Annual Report of the Officers of the Town of Holderness, N.H. Year
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NHarrp 352.07 •y of New Hampshire H72 (. H. 03824 1974 Annual Report HOLDERNESS NEW HAMPSHIRE YEAR ENDING c3 oo December 31, 7974 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OFFICERS OFTHE Town of Holderness, N.H. YEAR ENDING December 31, 1974 MOUNTAIN MEDIA, INC. PLYMOUTH, N.H. University of New Hampshire Library 352.67 mi INDEX Results of 1 974 Town Meeting 4 Warrant 7 Budget 9 Detailed Statement of Payments 12 Fire Department Report 19 Library Report 21 Conservation Commission Report 22 Planning Board Report 24 Town Hall Bldg. Comm. Report 28 Health Officers' Report . 29 Pemi-Baker Health Agency Report 30 Park Board Report 31 Vital Statistics 32 State Audit Report 37 PROCEDURE OF THE HOLDERNESS TOWN MEETING - MARCH 5, 1974 At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Holderness, qualified to vote in Town affairs, and held in the Town House of said Holderness, March 5, 1974, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon the following business was transacted. The sealed ballot boxes for the Town, the School, and the Constitutional Convention were delivered to the Moderator, Mr. Laurence Roberts, by the Town Clerk. They were opened by the Moderator and the ballots were counted by clerks under his supervision and that of the Town Clerk. At 10.14 A.M. the Moderator called the meeting to order and read the articles of the warrant. The polls were declared open at 10.19 A.M. and were closed at 6:00 P.M. All ballots were counted by the ballot clerks with the following results: Total Ballots cast: 372 Names on checklist: 714 For the Town Town Clerk — Gertrude L. Eisner Town Treasurer — Joseph Carvelli Selectman for 3 years^— Charles L. Currier Tax Collector — Bernice Shields Library Trustee for 3 years — Evangeline W. Dana Overseer of Town Welfare — Laura M. Heath Superintendent of Cemeteries — Lyle Thompson Trustee of Trust Funds for 3 years — Charles J. Ayer II Fire Wards — James L. Cripps, George S. Richards, Paul E. Whitman Constable — Lyle Thompson For the School Moderator — Laurence H. Roberts Jr. Clerk — Ann L. Noyes Treasurer — Joseph A. Carvelli Member of School Board for 3 years — Edward Wentzell DELEGATE TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION Malcohn Taylor HI The opening of the Town Meeting was delayed 15 minutes to permit completion of ballot counting. At 7:45 P.M. Mr Roberts opened the meeting and read the entire warrant. Then, under Article 1 he read the results of the balloting for town, school of- ficials and for delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Article 2. to accept reports of town officers. Vote in the affirmative. Article 3. to raise and appropriate $100 for the New Hampshire Humane Society Vote was in the affirmative. Article 4. To raise and appropriate $500 for the Sceva Speare Memorial Hospital. Vote in the affirmative. Article 5. To raise and appropriate $1,000 for the Pemi-Baker Home Health Agency. Amended by Mrs. Wolf to read $1,048.00. Amended article was voted in the affirmative. Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Clerk to add names to the check list and present them to the Supervisors of the check List. Vote by show of hands. Motion defeated. Article 7. To see if the Town would accept a gift of land from the Science Center. Moved to table until Article 9 was heard. Vote to table article was in the affirmative. Article 8. To see if the Town would appropriate $16,000 for a new town truck and sander and to make alterations to the existing truck to enable the Town to plow snow on all town roads. Article amended to read: To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $16,000 for the purchase of a new town truck and sander, and to make alterations to the existing truck to enable the Town to plow snow on all Town roads, said sum to be paid as far as possible out of ftmds received or to be received by the Town from the Federal Revenue Sharing Trust Fund under the State and local Assistance Act of 1972. Vote by show of hands was in the affirmative. Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $18,000 for necessary repairs and improvements to preserve the old Town Hall, said sum to be raised by borrowing on the credit of the town through the issuance of a note or notes of the Town under the Municipal Finance Act RSA 33.8. Amended as follows: To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $40,000 for necessary repairs and improvements, including offices, in and to preserve the old Town Hall, $9,000 of said sum to be from the Capital Reserve . Fund established at the 1973 Town meeting with Federal Revenue Sharing Trust Funds received under the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972, and the balance of said sum to be raised by borrowing on the credit of the Town through the issuance of a note or notes of the Town under the Municipal Finance Act, RSA 33.8, provided that said sum shall be expended by the Selectmen only after a five man building committee, appointed within 10 days of the date of the adoption of this Article, shall have conducted such studies as they deem proper, shall have prepared detailed plans for said repairs and improvements, shall have held two public hearings of which notice is posted and published and shall have considered all suggestions made at said hearings before said plans are submitted to the Selectmen for the letting of a contract. Vote was by written ballot. Vote was in the affirmative. The meeting then returned to Article 7. Vote to table indefinitely was in the af- firmative. Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate $1900 for renovation of the Town Library. Vote in the affirmative. Article 11. To see*if the Selectmen may accept for the Town such financial aid as the Town is or may be entitled to receive from the Federal Disaster Assistance Ad- ministration was voted in the affirmative. Article 12. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer to transfer to the Town Conservation Trust Fund the unexpended balance of funds appropriated for the Conservation Commission in 1974. Vote in the affirmative. Article 13. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to investigate a program to provide a Town tax map, such program to be presented to the voters for approval. Vote in the affirmative. Article 14. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to borrow in anticipation of taxes. Vote in the affirmative. Article 15. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to dispose of real estate acquired by the Town by Tax Collector's fee. Vote in the affirmative. Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to make any alterations in the amount of money to be raised and appropriated for the support of the Town as recommended by the Budget committee. Amended by Police Chief Frizzell to add $3500 to the Police Dept. in addition to the $20,000 recommended. Amendment seconded by Mr. Frank Webster. At this point a motion was made by Mr. Harrison, selectman, to recess the meeting. Motion seconded. Moderator declared a recess. Date of continuance to Town meeting deter- mined to be March 12, 1974. March 12, 1974 The Moderator opened the meeting at 7:30 in the afternoon in the Town Hall. He read amended Article 16. Vote on amended article was by ballot. Vote in the affirmative. Article 17. Dr Staples offered a vote of thanks to Mr. Malcolm Taylor for his service to the town as Selectman. Mrs. Taylor moved a vote of thanks to Richard Gordon for his 19 years as Town Treasurer. Mr. Webster commended Dr. Staples for his work on the Planning Board. Mr. Flint suggested a letter of thanks to the Science Center. Mr. Frizzell suggested a moment of silence for George Plant, and a hand for Mr. Keeney for his service as part time patrolman. Meeting was then adjourned. A True Record: Attest GERTRUDE L. ELSNER Town Clerk THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE To the Inhabitants of the Town of Holderness in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire quaHfied to vote in Town affairs: You are hereby notified to meet at the Town House in said Holderness on Tuesday, the fourth of March, next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at which time the polls shall be opened . and shall close not earlier than six o'clock in the afternoon, to act upon the following subjects, the second and subsequent articles to be acted upon commencing at seven-thirty o'clock in the afternoon of the same day: Article 1: To choose all necessary town officers. Article 2: To accept the reports of all town officers. Article 3: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $100.00 for the support of The New Hampshire Humane Society. Article 4: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 for the support of the Sceva Speare Memorial Hospital. Article 5: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,175.00 for the support of the Pemi-Baker Home Health Agency. Article 6: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 for the Town Health Fund.