SAUGUS – Town Moderator Robert Long thinks the opener of tonight’s annual Town Meeting might be the busiest one in recent years.”We absolutely have work to do,” he said. “It turns out we have quite a bit to work on.”Town Meeting traditionally opens with a lot of pomp and circumstance, but not a lot of substance. Financial articles are generally put aside because the Finance Committee rarely has the budget ready.This year, however, Long said meeting members would take up articles 8-12, which are the town’s revolving accounts.There are also a number of other articles, he said, that were ready to be tackled, the most infamous of which is Article 28 on citizens forum. Town Meeting members are being asked to force the hand of another board to put citizens’ forum back in its line up.Last November, the Board of Selectmen voted 3-1 with Michael Kelleher absent to remove citizens’ forum from the board’s agenda. Instead, residents are required to request to be put on the agenda for the correspondence portion of the meeting if they have an issue to bring to the board.Kelleher, along with Selectman Stephen Horlick, have twice tried to change the policy back, but their colleagues Stephen Castinetti, Peter Rossetti and Donald Wong have held fast to their convictions.In a last attempt to reverse the decision, Kelleher filed an article asking for an amendment to the town’s bylaws. The new section would require the Board of Selectmen to allow any resident to appear before the board on any subject matter involving the town.Long said he expects a lot of lively debate on the issue where “we’ll practice free speech.”Long said he also plans to bring forth Article 20, which would authorize the town to appoint parking control officers with the same powers and duties police officers have.Town Manager Andrew Bisignani sponsored this article after the Patrolman’s Union won a grievance over Bisignani’s appointment of K-9 Office Harold Young as a parking officer. Young had to turn in his ticket book after an arbitrator ruled in the union’s favor.Meeting members will also be asked to decide whether the Charter Commission should be budgeted $25,000 to consider a lengthy article on shade trees. If there is time, Long said he’d like to clear Article 34, which seeks to rezone the Salt Marsh Garden Center on Lincoln Avenue from single family to multi-residential.While the 10 articles on tonight’s agenda represent a lot of work, it is only one-third of the warrant. Long said he expects meeting members to work through the remaining 24 articles over the next few weeks.”I think this year we will wrap up much sooner than we have in the recent past,” he said. “Finance Committee is already well into the special articles, so it looks promising.”