Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Land Records topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Town accepts 2025 perambulation report, will ask neighbors to share cost of missing boundary markers
Summary
The council unanimously accepted the seven-year town boundary perambulation report, authorizing the Town Manager to negotiate cost-sharing with abutting municipalities to replace missing or disturbed markers; DPW reported several stones were missing or disturbed and two were affected by DOT projects.
The Bedford Town Council voted Jan. 21 to accept the 2025 town boundary perambulation report and authorized the Town Manager to negotiate cost-sharing agreements with neighboring municipalities for repair or replacement of missing or disturbed boundary markers.
DPW Director Brian Desfosses thanked DPW staff (and specifically Brandon Boisvert) for preparing the schematics and said a number of markers were missing, disturbed, or affected by DOT work. He asked permission to work with abutting communities—including Amherst and Manchester—and with DOT on markers disturbed during state projects. The council unanimously approved the acceptance motion and the negotiated cost-sharing authority.
Councilors discussed logistics and history: the perambulation is performed every seven years under RSA 51:2, and some neighboring towns do not conduct the exercise as regularly. Councilor Greazzo raised the idea of adding GPS coordinates as a modern alternative to physical markers; Councilor Bemiss noted the practice traces to 18th-century colonial methods for maintaining accurate boundaries. Desfosses said locating markers generally required a few days per neighboring town and that costs vary depending on whether a physical survey is needed.
