Annual Report of the Town of Rindge, New Hampshire
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tamp 352.07 »57 1968 ANNUAL REPORTS and Inventory of Polls and Ratable Property OF THE TOWN OF RINDGE, N. H for the year ending December 31, 1968 AND SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICERS for the year ending June 30, 1968 Please bring this copy of town reports to Town Meeting and School Meeting University of TlewHampshire library ANNUAL REPORTS of the TOWN OFFICERS of RINDGE, N. H. for the year ended December 31, 1968 Adams Printinc. Corp I KMi'i y ion. Mass. Nrt q ANNUAL REPORT INDEX List of Town Officers Town Warrant for Current Year 6 Abstract of Business Transacted Town Meeting, March 1968 10 Budget 19 Summary Inventory of Valuation 2 1 Appropriations and Taxes 2 2 Comparison of Appropriations & Expenditures 24 F inane ial Report 2 6 Town Auditor's Report 3 Schedule of Town Property 3 Report of Town Clerk 3 1 Report of Overseer of Publ ic Welfare 3 1 Report of Tax Col lector 3 2 Report of Town Treasurer 3 9 Report of Selectmen 42 Report of Highway Agent 4 9 Report of Pol ice Department 5 4 Report of History Committee 5 5 Report of F ire Department 5 5 Report of Fire Warden 5 6 Report of Trustees of Trust Funds 5 7 Summary of Trust Funds 6 4 Report of Libraries 6 6 Report of School District 7 Vital Statistics 98 Report of Rindge Bicentennial 1 04 Report of Rindge Public Beach Committee 110 Tax and Valuation On Colored Paper Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/annualreportofto1968rind . ANNUAL REPORT T OWN OFFICERS MODERATOR James F . Al ten TOWN CLERK AND TREASURER Roland C. Goddard SELECTMEN AND ASSESSORS Harold E. Savage Charles W. Nichols William H. Stoddard TAX COLLECTOR Florence E. Stebbins OVERSEER OF PUBLIC WELFARE Florence E . Stebbins SUPERVISORS OF THE CHECK LIST Elsie M. Chase Carrie S. Gray May F . Thrasher AUDITORS Walter A. Cleveland Ralph L. Hoyt, Jr. FIRE WARDENS Richard A. Ford Ralph L. Hoyt, Jr. Walter J . Young HEALTH OFFICER Bruce Herron LIBRARIAN Carrie S . Gray HIGHWAY AGENT John B . Crosby Jr CONSTABLES Ernest L. Goodall, Chief Leslie G. Coffin, Jr. Donald A. Donaway LIBRARY TRUSTEES Elizabeth S. Pangborn Margaret S. Brummer Edwin B. Klein Mildred T. Semonite Verne L. Patenaude John M. Phillips TRUSTEES OF THE TRUST FUNDS Roland C. Goddard, Jr. James F. Allen Russell E. White REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GENERAL COURT Jomes F . Allen . ANNUAL REPORT THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN WARRANT To the inhabitants of the Town of Rindge, in the County of Cheshire, State of New Hampshire, qualified to vote in Town affairs: You are hereby notified to meet at the Rindge Memorial School Auditorium in Rindge Center in said Town of Rindge on Tuesday, the eleventh day of March next, at nine of the clock in the forenoon, to act upon the following subjects: To choose all necessary Town Officers and School District Officers for the year ensuing Polls will remain open until six of the clock in the afternoon. The business meeting will be called to order at seven of the clock in the afternoon to act upon the following subjects: ARTICLE 1 : To hear and act upon the reports of the Selectmen and Town Treasurer, Town Clerk, Overseer of Public Welfare, and reports of all agents, Committees and Officers heretofore chosen and act in any way relating thereto. ARTICLE 2 : To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray Town charges for the ensuing year and make appropriations of the same. ARTICLE 3: To see if the Voters will authorize the Selectmen and Town Treasurer to borrow money in anticipation of the collection of taxes for the current year, and to issue in the name of the Town negotiable notes therefor, said notes to be repaid during the current year from taxes collected within the current year. ARTICLE 4: To see what method the Town will adopt to collect taxes. ARTICLE 5 : To see what action the Town wishes to take regarding overdrafts and unexpended balances. ARTICLE 6: To see if the Town will vote to increase the following fees, or take any action relating thereto Sunday Permits From $1 to $5 License to Sell Pistols and Revolvers From $2 to $1 ARTICLE 7: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of $2 ,0 00 to be added to the Capital Reserve Fund for the purpose of replacing a Highway Department truck. ARTICLE 8 : To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of $1 ,000 to be added to the Capital Reserve Fund for the purpose of replacing a Fire Depart- ment truck . ANNUAL REPORT ARTICLE 9 : To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen and Fire Wards of the Town to purchase a new fire truck, said truck to have tank, 1 00 gal . per minute pump, hose and equipment ready to fight fire, said truck and equipment to meet Fire Underwriters' approval and to raise and appropriate a sum not to exceed $35 ,0 00 - $5 ,00 to be taken from the Trust Fund set up for this purpose and $3,000 appropriated this year, and that the Selectmen be authorized to issue term notes in the sum of $3 ,0 00 each for the balance, one of said notes to be redeemed each year for the next nine years, or take any other action relating thereto. ARTICLE 10: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for test drilling on potential dump sites to establish a land-fill operation for dumping as required by statute, or take any other action relating thereto. ARTICLE 1 1 : To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of $3,300 for the purchase of a Swenson Sander for use by the Highway Department, or take any other action relating thereto. ARTICLE 12: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5 ,00 for the purpose of widening and improving that portion of the Mountain Road leading down to a new parking area at Franklin Pierce College, or take any other action relating thereto. ARTICLE 1 3 : To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of $4 ,000 for crushing gravel to be used on new construction, or take any other action relating thereto ARTICLE 14: To see if the Town will vote to remove snow from the entrance to all private driveways that have been filled in as a result of widening the road by plows. ARTICLE 15: To see if the Town will vote to close that section of road, approxi- mately 1 feet in length, which connects Hampshire Road to Beaver Dam Road subject to gates and bars, or take any other action relating thereto. ARTICLE 16: To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Class V road the existing private surfaced road beginning from the Wellington Road opposite the Danforth RoaJ to an existing culvert, a distance of approximately 450 feet, or take any other action relating thereto, (by petition) ARTICLE 17: To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Class V road that part of the Whippie Road, so called, from the portion already blacktopped to Perry Comer and then continuing along North Road, so called, to the outskirts of East Rindge Vil- lage, and to raise and appropriate a sum of money sufficient to rebuild this section of road to conform with Class V road standards, or take any other action relating thereto, (by petition) ARTICLE 18: To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Moderator to appoint a committee of not less than three nor more than five persons, two of whom shall be Lake Monomonock residents, one to be a Selectman, and the balance to be interested and qualified residents to look into the situation regarding the dams at the foot of Lake Monomonock and the current low water level of the Lake and take such action as is necessary to protect the property value interests and welfare of the property owners around and adjacent to the Lake and the Town of Rindge generally, and to 8 ANNUAL REPORT raise and appropriate the sum of $5 00 to meet the expenses of the Committee which shall report results of their efforts at the next Annual Town Meeting. ARTICLE 1 9 : To see if the Town will vote to empower the Selectmen to secure, by deposit of not over $1 ,000 to be raised through taxes, any beach property that might become available, the purchase of which shall be voted upon at the next Annual Town Meeting, or take any other action relating thereto. ARTICLE 20 : To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee of seven members to investigate the feasibility of establishing a Town water supply for the three villages, the sum of $1 00 to be raised and appropriated for expenses of this com- mittee, this committee to report not iater than the next Annual Town Meeting, or take any other action relating thereto, (by petition) ARTICLE 2 1 : To see if the Town will vote to pay the members of the Board of Ad- justment an hourly fee for their services on the same basis as other Town officials, or take any other action relating thereto. ARTICLE 22 : To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $40 .5 to install a street light at the junction of the Wellington Road and Swan Point Road, so called, or take any other action relating thereto.