Annual Report of the Officers of the Town of Plymouth, N.H. Year Ending

NHamp 352.07 lURTH CLASS RATE - BOOKS H^^O(.J^- if -TV" P73 1972 77/ Annual R d} 3 S- :i / PLYMOUTH NEW HAMPSHIRE 'isssssssss^ % ^ .uoi^if SsiBSii**i:': YEAR ENDING December 31, 1972 DATES TO REMEMBER January 1 Fiscal Year Begins January 31 Last date for retaining last year's auto registration number February 27 Meeting—Supervisors of Checklist 7:00 - 9:00 P. M. Town Office in Court House March 1 ANNUAL SCHOOL MEETING March 5 Meeting—Supervisors of Checklist 7:00 - 9:00 P. M. Town Office in Court House March 6 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING March 8 ANNUAL PLYMOUTH VILLAGE WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT MEETING March 31 Motor Vehicle Registration Expires April 1 All property both real and personal, assessed to owner this date April 15 Last day to file inventory to be eligible to make claim to abate- ment. RSA 77:14 Last day for veterans to file for tax exemptions Last day to file for tax exemption of certain elderly persons May 1 Dog tax due. Licenses available from Town Clerk Bicycle plates due. Licenses available at Police Station from Chief. December 1 Unpaid real and personal taxes commence drawing interest at 9 % after this date. December 31 Fiscal Year Closes. SELECTMEN'S MEETINGS: Monday evenings at 7:00 P. M. at Town Office in Court House ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE Town of Plymouth, N. H YEAR ENDING December 31, 1972 MOUNTAIN MEDIA, INC. PLYMOUTH. N. H. Our front and back covers depict scenes at the new Plymouth Sewage Treatment Plant. INDEX Town Officers 4 Results of Town Meetings and Vote on 1972 Warrant 6 Warrant 16 Town Budget 21 Report of Selectmen 24 Town Inventory 26 Statement of Appropriations and Taxes 27 Financial Statement 30 Statement of Bonded Indebtedness 31 Tax Collector's Report 32 Town Treasurer's Report 34 George G. Clark Account 36 Report of Town Clerk 37 Comparative Statement of Appropriations and Expenditures 38 Selectmen's Detailed Statement of Payments 41 A — Town Officers' Expenses 47 B — Police Department Expenses 48 C — Fire Department Expenses 50 D — Ambulance Service 52 E — Highway Department Expenses 53 Parking Meter Account 55 Police Department Report 56 District Court Report 58 Fire Department Report 59 Plymouth Ambulance Report 60 Property Owned by Town 61 Report of Overseer of Poor 63 Donated Food Program 64 Report of Librarian 65 Report of Library Trustees 66 Civil Defense Report 68 Report of Park & Recreation Commission 69 Report of Information Booth 72 Plymouth Airport 73 Home-Health Agency Report 74 Planning Board Report 75 Trust Funds Reports 76 Funds for Investment 80 Forest Fire Warden's Report 84 Town Auditors' Report 85 Vital Statistics: Births 86 Marriages 87 Deaths 91 —— TOWN OFFICERS Selectmen : Norman L. Samaha resigned October 22, 1972 Wayne C. Lewison appointed November 15, 1972 Term Expires 1972 Madison W. Sears Term Expires 1973 Robert J. Crowley Term Expires 1974 Moderator: George T. Ray Town Clerk: Carol A. Elliott Town Treasurer: Carol A. Elliott Tax Collector: Virginia M. Wood Supervisors of Check List : Henrietta White Term Expires 1974 Polly A. Forbes Term Expires 1976 Suzanne Loizeaux Term Expires 1978 Overseer of Poor : Horace Morse Health Officer: William H. Hopkins Auditors: Samuel H. Dreghorn, Edith R. Smith Director of Airport: Henry Fracher Director of Civil Defense: Brian F. Parris Forest Warden: Glenn L. Williams Director of Plymouth Ambulance: Louis Sleeper Road Agent: Fred Hussey Library Trustees: Rowena Wixson Term Expires 1973 William F. Batchelder Term Expires 1974 Dorothy Smith Term Expires 1975 Trustees of Trust Funds : Alida Buckland Term Expires 1973 Elmore Cochran Term Expires 1974 James E. Currie Term Expires 1975 Chief of Police: John R. Cloud Police Officers: Donald A. Young, Howard Minnon, Hugh Besemer, Sydney Carlson, Richard Farrell, Wayne Frizzell Budget Committee: Watson A. Rand Term Expires 1975 Arthur Christiansen Term Expires 1974 Robert Frey Term Expires 1975 John Noyes Term Expires 1976 Adjustment Board: William H. Noyes Term Expires 1973 Fletcher Adams Term Expires 1974 Clarence Jones Term Expires 1975 George Bartlett Term Expires 1976 Suzanne Loizeaux Term Expires 1977 Richard Brown Alternate Member Priscilla Guinan Alternate Member Park and Recreation Commission: Carol George Term Expires 1973 Wallace C. Gushing Term Expires 1973 Philip Tapply Term Expires 1974 Patricia Straw Term Expires 1975 William Wilkinson Term Expires 1975 Planning Board: Horace Morse Term Expires 1973 Phyllis Sutherland Term Expires 1973 E. James Smith Term Expires 1974 John Pillsbury Term Expires 1974 Harold Trojano, Chairman Term Expires 1975 Henry Fracher Term Expires 1975 Conservation Committee: John Webster Term Expires 1973 Norman McWilliams Term Expires 1973 Robert Frey, Chairman Term Expires 1973 Joel Barney Term Expires 1974 Nelson Jacques Term Expires 1974 Rosamund Orr, Clerk Term Expires 1975 Russell Allen Term Expires 1975 6 — : TOWN MEETING—MARCH 7, 1972 A legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Plymouth was held in the Plymouth Area High School gymnasium on Tuesday, March 7, 1972 and opened at 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon by the Moderator, Atty. George T. Ray, Jr. reading from the 1972 warrant. It was voted to dispense with further reading of the warrant until 7:30 o'clock in the afternoon. Moderator Ray then declared the polls open to ballot on Articles 1 and 2 in the Town Warrant and Article 1 in the School District Warrant and to close not earlier than 6:00 o'clock in the afternoon. At 7:30 o'clock in the afternoon the meeting was opened by Moderator Ray with a salute to the flag. Article 3 Town Charges: Voted to raise $142,481.00 This sum to be apportioned as follows Officers' Salaries $6,100.00 Officers' Expenses 18,931.00 Elections 2,000.00 Plymouth District Court 13,500.00 Town Hall & Other Buildings 2,000.00 Street Lights 13,500.00 Vital Statistics 300.00 Town Poor 5,000.00 Old Age Assistance 9,000.00 Town Dump 8,500.00 Insurance 8,500.00 Motor Vehicle Permits 2,500.00 Legal Expense & Surveying 1,000.00 Soc. Sec—Ret.—Blue Cross 14,500.00 Zoning & Planning Board 500.00 Interest 12,650.00 Long Term Notes 24,000.00 $142,481.00 Article 4.—Library Trustees: Dorothy Smith was elected for a term of three years. Article 5.—Park Commissioners: Patricia Straw and William Wilkinson were each elected for terms of three years. 6 Article 6.—Trustees of Trust Funds: James Currie was elected for a term of three years and Alida Buckland for a term of one year. Article 7.—Police Department Expenses for Year: Voted to raise and appropriate $54,698.00 Article 8.—Free Public Library: Voted to raise and appropriate 9,932.00 Article 9.—Zoning Board of Adjustment: M. Suzanne Loizeaux was elected for a term of five years. Article 10.—Maintenance and Construction of Highways: Voted to raise 59,363.00 Article 11.—Sidewalks: Voted to raise and appropriate 1,500.00 An amendment to this article was made and seconded as follows: To instruct the Selectmen to negotiate with Miss Alice Foster for the purchase of land, or an easement, for the construction of a sidewalk on the town road section leading to the school and to instruct the Selectmen to recommend an appropriation for such purposes, either at the next regular Town Meeting or an ad- journment of this meeting, if there be such. A vote taken on the amendment to Article 11 was in the affirmative. It was then voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,500.00 for sidewalks, as amended. Article 12.—State Aid Highway Maintenance: Voted to raise 701.88 Article 13.—Fire Department Expenses for Year: Voted to raise and appropriate 56,495.00 Article 14.—Sceva Speare Memorial Hospital: Voted to raise and appropriate 2,500.00 Article 15.—Ambulance Service for the Town of Plymouth: Voted to raise and appropriate 6,000.00 Article 16.—Care of Shade Trees and Planting of New Trees: Voted to raise and appropriate 2,500.00 Article 17.—Civil Defense: Voted to raise and appropriate 750.00 7 Article 18.--N. E. Tel. & Tel. Company: Voted to grant the N. E. Tel. & Tel. Company a right of way to maintain its underground lines across the property of the Town known as Plymouth Airport, an approximate distance of 2,498 feet, said right of way subject to the vote of the Town at its annual meeting. Article 19.—Plymouth Airport—Maintenance and Improvement: Voted to raise and appropriate 500.00 Article 20.—Improvement of Hunt Road: Voted to raise and aprpopriate 300.00 Article 21.—Improvement of Pike Hill Road : Voted to raise and appropriate 300.00 Article 22.—Park and Recreation Commission for Development and Maintenance of Recreation Areas and Conducting a Year-Round Community Recreation Program: Voted to raise and appropriate 16,939.00 Article 23.—^Regional Refuse Disposal Planning Committee: Moved and seconded to establish a Regional Refuse Disposal Plan- ning Committee in accordance with RSA 53-B:l, said Committee to consist of three members to be appointed by the Moderator within thirty days after this meeting. Article 24.—Investigation Into Solving Solid Waste Disposal Prob- lems in Plymouth : Voted to raise and appropriate 250.00 to be matched by the Ford Foundation and/or any other private or public source for the purpose of supporting investigation into solving solid waste disposal problems in Plymouth and to authorize acceptance and expenditure of these funds by the Conservation Committee. Article 25.—Authority for Selectmen to Borrow Money in Anticipa- tion of Taxes: Voted to so authorize.

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