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Hinsdale Select Board reorganizes leadership, approves permits and routine warrants
Summary
At its March 16 meeting the Hinsdale Select Board elected Steve Diorio chair and Mike Carrier vice chair, confirmed committee assignments, and approved several routine permits and tax warrants including a supplemental property tax warrant totaling $2,814.48.
HINSDALE — The Hinsdale Select Board on March 16 reorganized its leadership and approved a series of routine permits and tax warrants.
Select Board Chairman Steve Diorio presided as the board approved the meeting manifests and the public and non-public minutes of March 9. Selectman Mike Carrier moved to approve the manifests and minutes, seconded by Bernie Rideout; the motion carried with Jessica Green recorded as abstaining. Carrier then moved to recommend and appoint Steve Diorio as chair (second: Rideout), and Rideout moved to recommend and appoint Mike Carrier as vice chair (second: William Hodgman). Both appointments were approved by roll call.
The board also finalized committee assignments, naming representatives and alternates for the School Board, Budget Committee, Planning Board, Parks & Recreation, Cemetery, Library, CIP and Conservation, and assigned the TIF representative to Diorio.
On routine business the board approved three Open Container permits for community-center events scheduled for March 24, April 11 and May 9; approved an original warrant yield tax levy for Rodney and Lynn Ebbighausen (Map 20 Lot 74); authorized a driveway permit for Gary Hilliard at 14 Streeter Lane; and approved a supplemental property tax warrant for three parcels (21 Canal Street, 11 Springbrook, 25 Ferncroft) totaling $2,814.48 after staff explained the amounts were prorated following property sales. Motions on these items were moved and seconded by board members and passed by roll call.
Town Administrator Kathryn Lynch presented the 2026 MS-232 report of appropriations actually voted; Jessica Green moved to accept and sign the MS-232 (second: Hodgman), and the board approved the form as presented. Lynch also distributed a draft Code of Ethics and said she would email proposed board goals for review.
The board voted to unseal specified non-public minutes from 2017 (motion: Hodgman; second: Carrier) and to reseal other suggested 2017 minutes (motion: Hodgman; second: Rideout). Ann Diorio described her method for tracking unsealed and resealed minutes and noted she has worked through files into 2019.
The meeting proceeded to non-public session at 7:03 p.m. under RSA 91-A:3 II(a) for personnel matters; it reconvened at 7:19 p.m., and the board adjourned later that evening.
