The draft Oceans Management Plan is a rush job, based on hastily-assembled data with little or no real analysis that is simply a means to an end: the rapid development of wind power generation in waters off the coast of Massachusetts, said Cape and Islands Rep. Timothy Madden this week.

And Mr. Madden said Vineyard residents are justified in their outrage at the plan, which effectively strips the Island of regulatory control over the development of wind power plants on the ocean that is its backyard, by diluting the powers of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

The warrant for next week’s special town meeting in Oak Bluffs contains only seven articles, but the issues it will decide are critical to the town’s future.

When voters gather on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs School they will decide whether the town should cut $500,000 from the current operating budget and then spend $2.44 million to expand the town sewer system in order to tie in the regional high school and new YMCA building, among others.

Music, arts and enrichment programs in the Island schools are on the block for downsizing as the Vineyard schools superintendent tries to craft a budget for the coming year with little or no increase over last year.

And if the 2011 $3.5 million shared services budget for fiscal year 2011 unveiled last week is approved by the All-Island School Committee, the elementary strings program will be first in line for cuts.