SOMERSET — You can’t say the Board of Selectmen isn’t persistent.

Board members will ask voters at Monday’s Special Town Meeting to take $25,000 — money that was supposed to be spent to help Fall River kill the Weaver’s Cover liquefied-natural-gas proposal — and divert it to the legal battle to block the pipeline designed to transport LNG from Fall River across Somerset.

The $25,000 was appropriated, based on a citizens petition from Lorne Lawless, in March at another special Town Meeting.

He and other supporters had argued that Fall River has been bearing the brunt of legal expenses for the fight against LNG, and that other communities — both in Massachusetts and Rhode Island — had already contributed to help defray the costs.

The selectmen were opposed at the time, saying that they had made non-cash contributions to the battle.

But when voters showed up at the high school in force on March 13 to overwhelmingly support the appropriation, board members sat silently. The appropriation passed unanimously.

Less than a month later, Selectwoman Eleanor Gagnon was suggesting at a board meeting that the town should save money but cutting that appropriation to $10,000, the same amount contributed by Swansea.

But when a member of the audience asked what gave her the right to circumvent a Town Meeting vote, she quickly reversed herself. “I certainly am not going to renege on the commitment," she said.

It now appears that the money was never spent for its intended purpose

And it may never be.

Article 15, to be voted on Monday night at the high school, calls for taking that appropriation, along with $5,000 in the “free cash” account, and using it for the legal battle to defend the town’s decision to not allow the pipeline.

The Advisory and Finance Committee has endorsed the proposal.

Lawless could not be reached yesterday.

“If you examined it, the money’s going to the proper purpose, which is fighting LNG,” said Selectman Chairman Patrick O’Neil. “The money is going for a good cause. We’re all on board with the same issue. We all want LNG to go away.”

In all, there will be 18 articles on the agenda at Monday night’s meeting, which begins at 7 p.m.

They include just over $1.1 million to be spent on sewer projects and $653,000 for water-supply improvements.

Nearly all of the warrant articles that involve money have been endorsed by the town’s Advisory and Finance Committee.

The only other item that has drawn any controversy so far is Article 16, which is a request to adopt a new computer-generated zoning map.

Although the map is a dramatic improvement from the inaccurate and hard-to-read map currently in use, Gagnon has criticized it because it doesn’t reflect how individual parcels are actually used.

The rest of the board, and Town Administrator John McAuliffe have endorsed the new map, saying it is designed to simply show zoning boundaries. They say Gagnon is looking for a different kind of map, one that would much more expensive to develop.

“When you provide services, you try to provide the best services,” said O’Neil. “It’s time we updated that service” with a better map.

One potential source of controversy is expected to be withdrawn.

The Conservation Commission decided to pull Article 18, which calls for a new wetlands protection by-law, off the agenda because it had generated too much controversy.

The remaining proposals are relatively routine.

The first three call for transferring a total of $600,000 from the free-cash account — also known as the undesignated surplus fund — to pay for sewer improvements. The money comes from the town’s sewer infrastructure fee.

Article 5 calls for spending $300,000 from the same fund to reduce the sewer department’s debt.

Article 6 would spend $244,300 to rehabilitate nine sewer pumping stations.

Article 4 calls for getting four sewer easements through purchase or eminent domain.

Article 7 would permit the spending of $90,000 to continue studying how the town would be affected if the two local power plants were to be put up for sale.

Articles 8 and 9 would authorize the spending of $600,000 to continue to take land within 500 feet of the Somerset Reservoir to provide a buffer zone to project the town’s water supply, and allow spending $53,000 to make repairs and updates to the town’s water treatment facility.

Article 10 is a supplemental appropriation of $43,955 for the 98 students at the Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School, made necessary when the state decided to recalculate the town’s contribution to Diman. The price tag for educating students there has gone up dramatically in the last four years, from about $188,000 a year to $1.1 million, Town Administrator John McAuliffe said.

Article 11 calls for spending $3,000 on sign-language interpreters when needed at a town meeting.

Article 12 would set aside $7,500 to help acquire the historic Friends Meeting House.

Article 13 calls for spending $4,900 to replace the boiler at Old Town Hall on County Street.

Article 14 has no cost to the town but would authorize a utility easement for Mayes Avenue.

Article 16 calls for approving the new zoning map, a proposal endorsed by both the finance committee and the Planning Board.

Article 17 is the only proposal opposed by the Advisory and Finance Committee. It calls for laying the groundwork to sell town-owned property to raise revenue. As of now, that proposal carries no price tag.