A special town meeting next month in Chilmark will include spending requests related to projects in around Menemsha harbor.

The selectmen on Tuesday approved a 10-article warrant, which includes a request for $10,000 to explore the renovation or expansion of the Menemsha comfort station, which is often overburdened in the summer, and $16,000 to replace electrical stations and power packs (jump-starters) on the docks, along with repairs to town-owned lighting. The meeting will be held on Monday, Nov. 9.

One article asks for $6,000 from the waterways improvement account to pay for a small boat that would help the harbor department manage a surge in boat traffic that selectmen expect to result from an Army Corps of Engineers dredging project this fall.

A total of $10,000 would fund repairs and improvements on Tea Lane, including some related to watershed protection around Tiasquam River.

Following several discussions this year, the selectmen approved an article asking for $20,000 to fund an increase in hours for the position of assistant shellfish constable. The position would come with benefits and a $35,000 salary, with fewer hours in the winter. Selectmen have shown strong support for the change, especially in light of a successful scallop harvest last season.

“We’ve been sold on it for awhile,” selectman Bill Rossi said Tuesday.

Selectman Warren Doty noted the $530,000 in scallop landings last season and expressed hope for a similar bounty with oysters in the future.

“It’s not just pie-in-the-sky that our commercial shellfish landings in Chilmark could be at a million-dollar level in 2017,” Mr. Doty said. He drew attention to the oyster disease Vibrio and the importance of proper handling at the source. “We need more supervision, as well as more propagation,” he said. “We’ve been a success and now we need to put more staff out there.”

In other business at the Tuesday meeting, selectman Jonathan Mayhew inquired about the absence of eelgrass in Nashaquitsa Pond, which a state biologist investigated in July and believed was likely the result of crab predation and goose foraging, along with a harsh winter. Eelgrass provides food and habitat for shellfish and other pond organisms.

Shellfish constable Isaiah Scheffer was still perplexed by the total absence, noting that last year’s shellfishing season was among the best so far. He questioned the effect of foraging geese, since the pond was covered in ice and snow for much of the winter.

“I think something happened,” he said, noting that there was still plenty of eelgrass in Menemsha Pond and some in Stonewall Pond. He mentioned a wasting disease in the area many decades ago, and the possibility of chemicals getting into the pond, but couldn’t point to a cause.

“Essentially, Quitsa is our nursery,” he said. “We need that pond to have eelgrass.”

He suggested transplanting and propagating eelgrass from nearby areas, a labor-intensive process that would involve snorkeling and arranging rocks to protect the new plants. Mr. Rossi suggested finding volunteers to help with the effort. “I bet you’d get a lot of support for that,” he said.

The selectmen also met with harbor master Dennis Jason to continue preparing for the dredging project, scheduled to begin last week. Mr. Jason suggested having a small anchorage just south of the channel on the Chilmark side to discourage boat traffic. He also suggested limiting access to Nashaquitsa Pond to boats with less than a three-foot draft.

Mr. Doty recently met with Aquinnah selectman Spencer Booker, who suggested an anchorage somewhere along the town line that divides the pond and channel. Mr. Doty suggested working with Aquinnah to establish the new regulations. He also reasserted his opposition to overnight anchoring.

“For next summer let’s see if we can define an anchorage area — no moorings, no overnight anchorage — and we’ll have one year to see how it goes,” he said.

The selectmen have long opposed the dredging project, arguing that it would encourage more boat traffic and interfere with shellfishing. Aquinnah, however, supports the project as a way to improve the flow of water and nutrients for the shellfish, and to improve navigation.

Chilmark executive secretary Tim Carroll asked Mr. Jason to draw up a new anchorage area in time for a joint meeting between the Aquinnah and Chilmark selectmen, possibly in early November.

“Aquinnah are the people who wanted this dredging,” Mr. Doty said. “So they are going to have to step up to the plate for enforcement on boats up there.”

The Aquinnah selectmen had planned to address the issue at their meeting on Tuesday, but lacked a quorum. The meeting was postponed to next week.