City of Newport Vermont 2017 Annual Report
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City of Newport Vermont 1916 Memphremagog Hose Company Current Newport City Fire Department 2017 Annual Report A review of fiscal year 2016-2017 including the proposed budgets, appropriations and articles to be voted on at the City Meeting March 6, 2018 Celebrating Accomplishments Inspired Yoga Pomerleau Park Monument Dedication Pride Fitness Andrew Carbine & Ryan Abel Recognized for Heroic Efforts NEK Counseling & Consultation Annual City & School Report CITY OF NEWPORT, VERMONT FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2017 Printed by MEMPHREMAGOG PRESS, INC., Newport, Vermont “Deaths” Community Minded Citizens, Faithful Servants, Fondly Remembered by a Grateful Community, Family and Friends In memory of Reynold Choiniere January 24, 1929 - December 21, 2017 Mayor 1999 - 2003 Justice of the Peace 1978 - 2007 Town Service Officer 1982 - 1998 INDEX CITY City Budget (Expenses) ......................................................................................... 16-30 City Budget (Revenues) ........................................................................................ 13-16 City Budget Recap ................................................................................................ 12 City Government .................................................................................................... 4 City Manager’s Message ...................................................................................... 9-11 City Treasurer and Clerk Reports .......................................................................... 36-39 City Warning .......................................................................................................... 1-3 Fire Department Report ........................................................................................ 50-51 Forever Young Club – Senior Center Report ........................................................ 45 Former Aldermen .................................................................................................. 5-6 Former Clerks and Treasurers ............................................................................... 6 Former Mayors ..................................................................................................... 5 Independent Auditor’s Report ............................................................................... 54-96 Mayor’s Message .................................................................................................. 7-8 Parks and Recreation Department Report ............................................................ 41-45 Police Department Report ..................................................................................... 45-47 Public Works Department Report .......................................................................... 47-49 Sewer and Water Budget (Revenues) ................................................................... 30 Sewer and Water Budget (Expenses) .................................................................... 31-35 Tax Assessor’s Report .......................................................................................... 51 Vital Statistics ........................................................................................................ 40 Zoning Administrator’s Report ................................................................................ 52-53 MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS Centennial Planning Committee ............................................................................ 98-99 Department of Veterans Affairs ............................................................................. 105-106 Memphremagog Historical Society......................................................................... 107 Newport Ambulance Service, Inc. ........................................................................ 108-111 Newport City Downtown Development Organization .............................................. 101-104 Northeastern Vermont Development Association .................................................. 100 VSNIP .................................................................................................................... 112 SCHOOLS Newport City School Principals’ Report ................................................................. 114-115 Newport City School Proposed Budget ................................................................. 116-126 North Country Supervisory Union - Superintendent’s Report ................................ 128 North Country Supervisory Union – Revenues/Expenditures ................................ 129 North Country Supervisory Union - Proposed Budget ........................................... 130-133 North Country Supervisory Union Goals and Objectives ....................................... 134-135 APPROPRIATIONS Appropriation Requests ......................................................................................... 136 Goodrich Memorial Library .................................................................................... 137-141 Northeast Kingdom Council on Aging .................................................................... 145 Northeast Kingdom Human Services ..................................................................... 147-148 Orleans County Citizens Advocacy ........................................................................ 149-151 Orleans County Historical Society ......................................................................... 142-143 Pope Memorial Frontier Animal Shelter ................................................................. 144 Rural Community Transportation, Inc ..................................................................... 146 WARNING City of Newport, Vermont 100th Annual Meeting March 6, 2017 The legal voters of the City of Newport, including amounts approved by the Vermont, in the County of Orleans, voters as appropriations or State of Vermont, are hereby notified assessments, and authorize the City to and warned to meet at the Municipal assess a tax, in addition to amounts the Building in said City of Newport, City Council is by law authorized to Vermont on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at assess, sufficient to provide funds for 8:00 A.M. in the forenoon to act on the the same? following business. Article 4 Article 1 Shall the voters of the Newport City To elect by Australian Ballot System in School District authorize the Newport accordance with provisions of the City School Board to expend five million Charter of the City of Newport, Vermont five hundred Sixty-three thousand four as amended, and Title 17 VSA, Chapter hundred ninety-four dollars ($5,563,494) 55, Sec. 2630, the following officers: which is the amount the School Board Two Councilpersons for two years has determined to be necessary for the ensuing, One Councilperson for one ensuing year? (It is estimated that this year ensuing, Two Trustees to Newport proposed budget, if approved, will result City School District for three years in education spending of $13,649 per ensuing, One Trustee to Union School equalized pupil. This projected District #22 for three years ensuing, One spending per equalized pupil is 2.69% Trustee to Union School District #22 for lower than spending for the current two years ensuing, a Constable for one year). year ensuing and Three Grand jurors for three years ensuing. Article 5 Shall the voters of the Newport City Article 2 School District authorize the Newport Shall the City compensate the Mayor City School Board to borrow seventy and Councilpersons serving the City of thousand dollars ($70,000) for a period Newport for the ensuing year as follows: of five years, to fund several capital for the Mayor, two thousand dollars improvement projects at the Newport ($2,000), for the Councilperson serving City Elementary School? (This as Council President, one thousand borrowing, if approved, will have no seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), for impact on the budget being voted for each remaining Councilperson, one FY2019) thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500)? Article 6 Article 3 Shall the City exempt Orleans Essex Shall the voters of the City of Newport Visiting Nurses Association & Hospice, approve a budget of three million eight Inc. from property taxes on the property hundred eighty-nine thousand three located at 46 Lakemont Road, beginning hundred twenty-three dollars April 1, 2018 for five (5) years or less if ($3,889,323) for the general operation said property ceases to be used for non- and to cover liabilities of the City, profit services? Newport City Annual Report pg. 1 Article 7 Shall the City ask the City Assessor to and individuals with developmental reassess the property owned by disabilities so that all are heard, Vermont Land Trust, parcel #107016, respected, included and empowered, located at 171 Scott Farm Road? and direct the City to assess a tax sufficient to pay the same? Article 8 Shall the City of Newport appropriate Article 13 the sum of one hundred one thousand Shall the City of Newport appropriate dollars ($101,000) to help defray the the sum of seventeen thousand five operational expenses of the Goodrich hundred dollars ($17,500) to Orleans Memorial Library and direct the City to Essex Visiting Nurses Association and assess a tax sufficient to pay the same? Hospice, Inc. for the services of Skilled Nursing, Physical Therapy, Speech Article 9 Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Shall the City appropriate the sum of Medical Social Work, Licensed Nurses seven thousand dollars ($7,000) to Aids, Homemaker-personal Care