SOUTHAMPTON — Voters approved all nine articles on the warrant of a special Town Meeting on Saturday, approving spending of up to $1 million for a new Fire Department ambulance and Highway Department dump truck.

The special Town Meeting was held to tie off the current fiscal year 2026, while preparing for future budgets. Articles 5 and 6 took up the bulk of conversation, with voters ultimately approving future appropriating or borrowing of up to $600,000 for a new ambulance and up to $400,000 for a new dump truck.

Town Administrator Scott Szczebak said the ambulance will replace one of two, the older 2008 model, and could take at least one and a half years to be ordered, meaning funding would not be used immediately. Similarly, the dump truck would replace an older model to help maintain town-used vehicles.

At Southampton’s annual Town Meeting last month, voters approved putting $300,000 into a capital spending fund that will be used to kickstart the spending for the vehicles, along with other sources, Szczebak said.

“The costs for this are now built into our budget, with the approval of the [$1.9 million] override last month,” Szczebak said at the special Town Meeting Saturday.

Fire Chief Richard Fasoli said last year, the town has 978 ambulance calls, close to 100 of which provided mutual aid to Westfield or Easthampton. In fiscal year 2025, the department collected approximately $415,000 in ambulance fees against an estimated budget of $675,000, relying on mutual aid to help fund operations.

Fasoli noted that since the $1.9 million override passed, opposed to the larger $2.5 million option, the department had to cut one of its full-time employees.

Article 1 asked voters to approve transferring $200,000 from operational stabilization funds toward the Hampshire Regional School District to pay past for unexpected costs recently discovered.

Szczebak explained that the district found outstanding bills that need to be paid by its five member towns as dues to the central office. The payment is part of a three-year plan created last year, after the district’s new administration uncovered the costs that were not previously paid.

“About three or four years ago Hampshire Regional did not bill the towns within the regional school district for their ongoing central office costs,” Szczebak said at a recent Select Board meeting.

Southampton will pay a total of approximately $650,000 to the district through the plan that started with $200,000 last year. With the article OK’d, the town will make another $200,000 payment this year, with a remaining balance of $250,000 being paid next year, Szczebak said.

Article 3 passed, establishing an Accessibility Commission with guidelines that would support ongoing efforts to make the town compliant with the American Disabilities Act of 1991 throughout the town, with an eye towards potential improvements.

“We do believe that this does not only have benefits for people with disabilities but anything we can do to improve accessibility, it benefits all of us,” Select Board Chair Christine Fowles said at a recent Select Board meeting.

Article 8 passed appropriating $424,800 from Community Preservation Act funds to purchase 75 acres of the Tripple Brook property — about half of the total acreage — located near 37 Middle Road. The remaining articles were bylaw amendments or financial transfers for less than $42,000.