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S.H **& 1997 Annual Report Bow, H. H. , Ji i' Slf The 1997 fall foliage radiates brightly at the Town Pond adjacent to the Community Building (Photograph courtesy ofEricAnderson) 1997 Annual Report of The Town Bow of New Hampshire Jane Woodbury - The Board ofSelectmen presented the Boston Post Cane to Jane Woodbury, Bow's most seniorresident, at the age of97. She has lived on the South Bow Road in Bow since the early 1930s. (Photo courtest ofEricAnderson) TABLE OF CONTENTS Town Officers and Staff 5 Town Meeting Minutes, 1997 12 Selectmen's Message 23 Town Warrant 29 Town Budget 34 Financial Schedules Auditor's Report 45 Combined Balance Sheet 46 Combined StatementofRevenues, Expenditures and Changes in Fund Balances 47 Detailed Statement ofExpenditures 48 Schedule ofTown Property 62 StatementofAppropriations, Expenditures and Encumbrances 65 StatementofAppropriations, TaxesAssessed andTax Rate 67 StatementofEstimated andActual Revenues 68 Summary Inventory - 1997 69 Tax Collector's Report 70 Town Clerk 73 Treasurer's Report 76 TrustFunds 77 Vital Statistics 81 Bow School District Report SI & Boards, Committees, Commissions DepartmentReports, Regional Agencies/Organizations BakerFree Library 91 Bow Business DevelopmentCommittee 96 Building Inspector 97 Capital Improvements Plan 99 Central NH Regional Planning Commission 106 Concord RegionalVisiting NurseAssociation 107 Conservation Commission 109 Dispatch Center 110 Economic DevelopmentCommittee Ill Fire Department 112 Forest FireWarden and State Forest Ranger 114 Health Officer 115 Historical Commission 117 Parks and Recreation Commission 119 Planning Board 103 Police Department 124 DepartmentofPublicWorks 126 Recycling Committee 131 3 UNH Cooperative Extension 133 UpperMerrimack RiverLocalAdvisory Committee 134 Welfare Department 136 Zoning Board ofAdjustment 137 Clubs and Organizations Athletic Club 139 Bow Rotary Club 141 Boy Scouts 143 Fire Department LadiesAuxiliary 145 Garden Club 147 Girl Scouts 148 Men's Club 149 Young at HeartClub 150 Appendix Town ofBow Charter 151 TOWN DIRECTORY TOWN OFFICERS AND STAFF Representatives to General Court Pat Krueger, Dist. 7 Stephen Destafano, Dist. 7 Eric E. Anderson, Dist. 7 Michael Whalley, Dist. 5 Moderator John Lyford Supervisors ofChecklist CynthiaGow Term Expires 1998 Phyllis Benoit Term Expires 2000 Sara Swenson Term Expires 2002 Selectmen Eric E. Anderson Term Expires 1998 Jonathan K. Hanson Term Expires 1999 Isabel Sinclair Term Expires 2000 Town Manager Albert R. St. Cyr Town Clerk/Tax Collector Jill Hadaway Deputy Town Clerk Marilyn Lull Building Inspector Bud Currier Planning and Economic Development Director Bill Klubben Police Chief PeterA. Cheney DirectorofPublic Works Leighton Cleverly Fire Chief H. DanaAbbott Treasurer Mark Lavalle Deputy Treasurer John Sheridan AdministrativeAsst. toTown Manager Gail F. Loomis Assessor'sAssistant Martha Cheney Recreation Director Charles Christy Bookkeeper PaulaA. Dwinal MD Health Officer EthanV. Howard, Welfare Director Evelyn Bechtel Custodian Myrton Fellows Budget Committee EthanV. Howard Term Expires 1998 John Burton Term Expires 1998 Raymond Godbout Term Expires 1998 Sara Swenson, Ch Term Expires 1999 Gary Gordon Term Expires 2000 Lynn Haney Term Expires 2000 Jonathan Hanson, Selectmen's Representative Christopher Parkinson, School Board BakerFree Library Karen Boyd, Trustee Term Expires 1998 AndrewTu, Trustee Term Expires 1998 Virginia Shirk, Trustee Term Expires 2000 Janine Parkinson, Trustee Term Expires 2001 JeanetteWhaland Term Expires 2002 Linda Kling Director DonnaTerrell Children's Librarian Charlotte Buxton LibraryAssistant Donna Downs LibraryAssistant AbeAnderson Bookkeeper Bob Wilson Custodian Daniel Bunker Page JenniferEricsson Sub Judy King Sub Lois Marchand Sub Patricia Lynn Sub Teri Tu Sub Trustees ofTrust Funds Edwin Bardwell Term Expires 1998 Richard Manburg Term Expires 1999 Susan Keller Term Expires 2000 Planning Board AndrewYoung Term Expires 1998 Thomas Kiernan Term Expires 1998 Fred Douglas, Ch Term Expires 1999 Stephen Buckley Term Expires 1999 Robert Dawkins Term Expires 2000 Pansy Bloomfield Term Expires 2000 EricAnderson, Selectman Term Expires 1998 Richard Weed, Alternate Term Expires 1998 Terrance Large, Alternate Term Expires 1998 Arthur Cunningham, Alternate Term Expires 1999 Nicholas Cricenti, Alternate Term Expires 1999 Gini Deragon,Alternate Term Expires 2000 Ballot Clerks Rose Cross, Republican Virginia Urdi, Democrat MelbaTerrell, Republican Barbara Person, Republican Betty Lund, Republican Kathy Lassey, Republican -Alternate Carlotta Robbins, Democrat -Alernate Recreation Commission Roland Robinson Term Expires 1998 Charles Rheinhardt, Ch Term Expires 1998 Elizabeth Lund Term Expires 1999 CynthiaGow Term Expires 1999 Robert Gosling Term Expires 2000 Economic Development Commission Marjo Hebert Term Expires 1998 PeterWinship Term Expires 1998 Michael Moyers Term Expires 1998 Paul Roy Term Expires 1999 Valerie Lynn Term Expires 1999 Richard Manburg Term Expires 2000 Terrance Large Term Expires 2000 Jonathan Hanson, Selectman Term Expires 1998 Highway Safety Committee PeterA. Cheney Term Expires 1998 Leighton Cleverly Term Expires 1998 DanaAbbott Term Expires 1998 Michael Whalley Term Expires 1998 Halstead Colby Term Expires 1998 James Cailler Term Expires 1998 Jonathan Hanson, Selectman Term Expires 1998 Historical Commission Carol Gouin Term Expires 1998 Robert Morgan Term Expires 1998 Jane Lindquist Term Expires 1999 Betty Hanson Term Expires 1999 George Prusia Term Expires 2000 Kenneth Ball Term Expires 2000 Isabel Sinclair, Selectman Term Expires 1998 Zoning Board ofAdjustment Douglas Byrd Term Expires 1998 Clarence Bourassa Term Expires 1999 Robert Zinser, Ch Term Expires 1999 Tracey Sweeney Term Expires 2000 Robert Mack Term Expires 2000 David Bolton, Alternate Term Expires 1998 Ian Hecker,Alternate Term Expires 1998 Greg Marceau, Alternate Term Expires 1999 Anne Ross, Alternate Term Expires 2000 Harry Hadaway, Alternate Term Expires 2000 John Meissner Term Expires 1998 Harold Keyes Term Expires 1998 Peter Shauer Term Expires 1998 PhilipWolfe, Ch Term Expires 1999 Katherine Lane Term Expires 1999 Richard Sheridan Term Expires 2000 Michael Seraikas Term Expires 2000 Recycling Committee Georgette Daugherty, Ch Term Expires 1998 Philip Downie Term Expires 1999 Nancy Weaver Term Expires 1999 Sheryl Cheney Term Expires 2000 Bill Capozzi Term Expires 2000 School Representative Term Expires 1998 UpperMerrimack River LocalAdvisory Committee Representatives EncAnderson Term Expires 1998 Susan Paschell Term Expires 1999 Philip Downie Term Expires 2000 Central NH Regional Planning Commission Representatives AndrewYoung Term Expires 1998 Vacant Term Expires 1998 Representatives to Regional Refuse Disposal Commission Wayne Eddy Term Expires 1998 Leighton Cleverly Term Expires 1999 BuildingAdvisory Committee Bud Currier Term Expires 1998 David Bolton Term Expires 1999 David Cook, Ch Term Expires 1999 Paul Hammond Term Expires 2000 Gary Gordon Term Expires 2000 Website Development Committee Jordan McKible, Student Term Expires 1998 Brad Jobel, Student Term Expires 1998 Terrance Large, Economic Development Term Expires 1999 Jonathan Hanson, Selectman Term Expires 999 1 Robert Couch, Ch Term Expires 2000 Ronald Jobel Term Expires 2000 Andrew Tu Term Expires 2000