Annual Report of the Municipal Officers of the Town of Gorham, N.H., for The
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MUNICIPAL OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF GORHAM, N. H. FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST 1967 « Courier Printing Company, Inc. Littleton, New Hampshire Report of Special Budget Meeting A special Budget Committee meeting was held Wednesday, Feb- ruary 21, 1968 at the request of the Gorham School Board. Due to unforeseen circumstances, they requested the following items in their previously submitted budget (Pages 17, 18, 19) be amended as follows: Amended Item No. Increase Total 210 Salaries $ 23,400.00 $ 314,400.00 215 Textbooks 2,400.00 8,200.00 220 Audio-Visual 700.00 3,700.00 230 Instructional Supplies 960.00 10,460.00 235 Contracted Services 48.00 5,795.00 500 Pupil Trans, (for larger bus) 4,000.00 24,770.00 630 Operational Supplies 400.00 3,400.00 850 Fixed Charges 1,435.84 22,435.84 1266 Buildings (for Ed. Fenn addition) 250,000.00 1,150,000.00 1371 Other Debt Service 4,850.00 31,595.50 TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS $288,193.84 $1,704,225.50 TOTAL REVENUES 254,000.00 1,271,144.00 NET APPROPRIATION $ 34,193.84 $ 433,081.50 Summary of Budget (Page 11) and Details of Budget (Page 15) are amended as follows: ESTIMATED NET TOWN BUDGET $ 178,891.00 COUNTY TAX (Estimated) 50,000.00 SCHOOL BUDGET (Regular and Building) $1,704,225.50 Estimated Revenues 1,271,144.00 NET SCHOOL BUDGET 433,081.50 ESTIMATED TOWN, COUNTY AND SCHOOL BUDGETS $ 661,972.50 Resumes of Budgets (Page 15) are amended as follows: TOTAL TOWN BUDGET $ 271 691 00 TOTAL SCHOOL 1,704,225 50 TOTAL TOWN AND SCHOOL BUDGETS $1,975,916.50 Less: Estimated Receipts and Credits Town $ 92,800.00 School 1,271,144.00 1,363,944.00 NET TOWN AND SCHOOL BUDGETS $ 611,972 50 ESTIMATED COUNTY TAX 50,000.00 TOTAL ESTIMATED TOWN, SCHOOL AND COUNTY BUDGETS $ 661,972.50 The Budget Committee recommends the above increases be appropriated, the Edward Fenn Building project to be financed by bonds, the bonding and construction to be handled as one project with the previously submitted High School and Ann Lary projects. Dated: February 21, 1968 GEORGE A. BLUNDEN ARMAND LaROCHES ROBERT MAROIS DAVID W. MURPHY, Clerk DAVID T. PENNEY, Chairman LEO E. RAY CHESTER BERRY ROBERT MURPHY PHILIP K. VANCE CARLETON W. MacKAY, Selectman ROMEO ORINO, School Board Member Gorham Budget Committee Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/annualreportofto1967gorh INDEX List of Town Officers 2-3 Copy of Town Warrant 4-6 Copy of Town Budget 7-10 Summary of Budget 11 Details of Budget 12-15 Report of Budget Committee 16 Copy of School Budget 17-19 Statement of Appropriations and Taxes Assessed for 1967 .... 20-21 Summary Inventory of Valuation for 1967 22 Selectmen's Certificate 23 Schedule of Town Property 23 Comparative Statement of Appropriations and Expenditures 24-25 Balance Sheet (Assets and Liabilities) 26-27 Receipts and Payments for 1967 28-31 Report of Selectmen—Town Expenses: Town Officers' Salaries 32 Town Officers' Expenses 32 Election and Registration 33 District Court Expenses 33 Legion Hall Repairs 33 Town Buildings' Expenses 33 Police Department 34 Police Cruiser Expenses 34 Fire Department 34 Cascade Fire Station 35 Cascade Fire Equipment 35 Cascade Fire Truck 35 Insurance 35 Skating Rinks 36 Dump and Garbage Removal 36 Summer Roads 36 Winter Roads 37 Street Lighting 37 Parks, Playgrounds and Band Concerts 37 Cemeteries 38 Advertising, Regional Assns., and Information Booth .... 38 Dogs and Licenses 38 Social Security 38 Schools 39 Interest 39 Dredging 39 Civil Defense 39 Town Road Aid (TRA) 39 Vital Statistics 39 Town Poor 40 Old Age Assistance 40 Auto Permits 40 County Tax 40 Memorial Day 40 Fourth of July 41 New Sidewalk Tractor 41 New Dump Truck and Plow 41 New Dumpsite 41 Community Health 41 Health Officer 41 Total Expenditures for 1967 42-47 State Tax Commission Report 48-49 Report of Tourist Information Booth 50-51 Report of District Court Clerk and Justice 52-53 Report of the Public Library 54 Report of the Librarian 55 Report of the Gorham District Nurse Association 56 Report of the District Nurse 57 Report of the Recreation Commission 58-66 Report of the Town Clerk 67 Report of the Treasurer 67 Report of the Water and Sewer Commission 68-69 Report of the Tax Collector 70-76 Report of Town Auditors 77-85 Report of Trustees of Trust Funds 86-97 Vital Statistics 98-102 White Mountains Region Association Report 103 Town Officers, 1967-1968 Selectmen CARLETON W. MacKAY, Chairman Term Expires 1968 JOSEPH R. GALLANT Term Expires 1969 EDWARD L. CLARK Term Expires 1970 Treasurer Town Clerk EDWARD M. MORSE ALBERT R. WILSON Library Trustees IRENE B. RAY Term Expires 1968 JEAN B. LARY Term Expires 1969 HELEN L. STAPLES Term Expires 1970 Librarian Asst. Librarian PHYLLIS TWITCHELL DORIS FARRER Police Officers ANTHONY R. DOOAN, Chief LIONEL LeBLANC EDWIN L. BLAKE JEROME 0. PIET GEORGE T. WEBB Tax Collector Deputy Tax Collector VIOLET S. TOTH HELEN J. HINKLEY Fire Wards ALTON JOUDREY, Chief LEO PAULIN LAURENT NAULT Gorham Fire Department CORSON S. LARY, Chief RICHARD MILLS, 2nd Asst. Chief CHESTER BISSETT, 1st Asst. Chief LINNIS JOUDREY, Clerk Cascade Fire Department GERALD MARCOU, Chief HOWARD M. SCHMIDT, Clerk JOHN V. DONATO, Asst.-Chief Auditors CARL M. FISKE FRANK L. CROCKETT Supervisors of Check Lists ESTELLE BRIGGS Term Expires 1968 MARIE L. ANDREWS Term Expires 1970 JEAN B. LARY Term Expires 1972 Moderator Public Works Foreman EDWARD J. REICHERT FREDERICK M. LIBBY District Court JAMES J. BURNS, Justice Ljinnis K. Joudrey, Clerk ARTHUR DUPONT, Asso. Justice Office Clerks HELEN J. HINKLEY Selectmen's Clerk VIOLET S. TOTH Water Department Water and Sewer Commissioners ARTHUR R. RICHER, Chairman Term Expires 1988 WILTON W. McLEOD Term Expires 1969 ROBERT W. YORK Term Expires 1970 Water Superintendent REGINALD LIBBY Trustees of Trust Funds HELEN J. HINKLEY, Bookkeeper Term Expires 1968 CARL M. FISKE Term Expires 1969 EDWARD J. REICHERT Term Expires 1970 Cemetery Superintendent ALBERT R. WILSON Gorham District Nurse Association ERNEST HERRMANN, Chairman FARRELL O'CONNOR LOIS LEAVITT, Vice Chairman NEWIE ROWE DORIS SIMONEAU, Sec.-Treas. MARIE STONE MILDRED KILGORE DAVID S. BROUGHTON, M.D. Nurse Substitute Nurse DOROTHY JOHNSON, R.N. DORIS SIMONEAU, R.N. Recreation Commission JOHN R. DALPHONSE* Term Expires 1968 MAURICE THURLOW, Chairman Term Expires 1968 REUELL A. LEAVITT Term Expires 1989 PHILIP K. ROSS* Term Expires 1970 GEORGE A. BLUNDEN Term Expires 1970 *Resigned, not yet replaced. Recreational Director TED D. WALKER Budget Committee GEORGE A. BLUNDEN Term Expires 1968 ARMAND LaROCHE Term Expires 1968 ROBERT MAROIS Term Expires 1988 DAVID W. MURPHY, Clerk Term Expires 1969 DAVID T. PENNEY, Chairman Term Expires 1969 LEO E. RAY Term Expires 1969 CHESTER BERRY Term Expires 1970 ROBERT MURPHY Term Expires 1970 PHILIP K. VANCE Term Expires 1970 CARLETON W. MacKAY Selectman ROMEO ORINO School Board Member 1967 Information Booth Attendants MARION DONAHUE ELEANOR ROBERTSON ANNIE HOLMES DORIS TUININGA State of New Hampshire To the inhabitants of the Town of Gorham in the County of Coos, in said State, qualified to vote in town affairs: You are hereby notified to meet in the Municipal Hall on Tues- day, the twelfth day of March next, at nine of the clock in the fore- noon to act upon the following subjects: ARTICLE 1. To elect one selectman for three years, and choose all other necessary town officers for the ensuing year(s). (On the Ballot) ARTICLE 2. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provi- sion of Chapter 41:16a, New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated relating to election by ballot of the Town Clerk for three year terms. (On the Ballot) ARTICLE 3. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for General Government. ARTICLE 4. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Protection of Persons and Property. ARTICLE 5. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Health. ARTICLE 6. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Summer Roads. ARTICLE 7. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and approprite for Winter Roads. ARTICLE 8. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Street Lighting. ARTICLE 9. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Town Road Aid (TRA). ARTICLE 10. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Public Library. ARTICLE 11. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Public Welfare. ARTICLE 12. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Memorial Day. ARTICLE 13. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate to celebrate the return of war veterans on the Fourth of July in conjunction with the American Legion. 5 ARTICLE 14. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Recreation. ARTICLE 15. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Parks and Playgrounds, including Band Concerts. ARTICLE 16. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Skating Rinks. ARTICLE 17. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Water & Sewer Maintenance. ARTICLE 18. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Cemeteries.