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F NEW BOSTON NEW HAMPSHIRE BOSTON f~*- wmmmm fmrmmx. Town and School Reports 1999 COVER: ©1999 Brandy Mitroff, New Boston Bulletin TOWN OF NEW BOSTON II NEW HAMPSHIRE ANNUAL REPORT for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1999 Number of Registered Voters - 2,911 Population (est.) - 3,700 ASSESSED VALUATION Property 197,775,836.00 Less Elderly Exemption 270,000.00 Less Physically Handicapped 2 ,550.00 1 Less Totally and Permanently Disabled Exemption 32,000.00 Taxable Total 197,452,286.00 School District 8.15 Local State Education 6.54 Town 6.16 County 1.85 Tax Rate Per $ ,000 22.70 1 REPORT SCHOOL DISTRICT of the For the Year Ending June 30, 1999 1999 Milestones March New Boston voted on March 3, 1999 to go to official ballot instead of Town Meeting. James Dodge retired as New Boston Fire Chief after twenty years of service. April Louis Kachavos, past memberofthe Road Committee, member of the Library Building Committee and volunteer computer Technician and instructor for the Library died, April 22, 1999. June Claire Dodge resigned as Planning Coordinator on June 10, 1999 after many years of service. July Richard "Bushie" Bouchard retired from the Highway Department on July 31, 1999 after many years of service. September New Boston Central School Starts Construction ofthe Addition on September 20, 1999. Fire Department took delivery of the 1999 Marque 4 wheel drive Ambulance on September 25, 1999. October Margit Hooper resigned as Town Clerk on October 8, 1999 after many years of service. Simone Hunter resigned as Building office Secretary on October 16, 1999 after many years of service. December Mary E. Statt, Librarian at the New Boston Central School and the Whipple Free Library for more than twenty-five years died, December 13, 1999. Martha P. Brooks, past member of the Conservation Commission died, December 17, 1999. Karen Craven resigned as Bookkeeper on December 28, 1999 after many years of service. TABLE OF CONTENTS Budget 21 Budget Proposal - Appropriations 40 Building Department Report 88 Capital Improvement Report 92 Cemetery Report 131 Conservation Commission Report 117 Detailed Statement ofReceipts 37 Finance Committee Report 76 Fire Department Report 100 Forest Fire Warden Report 108 Forestry Committee Report 128 Hazardous Waste Report 120 Home Health Care Report 130 Library Reports 110 Planning Board Report 84 Police Department Report 96 Recreation Committee Report 116 Road Committee Report 91 Schedule ofTown Property 69 Solid Waste Committee Report 124 & Solid Waste Transfer Station Recycling Center Report 125 NH Southern Planning Commission Report 95 Tax Collector's Report 68 Town Clerk's Report 67 Town Meeting Minutes 27 Town Officers 4 Treasurer's Report 56 Trust Fund Report 72 Vital Statistics 133 Warrant 8 Warrant Article Voters Guide 16 Zoning Board ofAdjustment 89 SCHOOL District Warrant 168 Enrollment Summary 142 Financial Reports 165 Health Report 152 Officers and Teachers Listing 140 Principals Report 148 School Budget 170 School District Meeting 161 Superintendent's Report 143 Town Officers Susan J. Clay, Selectman - Chairman Term Expires 2000 Lois A. Briere, Selectman Term Expires 2001 Gordon A. Carlstrom, Selectman Term Expires 2002 Margit Hooper, Town Clerk - resigned Term Expires 2002 Irene Baudreau, Town Clerk Term Expires 2000 Michele Merron, Deputy Town Clerk Irene Baudreau, Tax Collector Term Expires 2002 Margit Hooper, Deputy Tax Collector - resigned June Hicks, Treasurer Term Expires 1999 Lee C. Nyquist, Esq., Moderator Term Expires 2000 Lee D. Murray, Road Agent Term Expires 2000 Daniel MacDonald, Fire Chief Burton H. Reynolds, Town Administrator James E. McLaughlin, Police Chief Douglas MacDonald, MD, FACP Selectmen, Overseer of Public Welfare David L. Nixon, Esq. Town Counsel Leslie C. Nixon, Esq. Town Counsel Dennis Sarette, Building Inspector EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Bernard A. Streeter, Jr. District 5 Term Expires 2000 STATE SENATOR NH Sheila Roberge, Bedford, District 9 Term Expires 2000 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GENERAL COURT Pierre W. Bruno Term Expires 2000 New Boston, NH District 4 Alan Thulander Term Expires 2000 New Boston, NH District 5 PLANNING BOARD Wayne Blassberg, Chairman Term Expires 2000 William J. Hebert Term Expires 2001 Rick Riendeau, Vice Chairman Term Expires 2002 Jeffrey Downing, resigned Term Expires 2002 Diane Manson, Secretary Appointment Expires 2000 Brent Armstrong, Alternate Appointment Expires 2000 Paula Bellemore, Alternate Appointment Expires 2000 BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT Laura Todd, Alternate, Clerk Appointment Expires 1999 William Elliott Appointment Expires 2000 William Brendle, Chairman Appointment Expires 2001 Geoffrey Katz Appointment Expires 2001 Kevin Ryan Appointment Expires 2002 Edward Dipietro, Alternate Appointment Expires 2002 David R. Craig Appointment Expires 2002 ROAD COMMITTEE Gary Robbins Appointment Expires 2000 Bruce Fillmore Appointment Expires 2001 Harold Strong Appointment Expires 2001 Richard Moody Appointment Expires 2002 Lee Murray, Road Agent Board of Selectmen FORESTRY COMMITTEE Lauren Harveson, Associate Member Appointment Expires 2000 Joseph Constance Appointment Expires 2000 Tim Trimbur Appointment Expires 2001 Graham Pendlebury, Associate Member Appointment Expires 2001 Ellen Reilly Appointment Expires 2001 David Allen Appointment Expires 2002 Robert B. Todd, Sr. Appointment Expires 2002 Jonathan Brooks Appointment Expires 2002 RECREATION COMMISSION Nancy Clark Appointment Expires 2000 June Hicks Appointment Expires 2000 David Hulick, Chairman Appointment Expires 2001 Susan Bennett Appointment Expires 2001 Robert Waller Appointment Expires 2001 Mark Frawley, Assistant Chairman Appointment Expires 2002 Marcele Morton Appointment Expires 2002 Toni J. Pierce, Director TRUSTEES OF THE TRUST FUNDS Warren Houghton Term Expires 2000 William Morin Term Expires 2001 James W. Whipple Term Expires 2002 FIRE WARDS James W. Dodge resigned Term Expires 2000 , Dale Smith, resigned Term Expires 2000 David Rugg Term Expires 2000 Daniel MacDonald Term Expires 2000 Richard Moody Term Expires 2001 Clifford Plourde Term Expires 2001 Wayne Blassberg Term Expires 2002 George Owen St. John Term Expires 2002 CEMETERY TRUSTEES David Woodbury, Esq., Treasurer Walter Houghton Leon Daniels Robert B. Todd, Sr Jerry Kennedy LIBRARY TRUSTEES Ellen Ruggles Term Expires 2000 Timothy Cady Term Expires 2000 James Smith Term Expires 2000 Patricia Jennings, chairman Term Expires 2001 Jan Walker Term Expires 2001 Carol Hess Term Expires 2002 Beatrice Peirce Term Expires 2002 FINANCE COMMITTEE Kim DiPietro Appointment Expires 2000 Peter Clark, Alternate Appointment Expires 2001 Daniel Rothman, Chairman Appointment Expires 2001 Louis Lanzillotti Appointment Expires 2001 Brandy Mitroff Appointment Expires 2002 Sheila Malynowski Appointment Expires 2002 Alfred Romano Representing School Board Board of Selectmen Representing Selectmen 1 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Bestey Dodge Appointment Expires 2000 Joseph Nangle, Alternate Appointment Expires 2000 Ray Whittmore Appointment Expires 2000 Cyndie Wilson Appointment Expires 200 Robert Fehsinger Appointment Expires 2001 Louis Maynard, Alternate Appointment Expires 2001 Brenda Lind, Alternate Appointment Expires 2001 Mary Carol Schaffrath Appointment Expires 2002 Edward O'Rourke, Alternate Appointment Expires 2002 Deborah Keiner Appointment Expires 2002 SUPERVISORS OF CHECKLIST David Mudrick Term Expires 2000 Sarah Chapman Term Expires 2004 Cathleen Strausbaugh Term Expires 2002 SOLID WASTE COMMITTEE Michael Richard Appointment Expires 2000 Jed Callen Appointment Expires 2000 Robert B. Todd, Sr Appointment Expires 2001 Bruce Tostevin Appointment Expires 2002 Bonnie Bethune, Ex-officio CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM COMMITTEE Planning Board: Rick Riendeau, Chairman Wayne Blassberg Vice-Chairman , Diane Manson Paula Bellemore Brent Armstrong Bill Hebert Ex-Officio Lois Briere CIP Members: Shawn Fish Martha Gately Finance Committee Representative Kim DiPietro TOWN WARRANT 2000 THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE To the inhabitants ofthe Town ofNew Boston, in the county ofHillsborough qualified to vote in town affairs: You are hereby notified to meet at the New Boston Central School in said New Boston on Tuesday the fourteenth ofMarch next. Polls will be opened at 7 o'clock in the forenoon to take up articles 1 through 34. Polls will close at 7 o'clock in the evening. Article 1. To choose all necessary officers for the ensuing year. Article 2. Are you in favor of the adoption of an Amendment as proposed by petition for the Town ofNew Boston Zoning Ordinance, as follows: To create a new district, to be called the New Boston Village District, which shall include all properties in whole or in part contained within a circle with a radius of 0.6 mile (six-tenths of a mile) with its center point at the southeast corner of the Dodge's Store property (7 Central Square, tax map 18, lot 10). This district shall be a zoning overlay district in which the standards to apply shall be different than and additional to those in the underlying districts. The purpose of the New Boston Village District zoning overlay district is to make less restrictive the requirements forlot sizes, interiorsquarerequirements, setbacks, and any other measurements which relate to lot size. Within the New Boston Village District the measurements may be one-half (50%) ofthe requirements of the underlying districts. The additional purpose of the New Boston Village District is to retain the village scale ofbuildings. Within the New Boston Village District no new building may be erected which has a larger gross building area than the Dodge's Store building. Pursuant to RSA 675:4,111, the New Boston Planning Board states its recommendation: that it is notin favorofthe petition to amend theZoning Ordinance as proposed. Article 3. Are you in favor of the adoption of an Amendment as proposed by petition for the Town ofNew Boston Zoning Ordinance, as follows: To amend the Zoning Ordinance to add "residential" as a permitted use in the commercial zone. Pursuant to RSA 675:4,111, the New Boston Planning Board states its recommendation: that it is not in favorofthe petition to amend theZoning Ordinance as proposed. 8