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Annual Report of the City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire 1969 Rjfhm? >m m or, what's a heaven for? Citu of Portsmoutli, New Hoeipslhirie CITY HALL - - 126 DANIEL STREET May 29, 1970 To our Citizens: An Annual Report should not merely be considered or so designed as to represent merely an accumulation of graphs and numerical sequences which represent various allocations of monies and time. Certainly our achievements and failures to ful- fill our community's goals are not well reflected in such an impersonal manner. Therefore, while the development and issuance of such reports is a legal requisite, we attempt each year and according to the help we receive, to make the report more meaningful and more interesting. We are presently in a period of administrative transition; however, the splendid efforts of our two former City Managers are reflected within the following text and photographs. We are especially grateful for the help we have received throughout the year from our many civic organizations, to the news media and especially to the citizens of the community who continue their interest in our efforts. /-> Sincerely, EF/lcz Eileen Foley, Mayor A City of the Open Door "ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or, what's a heaven for?" Annual Report ofthe City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire 1969 TABLE OF CONTENTS Year End Review 2 Plans, Problems & Needs for 1970 4 Mayor and Council 5 City Management Code of Ethics 7 City Comptroller 8 City Treasurer 10 Parking Meters 11 Tax Collector 12 City Assessor 13 City Clerk 15 City Solicitor 16 District Court and Probation Officer 17 Planning 19 Economic Development 20 Police Department 22 Fire Department 24 Animal Control 25 Building Inspection 26 Electrical Inspection 27 Housing Code Inspection 27 Weights and Measures 30 Plumbing Inspection 30 Public Works 32 Health Officer 35 Department of Welfare 35 Public Education 37 Library 40 Recreation 41 Water 44 Financial Exhibits 46 Per Capita Costs 53 Boards and Commissions 55 Index 56 Directory Inside Back Cover CREDITS Cover Quote - From Robert Browning's. Andrea DelSarto Compiled and Edited by Richard J. Bowen, Albert C. Wennberg, and Melanie Worrell Photographs by Douglas Armsden, Peter Randall, G.W. Patch, The Portsmouth Herald, Pease Air Force Base, United States Navy Printed by Town Printing Year End Review Council Activities 19 6 9 * DECLARED a period of mourning to commerate the * ACCEPTED resignation of Councilman John E. Splaine, death of Robert C. Violette, City Manager from 1952 Jr.; replaced by William A. Thompson, Jr. to 1969. * ADOPTED Resolution ^:10, appointing Richard J. * VOTED to adopt Resolution # 1 -A Bond Issue of Bowen as City Manager. construction of sewer facilities in $1,000,000 for * PUBLIC hearing on Resolution #8, $100,000. Bond Gosling Meadows, Maple Haven, Lafayette Road and Issue for Public Works and Fire Department equip- Banfield areas. Road ment of lasting nature was passed. * to approving applica- VOTED adopt Resolution #2, * PUBLIC hearing on Ordinance creating new positions tion for preliminary loan for low-rent public housing in Fire Department; third deputy chief, captain and Agree- and amendment to Consolidated Cooperation lieutenant. ment. * RESOLUTION #12 adopted, stating all utility lines * to adopt Resolution appointing Arthur VOTED #3, in Urban Renewal area Project UR-10 be underground. Castelazo Acting City Manager. * COUNCIL voted to adopt City Manager's recommen- * CATV agreement set up by CATV Committee. dation regarding incinerator, which stated present users of the city incinerator be alowed to continue * ADOPTED Resolution #6, recertifying the Workable Program. to use the facility for an additional year and outside users be charged 80^' per cubic yard of material * Hearing Recodification of Ordanances. PUBLIC on actually disposed in the incinerator. (Adopted as amended). * PASSED Resolution stating Council favors principal * APPOINTED committee to assist Portsmouth Housing of rehabilitation in Vaughn Street Urban Renewal Authority in selection of site for 75 unit large-family area to preserve houses when they are architecturally low-income housing development. and historically significant. * MEETING with area towns to discuss dump problem. * CITY Council voted that the Charter Commission pre- pare a Charter that conforms to Home Rule Statutes * COUNCILMEN reported application had been made of New Hampshire and submit it to a referendum to State and Federal Governments for a traffic study on November 4, 1969. of Urban Renewal area. * COUNCIL authorized City Manager the use of * PUBLIC hearing on Resolution #7, authorizing Bond $25,000 from 1966 Public Improvement Bond Issue of $750,000 for permanent public improve- Issue (unused funds) to start renovation of City Hall. ments. * COUNCIL was notified concerning Public Utilities 1 - Marcy-Washington Urban Renewal Project. Commission approvel of City's increased water rates 2 - Vaughn Street Project N.H. R-10 to be effective September 1, 1969. 3 - Street improvements for Code Enforcement. * PUBLIC hearing on Ordinance stating all appointments Boards the with the 4 - City contribution to Traffic and Parking Survey to City be made by Mayor under Section 701 of the United States Housing approval of the Council was passed. Act of 1954, as amended to date. * PUBLIC hearing on Resolution 2pl3, Supplemental for Police Department 5 - Neighborhood development planning. Appropriation of $11,500 was adopted. * PUBLIC hearing on Ordinance requiring Rental Permits. * PUBLIC hearing on Ordinance establishing Conserva- * THIRD reading of the Certificate of Occupancy passed. tion Commission was passed. (Any person maintaining a residential unit to be * PUBLIC hearing on Ordinance to amend Administra- let to another must obtain a certificate of occupancy tive Code concerning the Department of Inspection from the Housing Code Inspector. The Housing Code was passed. Inspector shall be satisfied that residence must con- * ORDINANCE on Street Trees passed second and third form to Housing Code Requirements. Permit fee reading. $1.00 per dwelling unit. * RECONSTRUCTION and amending of Resolution #7, reading Taxi passed, creating 8 * THIRD of Ordinance reallocation of funds for traffic studies, TOPIC Pro- taxi stands on Congress Street, 4 infront of easterly gram was adopted. bus stop and 4 infront of westerly stop. + APPOINTMENT of a Community Goals Study Com- * PUBLIC hearing on proposed new City Charter. (Pro- mittee. posed Charter presented by Charter Commission * ADOPTED Resolution irl5-A, disallowed tax dis- City appointed by Council February, 1968.) count in 1969. * PRESENTATION by Portmouth Preservation, Inc. (Pro- * LETTER accepted from State Tax Commission informing posal to preserve historical architecturally significant Council that they were discontinuing annual municipal homes in the Vaughn Street Urban Renewal area.) audit. Year End Review * VOTED to have special election in conjunction with Council were: Municipal Election in November to fill vacant seats Eileen Foley, Mayor; William A. Thompson, Jr., to General Court in Ward III and IV. Assistant Mayor; Paul McEachern; Richard Blalock; Richard Chaisson; Ed- * VOTED to adopt Civil Defense Emergency Operating James Splaine; Richard Levy; Plan as presented. mund Scarponi and Wiliam Keefe. * VOTED to adopt new schedule of fees for the use of * ELECTED to the Board of Education for the term facilities located at the JFK Center. 1970 through 1971 were: Rubin Jaffe; Alice Lee; * VOTED to put the following four proposed changes Americo J. Bellucci; John F. Sullivan; Charles F. in present Charter on Referendum at November Halle and Sandra W. Storz. 4 election: * SIX Referendum questions were also decided: 1 - Shall the Police Chief be appointed by the Question #1 Shall the Police Chief be appointed City Manager? by the City Manager? Vote - No. 2 - Would require School Board members and Question #2 Would require School Board mem- City Councilmen to be qualified voters and to bers and City Councilmen to be qualified voters reside in the City at least two years prior to and to reside in the City at least two years election and no such elected official shall hold prior to election and no such elected official any other municipal office. shall hold any other municipal office. Vote - YES 3 - Shall the City Charter be amended to provide Question #3 Shall the City Charter be amended that salaries of Councilmen be established by to provide that salaries of Councilmen be estab- ordinance rather than State Law? lished by ordinance rather that State Law? 4 - Shall the City Charter Provisions pertaining to Vote - NO Municipal Finance as recommended by the Char- Question #4 Shall the City Charter Provisions ter Commission be adopted? pertaining to Municipal Finance as recommended * hearing on Ordinance to refer Capital Im- PUBLIC by the Charter Commission be adopted? provements to Planning Board was passed. Vote - YES * PUBLIC hearing on Resolution #15, Bond Issue of Question #5 Shall it be lawful for all retail $800,000 for the construction of sewer facilities businesses in the City of Portmouth to remain was passed. open on the Lord's Day after one o'clock? * PUBLIC hearing on Ordinance authorizing Sunday Vote - YES Sales was passed. Question #6 Shall the provision of an act entit- * PUBLIC hearing on Resolution #17 authorizing led "An Act relative to the hourly wages of transfer of $26,401 from Revenue Surplus for certain officers in the City of Portsmouth" snow removal was adopted. passed at the 1969 session of the legislature be adopted? Vote - YES * PUBLIC hearing on Ordinance to rezone land off Lafayette Road (Tamposi) was passed. * VOTED to lease Haven School to the Community Action Program. + COUNCIL voted to approve a pilot program for plas- * voted to in following Resolutions: tic refuse bags. COUNCIL amend * A report from the Committee on Accounting Practices Reduce term of Bond Resolution #7, $750,000 for was accepted. permanent improvements from 20 years to 10 years. * SIGN Ordinance passed the third reading. Reduce term of Bond Resolution #15, $800,000 for * PUBLIC hearing on Resolution #18, appropriating construction of sewers from 20 years to 10 years.
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