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Votes at a glance: Tamworth Select Board approvals on April 22 include hazard mitigation plan, contracts, permits and financial warrants
Summary
The board adopted the town's updated 2025 hazard mitigation plan, approved multiple contract awards and administrative items, passed a string of signature-file permits and tax/exemption requests and approved payroll and accounts payable warrants.
At its April 22 meeting the Tamworth Select Board approved a set of motions and roll-call votes covering planning, contracts, personnel administration and routine signature-file items. Key approvals included adoption of an updated hazard mitigation plan, contract awards for the transfer station bathroom project (see separate article), approval of an architect oversight contract, and a broad set of signature-file items and warrants.
Major formal actions recorded on the meeting record:
- Hazard mitigation plan: The board moved and adopted the updated 2025 hazard mitigation plan prepared by department heads and consulting firm Mapping and Planning Solutions. (Motion passed by roll call.)
- Transfer station and construction contracts: See transfer station article for the Hartley Well Drilling waterline award (<= $10,500) and Alba Architects supervision agreement (<= $8,750), both approved by roll call.
- Personnel policy: The board adopted an amended personnel policy adding a sick bank and appointed committee members to administer it. (Motion passed by roll call.)
- Club Motorsports (CMI Tamworth): The board approved an attorney‑drafted letter (with edits) asking CMI to respond to a prior data request within 10 days and to attend a meeting. (Motion passed by roll call.)
- Signature-file items and permits (single roll-call handling): The board approved multiple administrative and permit items including a distillery permit upgrade, a farmers-market application, an outdoor event permit for the Tamworth Arts Council, an intent-to-cut filing, timber and excavation tax payments, and a series of PA-30/PA-29 tax deferral/exemption applications. Where dollar amounts were stated in the meeting record, they are noted below.
- Payroll and warrants: The board approved payroll in the amount of $60,771.53 and accounts payable in the amount of $320,141.18 (the accounts-payable number includes a school payment of $276,000).
Other routine approvals included several institutional-exemption worksheets (Huggins Hospital, Fair Camp Center for Sustainable Community, Barnstormers Theater) and a current-use application.
The board also voted to enter non-public sessions under applicable RSA provisions and later exited non-public; the minutes state the non-public minutes were not sealed. The meeting adjourned at 7:08 p.m.
