With newfound financial stability as a backdrop, Oak Bluffs voters will be asked to shoulder some hefty spending items at their annual town meeting this year. And the town operating budget needs an override.

The heath hen is currently being proposed as a possibility for de-extinction by an organization that aims to coordinate projects that use genetics to rescue endangered and extinct species.

The topic of what to do about the Mill Pond, if anything, has been before voters for several years and will be again at the annual town meeting Tuesday, April 8.

When voters gather within the newly painted walls of the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown next Tuesday, they will take on a town meeting warrant with 66 articles and a $30.7 million town budget.

Overtime fines in Tisbury are currently set at $15 per offense. By comparison, fines are $20 in Oak Bluffs, $25 in Edgartown and Aquinnah, and $30 in Chilmark.

Increase in high school enrollment from Oak Bluffs has prompted town officials to consider new ways of calculating the town tax assessment ratio. This year, Oak Bluffs had 22 additional students enroll in the high school.