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Henniker sets 2025 property tax rate; library budget, cemetery and master‑plan funding discussed
Summary
Select Board announced a 2025 total property tax rate of $24.13 (up $0.23 from 2024), reviewed the Tucker Free Library budget request (about a 5% increase), heard a flat cemetery budget, and unanimously authorized a $15,000 master‑plan phase‑1 agreement with Central NH Regional Planning.
The Henniker Select Board on Nov. 18 announced the town’s total 2025 property tax rate will be $24.13 — an increase of $0.23 from 2024 — and notified residents that bills will be mailed by the end of the week. The Chair said the board had worked to limit the increase.
The board reviewed several budget items in advance of next year’s town meeting. The Tucker Free Library requested an approximate 5% increase in its town request, driven primarily by wages and benefits; library representatives said they are not adding hours or new hires but expect higher personnel and utility costs. The trustees anticipate using interest from two trust funds to offset part of the request (trust balances discussed: TD Bank account about $381,000; town‑managed trusts about $970,000). The board and trustees have not yet decided whether to draw principal from a third account.
Tim McComish presented a cemetery budget that the cemetery committee kept flat from last year, reporting ongoing stone repairs and hazardous‑tree removals, and noted the town maintains four cemeteries included in that budget.
On planning, the board unanimously authorized executing a letter of agreement with Central New Hampshire Regional Planning to fund Phase 1A of a master‑plan update using $15,000 available in the planning board’s 2025 budget. Select Board members said updating the 2002 master plan is timely and can be a factor in future grant applications.
Action items recorded in the meeting minutes included routine approvals of consent and meeting minutes. The master‑plan vote passed unanimously; the board also approved volunteer appointments to the reconstituted Spirit of Henniker committee.
