The annual Town Election begins on Tuesday, April 5. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Current Select Board Chair Shawn McDonald is running uncontested to maintain his seat. Candidate John Haran, a current Finance Committee member, is running for a Select Board seat. Candidate Joel Avila, with nine years on the Planning Board and four of which as the chair, is running for a Select Board seat.

In the race for the Dartmouth School Committee, there are two seats up for re-election and three candidates. Incumbents Chris Oliver and John Nunes are campaigning to hold their seats while newcomer Kyle Ross hopes to join the board.

Voters will see the new police station on the ballot. The $8.4 million project will gut the station of contaminated material, overhaul the building’s floor plan and add a garage with a training facility. The project would add $36 annually to a home valued at $280,000 and would be paid off in approximately 20 years.

Officials will ask voters to pay for the new station through a “debt exclusion” from the tax-limiting Proposition 2½, allowing taxes to increase above the state-mandated limit until the town has repaid money borrowed to pay for the station.

The question, as it will appear on the ballot, is as follows: “Shall the Town of Dartmouth be allowed to exempt from the provisions of proposition two and one-half, so-called, the amounts required to pay for the bond issued in order to rehabilitate and renovate the Dartmouth Police Station located at 249 Russells Mills Road, including all costs incidental and related thereto?”

Marking “yes” approves the construction project. Marking “no” rejects the proposal.

Polling locations by precinct are as follows:

• Precinct 1: Dartmouth Bible Church, 52 Morton Avenue

• Precinct 2: Smith Mills Church Hall, 11 Anderson Way

• Precinct 3: Dartmouth Bible Church, 52 Morton Avenue

• Precinct 4: The Cedars, 628 Old Westport Road

• Precinct 5: Town Hall, 400 Slocum Road

• Precinct 6: Senior Citizen Center, 628 Dartmouth Street

• Precinct 7: DYAA - Crapo Field, 225 Russells Mills Road

• Precinct 8: Southworth Library, 732 Dartmouth Street

• Precinct 9: Fire #2 Engine House, 1100 Russells Mills Road