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ANNUAL REPORT ofthe TOWN NEW OF LYME, HAMPSHIRE For the Year Ending December 31, 2003 TOWN OF LYME LYME, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03768 Location ofTown Offices Basement ofTown Library 38 Union Street Town Clerk PATRICIA G. JENKS 795-2535 Deputy Town Clerk SHARON GREATOREX 795-2535 Office Hours: Monday 9:00 - 12:30 & 4:30 - 6:30 & Wednesday 9:00 - 12:30 4:30 - 6:30 Friday 9:00-12:30 JOANNE COBURN Tax Collector 795-4416 Office Hours: Monday 10:00-12:00 ALLAN NEWTON, Selectmen B. Chair RICHARD JONES G. PETER BLEYLER A. CAROLE BONT Administrative Assistant 795-4639 MWF Office Hours: 9:00-12:30 DINA CUTTING Bookkeeper/Secretary 795-4639 MWF Office Hours: 9:00-12:30 @ DIANA CALDER Assessing Agent 795-4639 Office Hours: By appointment Assessor's Assistant ELISE A. GARRITY 795-4639 MWF Office Hours: 9:00-12:30 & Planning Zoning Administrator VICTORIA DAVIS 795-4639 WF Office Hours: 9:00-12:30 Board of Selectmen Meetings AM Wednesday 9:00 Until meeting is completed Town Office Fax FAX 795-4637 @ Police PAULINE Q. FIELD Emergency 911 ® Local calls 795-2047 ® Dispatch 643-2222 ® Fire Chief MICHAEL C. HINSLEY Emergency 911 ® All other calls 643-3610 FAST Squad BARNEY L. BRANNEN,,111 Emergency® 911 ® All other calls 643-3610 ® BETSY EATON Librarian 795-4622 Library Hours: Monday 1:00- 5:00 Thursday 10:00 -5:00 Tuesday 10:00- 5:00 Friday 10:00 -3:00 Wednesday 10:00- 8:00 Saturday 9:00 -12:00 School Board Meetings PM Thursday 7:00 4'^ Thursday evening each month & Trash Recycling Center Highway Garage Hours: Sunday 8:30AM - 11:00AM P xoo3 ANNUAL REPORT ofthe TOWN LYME OF NEW HAMPSHIRE For the year ending December 3 2003 1, TABLE OF CONTENTS Town Lyme of General Information Town Office Hours Inside front cover Dedication 1 In Memoriam 2 Town Officers, Committee and Board Members 5 Warrant for 2004 (Annual Town Meeting) Warrant for March 9, 2004, Annual Town Meeting 14 Explanation ofProposed Zoning Ordinance Amendments 2004 24 Public Works Facility Building Committee Report 45 Photos ofPublic Works Facility (Interior and Exterior) 47 Plan ofProposed New Public Works Facility 48 Site Plan ofProposed Lyme Public Works Facility 49 Budget Proposed for 2004 (Annual Town Meeting) (Per RSA 32:5, VII) Current Budget of Town ofLyme (2004) Form MS-7 (Required for Municipal Budget Act Towns) 50 Comparative Budget Worksheet (2004) Appropriations 60 Revenues 77 Minutes Minutes ofMarch 11, 2003, Annual Town Meeting 81 Town Government and Financial Town Reports for 2003 Auditors' Letter (Current Year - 2003) 96 Auditors' Statement (Last Year - 2002) Independent Auditor's Report 101 Summary Inventory ofAssessed Valuation (Excerpts from MS- Form for 2003) 125 1 Summary ofRevised Estimated Revenues for 2003 (Excerpts from MS-4 Form for 2003) 129 Schedule ofTown of Lyme Property 2003 130 Town Clerk 133 Treasurer 134 Treasurer's Report of Conservation Funds 136 Trustees of Trust Funds 137 Tax Information Tax Collector's Report (Form MS-61) 142 Statement ofAppropriations and Taxes Assessed (2003) 146 Statement ofComparative Assessments and Tax Rates (1990 - 2003) 147 Tax Rate Comparative Analysis (1967 - 2003) 148 Board, Department and Committee Reports for 2003 Academy, Lyme Center Academy Building Management Committee 150 Assessing Department 150 Cemetery Commissioners 151 Connecticut River Joint Commissions 152 Conservation Commission 153 Emergency Management 154 Energy Committee 157 Fast Squad 158 Fire Department 159 Forest Fire Warden and State Forest Ranger 161 Library Trustees (Converse Free Library) 163 Planning Board 164 Police Department 165 Recreation Commission 169 Selectmen 171 Transfer Station Study Committee 173 Trout Pond Forest Management Committee 174 Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission 174 - Upper Valley River Subcommittee Connecticut River Joint Commissions 177 Zoning Board ofAdjustment 178 Grafton County Reports: U.N.H Cooperative Extension, Grafton County Office 179 Supported Outside Agencies' Reports: Grafton County Senior Citizens Council, Inc 181 Headrest 183 Listen Community Services 184 Lyme Foundation 185 VNA NH & VT and Hospice of Inc. (Visiting Nurse Alliance) 187 Wise (Women's Information Service) 188 Vital Statistics: Births 190 Marriages 191 Deaths 192 Lyme School District RSA (See 32:5,VII) Officers: Lyme School District School Board 195 Lyme School District Officers 195 Lyme School District Administration 195 Warrants: Warrant for Meeting, March 4, 2004 (School District Annual Meeting) 196 . Warrant for Meeting, March 9, 2004 (Election ofOfficers) 198 Minutes: Minutes ofMeeting, March 2003 1 1, (Record ofElection of Officers) 199 Minutes ofMeeting, March 13, 2003 (School District Annual Meeting Minutes) 200 Budget: & Proposed Budget ofBudget Committee School Board For 2004-2005 (MS-27) - Expenditures & Revenues 203 Statement ofProposed Expenditure Budget For the 2004-2005 School Year (Summary Budget) 210 Statement ofProposed Expenditure Budget For the 2004-2005 School Year (Detailed Budget) 212 Children of Lyme (Photographs) 222 Statement ofProjected Revenues For the 2004-2005 School Year 224 & Accounting ofActual Special Education Expenses Revenues 227 Financial Reports: Independent Auditor's Report For the year ended June 30, 2003 228 General Reports: School Board Report 237 Principal's Report 238 Thetford Academy School, Report ofthe Head of 239 Instructional Staff as ofJanuary 1, 2004 .244 Students: 2003 Lyme School Eighth Grade Graduates 245 2003 High School Graduates from Lyme 245 Lyme High School Students as ofOctober 1, 2003 245 Comparative Yearly Enrollments as of October of each year 246 1, Photographs: Photo Descriptions and Credits 247 IN DEDICATION OF YODA FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE OF BENJAMIN KILHAM, NATURALIST, OF LYME, NH The Town of Lyme is endowed with many talented citizens who give of their time and expertise in a cooperative and positive manner. One of those special people is our own bear man, Ben Kilham with his love for animals. Through his love for animals, particularly bears, he brought our whole community Yoda. Yoda was raised from infancy by the caring and loving hands of Ben. Yoda lived to bear (pun intended) and raise her cubs in the woods of Lyme. In the fall of 2003, during bear hunting season, Yoda was killed. Trusting ofman and wearing a large, bright orange and yellow-colored tracking device around her neck, she was an easy target for human short- sightedness and indifference. We are grateful to Yoda. She helped Ben to learn and understand some of the behaviors of our quiet and elusive neighbors, the black bears. Ben, in turn, shared what he learned with all of us. Yoda's death represents a loss to us in our quest to understand the life and spirit of the bear. Her death is a loss to us also as a fellow mammal and a spiritual totem ofour ancestors. MEMORIAM IN We are better for having known, shared and Hved with these extraordinary people. John Harlow (1918 - 2003) During his time in Lyme, Mr. Harlow served as a selectman from 1976-1982. He serv^ed as Lyme's first interim Administrative Assistant from 1982 to spring of 1983. He was active with both the Recreation Commission and the Youth Committee and served as the court appointed Probation Officer in 1977. Everett "Shine" King (1923 - 2003) Mr. King and his wife, Priscilla, moved to Lyme in 1959 and built and operated a daiiy farm. He served on the Board of Selectmen from 1962 to 1968, the Planning Board from 1973 to 1978 and the Budget Committee from 1982 to 1985. MEMORIAM IN Vivian G. Piper (1918 - 2003) Mrs. Piper was bom in Lyme, delivered by Dr. Weymouth, and lived in Lyme her entire life. Her books and memories of life in rural Lyme have touched many people over the years. She was the "school bus driver". She provided transportation for rural students to the Lyme Schools for nearly 20 years, with a horse and wagon or with an old truck, whenever the road conditions would allow. Fred O. Stearns Jr. (1929 - 2003) Mr. Steams lived most of his life as a resident of Lyme. After his retirement from TmmbuU-Nelson Constmction Company in Hanover after 44 years, he worked for the Town of Lyme as a part time road crew member from 1994 to 2003 where he worked with two ofhis sons, Fred O. Steams, III, Road Agent, and Russell Steams.