Annual Report of the Selectmen and Other Officers Town of Rye, New
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15Z..07 9k3 _ ^ ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Selectmen and Other Officers RYE TOWN HALL TOWN OF RYE NEW HAMPSHIRE FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1963 ^ 4> Strawberry Bank Print Shop, 63 Market Street, Portsmouth, N. H. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/annualreportofto1963ryen ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Selectmen and Other Officers TOWN OF RYE NEW HAMPSHIRE FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1963 Town Officers Moderator Philip S. Drake Town Clerk Raelene L. White Selectmen Robert B. Goss Ralph F. Hammond Edward L. Greene Treasurer Mildred I. Rand Representatives to the General Court Elizabeth A. Greene Maynard L. Young Jr. Tax Collector Norman L. Jenness Cemetery Trustees John H. Manning Charles P. Gordon Frank J. Caswell School Board Ralph E. Morang Buford Potts Helen J. Potvin School Treasurer Lillian B. Bemis Supervisors of the Checklist Annie B. Beals Ralph E. Berry John W. Patrick Library Trustees Elizabeth A. Greene Helen F. Philbrick Francis W. Sykes Trustees of Trust Funds Melvin R. Low John L. Parsons Agnes M. Brown, Deceased Ralph W. Eaton, Appointed Highway Agent Charles P. Gordon Police Department Eli W. Perry, Chief Municipal Court Gerald F. Giles Richard E. Dill Justice Special Justice Christopher S. Christo, Clerk Fire Department Charles P. Gordon, Chief Fire Wards Urban A. Beane George O. Philbrick, Jr. William R. Jenness State Forest Fire Warden Edward L. Greene Auditors John E. Johnston Ralph E. Berry Health Officer Walter M. Anderson, M. D. Supervisor of Cemetery Harbor Master John H. Manning Willis B. Saunders Planning Board Vincent H. Boutillier, R. Norman Stern, Chairman Clerk Robert V. O'Brien Robert B. Goss Howard D. Griffin Benjamin L. Orcutt Rodman Gearhart Board of Adjustment Channing H. Green Ernest E. Tucker Chairman Clerk Gerald F. Giles Robert W. Simpson Capt. Laurance S. Stewart Budget Committee Members at Large Term expires 1964 Richard M. Janvrin, Maynard L. Young, Jr. Term expires 1965 Elizabeth A. Greene Clerk George W. Nold, Jr. Term expires 1966 John E. Johnston, Chairman Robert V. O'Brien o> CO K r> o co in t> t- © **< © <M W © O © i-l to CO . TOWN WARRANT THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE (L. S.) To the Inhabitants of the Town of Rye in the County of Rocking- ham in said State, qualified to vote in Town Affairs: And to the Inhabitants of the School District in said Town of Rye, qualified to vote upon District Affairs, for the limited purpose of electing officers of the Rye School District at the annual Town Meeting, in accordance with procedures authorized by statute (RSA 197:1 a et. seq.) and adopted by the District at its March, 1962, annual meeting, under Article 2 of this war- rant. You are hereby notified to meet at the Town Hall in said Rye on Tuesday the tenth day of March, next at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to vote by ballot upon the following subjects: 1 Balloting a. To choose all necessary Town Officers for the year ensuing. b. To choose two delegates to the Constitutional Con- vention. c. Shall Sweepstakes Tickets be sold in this Town? 2. To choose all necessary officers for the Rye School Dis- trict in accordance with the statutor procedure adopted by said District at its March, 1962 annual meeting, to wit: a. To choose a Moderator for the Rye School District for the ensuing year. b. To choose a Clerk for the Rye School District for the ensuing year. c. To choose a member of the Rye School Board for the ensuing year. d. To choose a Treasurer for the Rye School District for the ensuing year. 3. To see if the Town of Rye will vote to continue the Municipal Court as provided in RSA 502-A:35 as inserted by the laws of 1963, Chapter 331. 4. On petition of Esther W. Parsons, to see if the town will vote to rezone from single residence to commercial district a parcel of land on Washington Road owned by the petitioner and described 6 as follows: All that certain tract or parcel of land situated in said Rye, New Hampshire and lying on the southeasterly side of Washington Road, and generally situated between land of Donna Berry on the north and other land of Esther W. Par- sons on the south, and more particularly bounded and de- scribed as follows: Beginning in the southeasterly line of Washington Road, at a point where an old stone wall situated on the northerly side of the house and barn of Esther W. Parsons does or would intersect with said road line; thence running southeasterly along the line of said 1 old stone wall and line extended thereof 150.0 feet to a point; thence turning and running on a line more to the south of east on a line extended from said last described point to the point of junction of two old stone walls a distance of 395 feet, more or less, to a point situated on a line which is parallel to and 50.0 feet measured on a perpen- dicular northwesterly of the line of a certain old stone wall on land of Esther W. Parsons which runs generally north and south: thence turning and running northerly on such line par- allel to said stone wall and 50.0 feet northwesterly thereof a distance of 140 feet more or less, to a point in another stone wall; thence continuing on an extension of said line parallel to said stone wall a distance of 125 feet, more or less to a point in another stone wall at other land of said Esther W. Parsons; thence turning and running northwesterly along the line of said stone wall and other land of Esther W. Parsons a distance of 340 feet, more or less, to a point in said stonewall de- termined by extending a line parallel to and measured 50.0 feet perpendicular from the southerly line of Donna Berry; thence turning and running somewhat more to the west of north on a line parallel to and 1 measured on a perpendicular from and 50.0 feet distance from the southerly line of land of Donna Berry, a distance of 1 90 feet, more or less, to the south- easterly line of Washington Road, said point being 50 feet, more or less, southwesterly of the southwesterly corner of land of said Donna Berry; thence turning and running south- westerly along the southwesterly side line of said Washington Road 310 feet more or less, to the point of beginning. Con- taining four acres, more or less. This petition was approved by the Planning Board after two public hearings were held thereon on dates of Janu- ary 3, 1964 and January 20, 1964. The following subjects will be voted upon at the business meeting which will be held at eight o'clock P. M. 5. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to de- fray town charges for the ensuing year and make appropriations of the same. 6. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to hire money from the Trustees of Trust Funds. 7. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to hire money in anticipation of taxes. 8. To see if the Town will vote to allow five percent dis- count on all property taxes on or before October 1, 1964. 9. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the prepay- ment of taxes and authorize the Tax Collector to accept payments in prepayment of taxes, in accordance with the provisions of RSA 80:52-a as inserted by Laws 1963, chapter 36. 10. To see if the Town will vote to allow the full time em- ployees of the Town two weeks annual vacation with pay instead of the one week they now receive. 11. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select- men to lease from the owners, for the sum of one dollar, a section of beach frontage located at Rye Beach, between the property of Carroll J. Brown at the north end and the property of Annie Schlott (formerly Sawyers Bath Houses) at the south end. Said beach frontage to be restricted to the exclusive use of the Tax Payers of Rye and their guests for a minimum fee, and that the Selectmen also be authorized to make whatever rules and regulations necessary to insure the proper control of the area and that the Rye Police Department be authorized to enforce such rules and regula- tions. 1 2. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select- men to appoint a committee to investigate and make a report with recommendations for the next annual Town Meeting as to the desirability of the Town of Rye acquiring other beach frontage within the Town for the exclusive use of the Tax Payers of Rye. 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 for the establishment of an aeronautical fund as provided by RSA 423 : 6. 14. If the previous article is passed in the affirmative, to see if the Town will vote to transfer from the aeronautical fund to the New Hampshire Aeronautics Commission the sum of $3,000.00 for the purposes authorized by RSA 423:7 and RSA 423:8. 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Twenty thousand ($20,000.00) dollars for the pur- 8 pose of the acquisition of a refuse burner, a suitable site for the same, and a tractor loader, prepare the site, erect equipment and place the burner in operation to replace the present system of open burning of refuse at the town dump, and further to authorize the Selectmen to issue serial notes and/or bonds upon the credit of the Town in accordance with the provisions of the Municipal Finance Act, RSA chapter 33 and any amendments thereto.