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Votes at a glance: Select Board recommends budgets, approves library, conservation and routine items
Summary
The Select Board approved the library operating budget and recommended several level‑funded departmental budgets to the budget committee. The board also approved a conservation/dam authority increase and routine administrative items.
Summary: At the meeting the Select Board approved the library operating budget and took votes to recommend or approve a series of departmental budgets and administrative items to the budget committee.
Key outcomes
- Library operating budget: Approved. Increase of $10,800 for a total of $278,006.20 (approximately 4%); motion made and seconded and passed unanimously by those present.
- Interest on line of credit: Approved. The board approved retaining $30,000 for interest on the town’s line of credit; motion made and seconded and passed "Aye." Officials said the town has not needed to draw on the line in recent years.
- Trustees of Trust Fund budget: Approved. Level-funded at $7,040; motion passed.
- Firewarden budget: Approved. Level-funded at $22,070; Chief Riley advised that level funding is adequate.
- Emergency management: Approved. Level-funded at $12,005.35; staff reported consultation with the emergency coordinator.
- Conservation / dam authority: Approved with increase. The board approved a $7,500 increase for the dam authority line, producing a total conservation budget (as presented) of $17,008.50. Board members said they will seek more financial detail from neighboring towns and the dam authority before the town meeting but recommended the increase be included in committee deliberations.
- Planning Board: Approved. Level-funded at $11,007.50.
- Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA): Approved. Level-funded at $3,400.
- Abatement: Approved. Public Works recommended approval of a water abatement related to Map 91 Lot 59; transcript presented the abatement amount unclearly and the board moved to approve as recommended by Public Works.
- Minutes and elderly exemption: Approved. Meeting minutes from the prior meeting were approved, and an elderly exemption application (Map 102 Lot 3) was approved after assessor review.
Procedure & next steps: Most items were described in the meeting as recommendations to the town’s budget committee; the exceptions were the library budget (described as under trustees' management) and administrative approvals such as meeting minutes and abatement. The Select Board also completed nonpublic sessions under RSA 91‑A provisions and voted to seal minutes from the nonpublic session as allowed by state law.
Vote details and provenance: Motions were made, seconded and passed with an "Aye" vote for each item as recorded in the meeting transcript. The meeting record did not include individual roll-call vote names for each motion; tallies in the transcript were verbal affirmations rather than recorded named votes.
