October’s Town Meeting is taking shape as Selectmen approved a slew of items, including a tax break for a new business, money for a dog park and funds to repair the Town Hall auditorium, for its agenda.

Tuesday marked the final day Selectmen could place town-sponsored measures on the agenda. Citizen’s petition items requiring the signatures of at least 10 registered voters may be placed on the agenda until Sept. 7.

In total, 33 town-sponsored items are on the agenda. Selectmen approved 16 of those Tuesday. Voters at the Oct. 23 Town Meeting will have the final say on whether the items are approved.

Among those items was a five-year tax break, known as a TIF (tax increment financing), for Stone Path Malt. The business, which will sell malt to home beer brewers, is expected to create 14 full-time jobs in town and open in 2018.

Selectman Alan Slavin said that the town doesn’t often offer those types of tax breaks, previous recipients include TownPlace Suites by Marriott and Chatham Village Croutons. However, by offering the tax break developers then may seek additional funds from the state.

“The town has to show that we have some skin in the game, so to speak,” said Slavin.

Selectmen also placed an agenda item from the Community Preservation Committee requesting $20,000 for a new dog park. The effort is being spearheaded by the non-profit DPAW (Dog Park Affiliates of Wareham). The park is being proposed for a town-owned plot of just over an acre off Maple Springs Road.

The $20,000 requested will show the town is invested in having a dog park and could make it easier to obtain a grant for $180,000 that will be requested from The Stanton Foundation, according to DPAW.

Selectman Chair Peter Teitelbaum said DPAW has worked hard the past year to answer liability and maintenance questions that initially surrounded the park.

Another Community Preservation Committee request, one seeking $120,000 to repair the Town Hall auditorium’s leaking roof, was also approved.

A handful of items were not placed on the agenda. They included a request from the Marine Resources Commission seeking support to dredge the Wareham River channel.

The federal channel is approximately 1 mile long, 125 feet wide and runs from Parkwood Beach to the Narrows. Created in 1897 by the federal government, the channel was last dredged in the 1950s. According to the Marine Resources Commission, a deeper channel reduces the risk of boats running aground.

Selectmen voted against placing the item on the agenda because it wasn’t drafted properly, according to town counsel Richard Bowen.

“It’s not written as an article,” Bowen told Selectmen. “It’s nothing you can put on the warrant.”

Slavin said the item was written as more of an explanation for the need for dredging the channel. Instead, the item should have identified how the dredging should be funded.

Slavin suggested adding the dredging as an action item on the town’s Master Plan.

The Master Plan came up again as board members shot down a request from the Community Preservation Committee seeking to use $91,500 to buy Stoney Run. Located on Main Street, the committee eyed the plot of land for preservation and recreation.

Board members reminded the committee that last year they decided to hold off on buying preservation land until the Master Plan was updated. An updated plan would create a proper road map for preservation, according to Teitelbaum and board member Patrick Tropeano.

According to Teitelbaum, who participated remotely in Tuesday’s meeting, the method of assembling the agenda should be tweaked for next year to avoid a “disjointed” process.

“I had some concerns, but we came up with a Town Meeting warrant that doesn’t look like it was written by apes,” said Teitelbaum.