bylaw would prohibit Level 2 and Level 3 sex offenders from participating at all future town meetings at the high school, and restrict their ability to attend regular meetings of various town bodies, including the Board of Selectmen.

gemery@projo.com