Packing Harvard’s Town Hall meeting room last weekend, more than 60 residents gathered to nominate candidates to fill the 20 seats on town boards, commissions, and committees.

As engineers were wrapping up their work on the designs scheduled to go to contractors for bids this spring, the committee that manages construction of the new town center system approved by Harvard voters last year hit a financial barrier.

With Annual Town Meeting set for May 1, 2010, the Finance Committee (FinCom) is scrutinizing several factors to arrive at a balanced budget for the town.

The bill to create a sewer district in the center of Harvard is now law, completing one of two key steps necessary to put shovels into the ground to build the system later this year.