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P Town Annual Report of the Gilford New Hampshire Year Ending December 31 2009 , Printed by the Country Press, Inc. www.countrypressinc.com Photo: Pot of Gold, Lake Winnipesaukee Taken from Lockes Island July photo from the 2010 Gilford Library Calendar Courtesy of and © Connie Moses 2010 Annual Reports of the town of GILFORD New Hampshire for the year ending December 31, 2009 LP Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Boston Library Consortium IVIember Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/annualreporttown2009gilf TABLE OF CONTENTS ITEMS FOR ACTION AT THE 2009 ANNUAL MEETING Town Warrant See Blue Town Budget Section School Warrant In Back of School Budget Book Town Officials as of December 31 2009 5 , Town Department Locations and Contact Directory 10 ACTIVITY REPORTS OF OFFICERS, OFFICIALS, BOARDS, COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS Report of the Board of Selectmen 12 Report of the Town Administrator 13 Report of the Town Appraiser 14 Report of the Town Clerk-Tax Collector 22 Report of the Department of Planning and Land Use 24 Report of the Lakes Region Planning Commission 28 Report ofthe Belknap Range Conservation Coalition 32 Report ofthe Police Department 33 Report of the Department of Public Works 35 Report ofthe Fire-Rescue Department 37 Report of the Forest Fire Warden and State Forest Ranger 40 Report of the Parks and Recreation Department 42 Report of the Old Home Day Committee 46 Report of the Cemetery Trustees 48 Report of the Library Director and Library Trustees 50 Report ofthe Overseer of Public Welfare 53 Report of the Task Force on Drug/Alcohol Abuse Prevention 54 Report of the Land Conservation Task Force 56 Report of the Kimball Wildlife Forest Committee 57 Report of the Energy Committee 58 Report on the February 4, 2009 Deliberative Session 59 Report on the March 10, 2009 "Second Session" Election Results 78 Report ofthe Gunstock Acres Village Water District 92 2009 FINANCIAL RECORDS 93 Certificate Revenue Summary 94 Expenditure Summary 96 Summary Inventory of Valuation 98 2009 Tax Rate Computation 99 Tax Collector's Report 100 Summary of Tax Lien Account 102 Town Clerk's Report 103 Treasurer's Report 104 Report of the Trustees of Trust Funds 105 Independent Auditor's Report 106 Statement of Bonded Debt 115 Schedule of Town Property 116 Vital Statistics 119 Vendor Payments Report 126 Employee Wages and Benefits Report 137 SCHOOL DISTRICT REPORTS Officers of the School District S2 Report on the February 3, 2009 Deliberative Session S3 Report on the March 10, 2009 "Second Session" Election Results S11 Report of the School Board Chairperson S15 Report of the Elementary School Principal S18 Report ofthe Middle School Principal S20 Report of the High School Principal S21 School Statistics S25 Financial Report on the School District S26 Vendor History Report S29 Payroll Report S45 Telephone Directory Back Cover L 1 TOWN OFFICIALS (as of December 31, 2009) ELECTED TOWN OFFICIALS BOARD OF SELECTMEN Gus Benavides, Chair Term Expires 2010 J. Kevin Hayes Term Expires 2011 JohnT. O'Brien Term Expires 2012 TOWN CLERK TAX COLLECTOR - DeniseA. Morrissette Term Expires 201 TREASURER Karen Saunders Term Expires 2011 MODERATOR PeterV. Millham Term Expires 2011 SUPERVISORS OF THE CHECKLIST Connie IVIoses, Chair Term Expires 2010 Diane IVlitton Term Expires 2010 Nancy IVIarcoux Term Expires 2014 TRUSTEES OF TRUST FUNDS Peter(Rick) Moses Term Expires2010 Wayne Snow Term Expires 2011 Leo Sanfacon Term Expires 2012 LIBRARYTRUSTEES Pauline (Polly) J. Sanfacon, Chair Term Expires2010 Tracey G. Petrozzi Term Expires2010 Weldon Bosworth Term Expires 2011 Robert Kammeraad Term Expires 2012 John (Jack) P. Lacombe Term Expires 2012 CEMETERYTRUSTEES Susan Leach, Chair Term Expires 2012 Judith Cott Term Expires 2010 Doris (Dee) Chitty Term Expires2011 111 BUDGET COMMITTEE Richard C. Hickok, Chair Term Expires 2012 IVlark Corry Term Expires 2010 TerryStewart Term Expires 201 Kevin Roy Term Expires 201 Susan C. Greene Term Expires 2011 Dale Dormody Term Expires 2010 David (Skip) Murphy Term Expires 2012 Phyllis Corrigan Term Expires 2012 John T. O'Brien, Selectman Representative MargoWeeks, School Board Representative Fred Butler, GunstockAcresVillageWater District Representative BOARD OF FIRE ENGINEERS William R. Akerley, Chair Term Expires 2012 PhilipA. Brouillard Term Expires 2010 Don Spear Term Expires 2011 GUNSTOCKACRES VILLAGEWATER DISTRICTTRUSTEES Robert Dion, Moderator&Treasurer Susan Dalton, Clerk Robert Dalton, Commissioner A! Herte, Commissioner Howard Epstein, Commissioner APPOINTED TOWN OFFICIALS CONSERVATION COMMISSION John Goodhue, Chair Term Expires 2012 Douglas Hill Term Expires 2010 Lee Duncan Term Expires 2010 Thomas Drouin Term Expires 2011 Lawrence Routhier Term Expires 2011 Charles Coons Term Expires 2011 Everett McLaughlin Term Expires 2012 Paula McDonald, Alternate Term Expires 2010 Rudolph Lehr, Alternate Term Expires 2011 Donald Sibson, Alternate Term Expires 201 Carole Hall, Alternate Term Expires 2012 Terry Stewart, Alternate Term Expires 2012 1 m •^ PLANNING BOARD Pauline(Polly) J. Sanfacon, Chair Term Expires 2010 John Morgenstern Term Expires 2012 Jerry Gagnon Term Expires 201 Richard Vaillancourt Term Expires 2010 Richard Sonia Term Expires 2011 RichardWaitt Term Expires 2012 David Arnst, Alternate Term Expires 2010 Carolyn Scattergood, Alternate Term Expires 2012 Wayne Hall, Alternate Term Expires 2012 Andrew Garfinkle, Alternate Term Expires 2012 Dennis Corrigan, Alternate Term Expires 2012 J. Kevin Hayes, Selectman Representative RECREATION COMMISSION Thomas Francoeur, Chair Term Expires 2010 Miham York Term Expires 2010 David Smith Term Expires 2011 Richard Nelson Term Expires 2012 Lisa Manz-Buckley Term Expires 2012 Leo Sanfacon, Alternate Term Expires 2012 VickieCamer, Alternate Term Expires 2012 Sue King, Alternate Tenn Expires 2012 ZONING BOARDOF ADJUSTMENT Andrew Howe, Chair Term Expires 2011 J. Scott Davis Term Expires 2012 Robert Dion Term Expires 2012 Charles Boucher Tenm Expires 2010 Ellen Mulligan Term Expires 2012 ConnieGrant, Alternate Temi Expires 2012 Mark Corry, Alternate Term Expires 2012 HISTORIC DISTRICT- HERITAGE COMMISSION TroySchrupp, Chair Term Expires 2011 Julianne McConnell Term Expires 201 Carmel Lancia Term Expires 2010 Mary Curtis Term Expires 2012 Carole Hopper, Alternate Term Expires 2012 Gus Benavides, Selectman Representative RichardWaitt, Planning Board Representative FACILITY PLANNING COMMITTEE James Mull, Chair Edward (Bill) Rohr Andrew Howe Dale Channing (Chan) Eddy Steven Grant Dennis Doten J. Kevin Hayes, Selectman Representative LAKES BUSINESS PARK BOARD OF DIRECTORS RodneyDyer Anthony Ferruolo Leo Sanfacon ENERGY COMMITTEE Howard Epstein, Chair Dale Channing (Chan) Eddy William Knightly INSPECTOR OF ELECTIONS Evelyn Bray Term Expires 2010 Donna Mooney Term Expires 2010 Barbara Carey Term Expires 2010 Diane Tinkham Term Expires 2010 Doris MacHaffie, Alternate Term Expires 2010 Claire Stinson, Alternate Term Expires 2010 LAND CONSERVATION TASK FORCE Everett McLaughlin, Chair Sandra T. McGonagle, Secretary Russell Dumais Diane Hanley Douglas Hill Stephan Nix John (Jack)Woodward LAKES REGION PLANNING COMMISSION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Scott Dunn RichardWaitt