Town Meeting preview: Tunbridge eyeing dip in tax rate, town garage expansion
Published: 5/19/2021 11:27:34 PM
Modified: 5/19/2021 11:52:26 PM
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Budget: Voters at Tunbridge’s Town Meeting on Saturday are being asked to approve a $611,504 general fund budget and $961,140 for the highway fund. All told, that’s about $35,000 less than passed in fiscal year 2021, and could result in a 1-cent-per-$100-of-valuation drop in the town tax rate, or a $25 savings on a home assessed at $250,000.
But though it’s not on the warning this year, town officials are giving residents a “heads-up” that they may expand the Town Garage at some point so more heavy equipment, which has sophisticated electronics, can be stored inside.
Town Meeting preview: First Branch Unified District’s budget plan dips as cost per pupil grows
Published: 5/19/2021 11:26:51 PM
Modified: 5/19/2021 11:29:02 PM
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Hot topic: The warning for the First Branch Unified District’s annual meeting contains only seven articles, all of them straightforward. The budget will draw the most attention, as residents of Chelsea and Tunbridge, the district’s two towns, twice voted down budgets last year before finally approving a spending plan in October, well after the school year had begun.
Budget: The proposed budget of $6.85 million is $41,000 lower than the current school year’s spending plan, but because enrollment is projected to decline slightly, the district’s cost per equalized pupil, a measure that determines its tax rate, is projected to increase by 4.3%. The education tax rates will increase more modestly, by about 2.5 cents per $100 of assessed value in Tunbridge, and by a little less than 3 cents per $100 in
Published: 5/17/2021 4:15:59 PM
Peterborough is holding a recount after one Planning Board candidate won by just one vote in last week’s election.
Although Stephanie Hurley easily won the first of two open three-year positions on the Planning Board with 808 votes, incumbent Sarah Steinberg Heller won the second seat with 502 votes: just one more vote than runner-up Blair Weiss’s 501. Weiss requested the recount late last week after the town’s May 11 vote, Town Clerk Linda Guyette said.
The recount will cover votes for all six candidates for the two three-year positions, Guyette said: Hurley, Steinberg Heller, and Weiss, along with Lisa Stone, Christopher DiLoreto, and Lindsay Dreyer, who received 407, 317, and 350 votes, respectively.
Town Meeting: Lyme opts to keep public access for Old River Road
Lyme, N.H., resident Inger Imset listens during Town Meeting, held on the Lyme Common on Saturday, May 15, 2021. Ballot clerks Marya Klee, left, and Kris Pekala check voters in for the meeting. ( Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Lynn McRea, of Lyme, N.H., asks a question during Town Meeting, held on the Lyme Common on Saturday, May 15, 2021. Sitting beside her is her husband, Michael Whitman, who was this year s Lyme citizen of the year recipient. ( Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Hot topic: Voters in Corinth will be asked to approve spending $791,800 for the Highway Fund, which is the same as the previous year and for which $573,000 would be raised by taxes. In addition, they will be asked for $123,100, of which $103,100 will.