2015 Annual Report

Town of Durham New Hampshire New of Durham Town Town of Durham New Hampshire 2015 Annual Report 2015 Town Of Durham 8 Newmarket Road Durham, New Hampshire 03824 Telephone: 603 • 868 • 5571 www.ci.durham.nh.us 2015 Annual Report Town of Durham New Hampshire 2015 Annual Report For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 Cover Photo: Autumn in Durham by Bernie Casey Copyright 2016 All Rights Reserved PRINTED IN USA Design/Production by Design Point Studio, Salisbury, NH 03268 8 Newmarket Road Durham, New Hampshire 03824 Telephone: 603-868-5571 www.ci.durham.nh.us FRONT MATTER Durham, NH — Annual Report 2015 i Table of Contents Honorable Mentions ................................iv GENERAL GOVERNMENT In Memoriam Assessor ............................................... 25 Peter Sheridan Smith ...................... v Cemetery Committee .......................... 27 Phyllis Wheeler Bennett ............... vii Trustees of the Trust Funds ...........27 New Faces in 2015 ................................. ix General Assistance Officer ................. 29 Officers, Boards, and Committees ...... xi Planning and Community Retirement Development ....................................... 29 Jason Cleary ................................. xvi Planning Board .................................... 31 Thomas Johnson ......................... xvii Supervisors of the Checklist ............... 32 Town Election Results ....................... xix Tax Increment Finance Districts .........33 Warrant ................................................ xx Downtown TIF District .................33 Stone Quarry Drive TIF District ...35 ADMINISTRATIVE SUMMARY Town Clerk-Tax Collector ................... 36 Tree Warden ........................................ 39 Business Office .......................................1 Manager of Information Zoning Board of Adjustment .............40 Technology ...................................... 2 Zoning, Code Enforcement, Town Administrator .............................. 3 and Health Officer ...............................41 2015 Ordinances .................................... 4 PUBLIC SAFETY 2015 Resolutions .................................... 5 Fire Department .................................. 45 Town Council .......................................12 McGregor Memorial EMS ................... 47 Town Council Members ................. 13 Police Department .............................. 50 CULTURE AND RECREATION PUBLIC WORKS Conservation Commission .................. 15 Director of Public Works .....................53 Historic District/Heritage Engineering Division .......................... 55 Commission .........................................16 Operations Division ............................ 56 Parks and Recreation Committee .......18 Solid Waste Division ........................... 57 Parks and Recreation Director ......19 Wastewater Division ........................... 58 Public Library Board of Trustees ........ 20 Water Division .................................... 59 Library Director ............................. 21 ii Durham, NH — Annual Report 2015 FRONT MATTER TOWN SUPPORTED VITAL STATISTICS ORGANIZATIONS AND RESOURCES Aids Response Seacoast .......................61 Births 2015 ........................................... 85 American Red Cross ........................... 62 Deaths 2015 .......................................... 85 Big Brothers, Big Sisters Marriages 2015 ..................................... 87 of New Hampshire .............................. 63 Resource Information ......................... 87 Court Appointed Special n Land Area ........................................ 87 Advocates of New Hampshire ............64 n Meeting Dates for Town Boards, nCommittees and Commissions ....... 87 Community Action Partnership n Town Office Functions ....................88 of Strafford County .............................64 n Miscellaneous..................................88 Cross Roads House, Inc. .....................66 n Town Tax Rate .................................89 Goodwin Community Health ............. 67 Telephone Directory ...........................89 Haven ................................................... 67 n Emergency Numbers .......................89 n Municipal Offices ............................89 Homeless Center for n Other Commonly Used Numbers ...90 Strafford County .................................68 State and U.S. Representatives ............91 Homemakers Health Services ............ 70 Notice Concerning Involuntary Lamprey Health Care ...........................71 Merging of Real Estate Lots ............... 92 Oyster River Youth Association .......... 72 Oyster River Cooperative Ready Rides ......................................... 74 School District Letter.......................... 93 Strafford Regional Planning Commission ........................ 74 BUDGET AND FINANCE (Colored Stock at Report’s end) TOWN WORKING 2016 Approved General Fund COMMITTEES Appropriations .......................................1 Durham Agricultural Commission .... 77 2016 Estimated General Durham Energy Committee ............... 79 Fund Revenues .......................................1 Economic Development Director ......80 2015 Tax Rate Breakdown...................... 2 Integrated Waste Management 2015 Tax Valuation Breakdown ............. 2 Advisory Committee ........................... 82 Approved 2016-2025 Capital Lamprey River Advisory Improvement Program ......................... 3 Committee ........................................... 83 FY 2015 Budget to Estimated ................ 7 Oyster River Local Independent Auditor’s Report ............10 Advisory Committee ...........................84 Report of Trust and Capital Reserve Funds ........................ 27 Statement of Long-Term Indebtedness ....................................... 29 Valuation, Tax History and Inventory ....................................... 31 Valuation Figures 2011-2015 ........... 31 MS-1 Summary for 2015 ................. 31 Tax Rate 2011-2015 .......................... 31 Inventory of Town Property ........... 31 FRONT MATTER Durham, NH — Annual Report 2015 iii Honorable Mentions We would like to take this opportunity to thank and recognize the following citizens for the important contributions they made to the community while volunteering their time, talents, and efforts to serve on various elected and appointed boards, commissions, and committees. SUPERVISORS OYSTER RIVER ADVISORY OF THE CHECKLIST COMMITTEE Judith Aiken Stephen Burns James Colbert, UNH TOWN COUNCIL Diana Carroll PARKS & RECREATION David Howland COMMITTEE Robin Mower Jason Seaman Julian Smith Nathan Trauntvein Doreen Wachenschwanz CONSERVATION COMMISSION PLANNING BOARD Richard Lyons Linda Tatarczuch John Parry David Williams Peter Smith Peter Wolfe ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRAFFORD REGIONAL COMMITTEE PLANNING COMMISSION Ute Luxem (MPO ADVISORY COMMITTEE) INTEGRATED WASTE Brendon Anderson MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE ZONING BOARD OF Michael Everngam ADJUSTMENT James Lawson Roberta Woodburn iv Durham, NH — Annual Report 2015 FRONT MATTER In Memoriam eter Sheridan Smith was In 1966, Smith became the first a talented and successful attorney of the Neighborhood attorney, and a highly devoted Legal Services Program of public servant, having served Washington, DC – the nation’s on the Town Council for two first civil appellate legal services Pconsecutive terms, nine years program. He argued before the on the Planning Board, and Supreme Court of the United States eleven years on the Conservation the landmark case Shapiro v. Commission. The following is Thompson that brought an end to from the published obituary Peter Sheridan Smith welfare residency requirements. The that chronicles his life and April 27, 1938 to work he did in public housing and achievements: February 14, 2015 welfare reform continues to this day to affect the quality of lives of those Peter Sheridan Smith, an attorney people who are dependent upon who assisted in the preparation and defense of the government policy for their very survival. Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Act of 1965, and who was the first legal services lawyer to argue Having concluded that lack of access to effective before the Supreme Court, died on February 14th at legal representation required the participation of the his home in Durham, New Hampshire at the age of private sector, Smith engaged in a groundbreaking 76. The cause was lymphoma. effort at the Baltimore law firm of Piper and Marbury. The white shoe firm hired Smith in 1969 Mr. Smith spent his 50 year career delivering legal to open and direct a branch office in Baltimore’s services to those who traditionally have been inner-city dedicated exclusively to representing denied access – African Americans and other poor individuals – the first program of its kind people of color, the poor, juveniles, and those with in the United States. Under his leadership, the disabilities. As a member of the elite Appeals and office became a model for a number of other law Research Section of the Civil Rights Division of firms in the country and was the subject of a book: the Justice Department, Smith wrote and argued “The New Private Practice – A Study of Piper & appeals in some of the most significant cases Marbury’s Neighborhood Law Office”. in the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. It was during that time that Smith met Marjorie Kester, In 1972, Smith joined the faculty at the University who was working as special assistant to the first of Maryland Law School and created

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