Haverhill reverts to 2020 $4.14M operating budget
Modified: 3/16/2021 9:56:03 PM
HAVERHILL The Selectboard has opted to revert to the $4.14 million budget Haverhill operated under in 2020 rather than hold another Town Meeting vote for the proposed $4.6 million spending plan.
The decision was made Monday night after voters in Australian ballot voting on Saturday rejected the optional Town Meeting procedures Haverhill was following during the COVID-19 state of emergency.
Town Manager Brigitte Codling said via email that the Selectboard “voted to revert to last year’s operating budget (no warrant articles) and voted on transfers of allocations between budget lines per our recommendations to ensure continuity of Town operations.
Haverhill budget’s fate uncertain after vote
Modified: 3/15/2021 10:08:46 PM
HAVERHILL Residents at Town Meeting over the weekend ousted the Selectboard chairman and voted against approving the optional meeting procedures Haverhill was following during the COVID-19 state of emergency, creating major budget uncertainty.
In Australian ballot voting on Saturday, Michael Graham defeated Haverhill Selectboard Chairman Darwin Clogston, 514-186.
And warrant Article 2, whose passage was needed to consider more than 30 other articles, was rejected on a 409-264 vote.
Graham, who served on the Selectboard several years ago and runs a family-owned Woodsville insurance agency, said he was running on a platform of “healing Haverhill,” which has been bitterly divided over a plan to create a town fire department and merge the independent district departments into it.
VP Harris, inaugural poet Gorman inspire in the Upper Valley
Grace McKinnon, 9, and her mother Whitney Carroll McKinnon, of Bradford, Vt., at their home on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Together, they watched highlights of the inauguration on Wednesday after Grace got home from school and were particularly moved watching Vice President Kamala Harris take the oath of office. ( Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Youth filmmaker Ezra McGinley-Smith at his home in Norwich, Vt., on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. McGinley-Smith was inspired by inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and hopes her success will encourage adults to include more young people in important events. ( Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.