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Annual Reports of the Town of Greenland, New Hampshire, for The TOWN OF GREENLAND NEW HAMPSHIRE ANNUAL REPORT For the year ended December 31, 2008 TOWN OF GREENLAND Town Clerk/Tax Office Monday 11:00 AM -7:00 PM 431-7111 ext. 110 Tues. - Friday 9:00 AM -4:30 PM Town Office Office Hours Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM 431-7111 430-3761 (Fax) Selectmen Meetings 2"'' & 4* Mondays 7:00 PM Building Inspector Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM 431-7111 ext. 107 OR 43 1-3070 Police Department Office Hours Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM 431-4624 Health Officer 433-3169 Animal Control Officer 431-4624 Weeks Library Hours Monday & Thursday 10:00 AM -8:00 PM 436-8548 Tues., Wed., Friday 10:00 AM -5:00 PM Email: weekspl(S)comcast.net Saturday (except July-August) 9:00 AM- 1:00 PM Website: www, weeks I ibrary . org Meetings Board Location Date Time Library Trustees Library 2"'' Monday 4:30 PM Fire Department Fire Station 2"\ 3'", 4* Tuesdays 7:30 PM School Board School 3^ Monday 6:30 PM Planning Board Town Office 1"& 3"* Thursdays 7:00 PM Recreation Comm. Town Office r' Monday 7:00 PM Conservation Comm. Town Office l" Monday 7:00 PM Zoning Board Town Office 3"* Tuesday 7:00 PM Budget Committee Town Office As needed/ Posted Mosquito Control Town Office As needed / Posted Visit the Town of Greenland's Web Site: www.greenland-nh.com for meeting agendas, minutes, important forms and up-to-date information. COVER PHOTO: Ice Storm that hit on December 1 1, 2008 1 Annual Reports of the Town of Greenland New Hampshire FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 3 2008 AS COMPILED BY THE TOWN OFFICERS ^i Significant Dates (March-December 2009) March 9: Last day to accept absentee ballots filed in person March 10: Election Day (Polls are open 8 A.M. to 7 P.M.) March 14: Town Meeting (Begins at 9 A.M.) March 29: Daylight Saving Time begins April 1-30: Annual Dog License Renewal April 15: Last day for eligible residents to file for 2009 Property tax credits and/or exemptions for: Veterans/Elderly/Disabled May 25: Memorial Day - Town Offices Closed July 2: Last Day to pay 1^' Property Tax Bill before Interest accrues July 3: Independence Day - Town Offices Closed September 7: Labor Day - Town Offices Closed October 12: Columbus Day - Town Offices Closed October 25: Daylight Saving Time ends November 26: Thanksgiving Day - Town Offices Closed December 25: Christmas Day - Town Offices Closed TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Dedication 2 The Greenland Methodist Society 3 Greenland's Citizens of the Year • 9 Town Officers 10 Town Election and Meeting 13 Financial Reports Appropriations Actually Voted 23 Actual and Estimated Town Officer's Salaries - 2008 25 Schedule of Town Property 26 Rate of Taxation 32 Summary Inventory of Valuation - MS 1 33 Tax Collectors -MS 61 53 Auditors Letters 73 Wages of Town Employees 71 Department and Committee Reports: Board of Selectmen 27 Building Inspector/Code Enforcement 39 Cemetery Trustees 51 Community Center Study Committee 28 Conservation Commission 60 Emergency Management 47 Fire Department 44 Health Officer 49 Tax Collector/ Town Clerk 30 Town Administrator's Report 29 Treasurer 52 Trustees of the Trust Funds 51 Planning Board 56 Police Department 41 Recreation Committee 58 Recycling Report 61 Stormwater Report 57 Veteran's Association 68 Weeks Public Library 62 Vital Statistics 69 Greenland School District Report 107 Town & School Warrants & Budgets Colored Pages Many ofthe photos throughout this report were taken by Robert Cushman and Amy Leonard. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Boston Library Consortium IVIember Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/annualreportofto2008gree 05 DEDICATION BO This year's Annual Report is dedicated to the memory of Bob Peterson who donated much of his time behind the scenes for various local groups and was active in community service within Greenland, He is remembered as a man of his word and a "pay it forward" kind of guy. The Town appreciates and honors his years of community service. 7 Robert "Bob" Peterson 10/13/08 Greenland Veteran's Association member GPO volunteer 1983-1995 Boy Scouts volunteer 1981-1994 -2- The Greenland Methodist Society During the long incumbency (1760-1804) of Samuel Macclintock as Greenland's Congregational pastor, other denominations were unable to obtain a foothold in town. The arrival in Stratham of Baptist preachers in the summer of 1770 was greeted by Mr. Macclintock by a sermon. The Artifices of Deceivers , preached on July 22 and later printed, in which, while calling himself "a friend to religious liberty," he accused the Baptists of such tactics as "making their attack on the weaker vessels [i. e. women], that by their means they may ensnare their husbands," and "by their good words and fair speeches deceiv[tng] the hearts of the simple." Although a Baptist society was soon established in Stiatham, Greenland remained almost completely unaffected. In 1791 and 1792, Dr. Macclintock (as he had recently become) led a successful fight to maintain the establishment of the Congregational Church in New Hampshire, against a constitutional convention's attempts to weaken it. Meanwhile, however, leaders of another denomination were surveying northern New England as a possible future missionary field. In August 1791, according to Alfred M. Clough's 1909 history of Methodism in Greenland, Rev. Jesse Lee (1758-1816), a Virginian who had established the first Methodist church in New England in 1789, "came to Greenland, dined at Dr. [Clement] March's, preached to an audience of four , and went on to Portsmouth." In September 1793, Lee repeated the visit to Dr. March's, again on his way to Portsmouth. Francis Asbury (1745-1816), America's first Methodist bishop, dined in Greenland (presumably at an inn) while tiaveling from WeUs, Maine, to Salisbury, Mass., in September 1798, and in June 1802 he breakfasted here while tiaveling in the opposite direction. Although they had no plans as yet to challenge the established church in Greenland, Methodist leaders definitely knew where the town was. When Dr. Macclintock died in April 1804, the one-time Congregational predominance at Harvard's divinity school had changed to Unitarian, which made obtaining an orthodox successor for him difficult. James Armstiong Neal, a native of Londonderry, N. H., who had taught school for a number of years in Philadelphia, returned to the Seacoast in 1804, and in November was licensed to preach by the Piscataqua Association of Ministers. Although not a college graduate, Neal had been awarded an honorary M. A. by Dickinson College. In Philadelphia, he had taught at the Young Ladies' Academy founded by John Poor (1752-1829), a 1775 Harvard graduate who for several years, with his wife Sally Folsom, had kept the tavern at today's 480 Portsmouth Avenue in Greenland previously run by Sally's father John, but left after her death in 1784 to seek his fortune in the metiopolis. Precisely how James A. Neal came to return to New Hampshire and apply for Dr. Macclintock's late pastorate is unknown. In December 1804, a special town meeting chose a committee "to hire a new Candidate to supply the Desk" (i. e., pulpit). Mr. Neal preached on eleven Sundays during the winter, and on March 12, 1805 was invited to settle in Greenland. His ordination was set for May 22. The town would gain a pastor in his early thirties, who it was hoped would rival his predecessors, William Allen (53 years) and Dr. MaccUntock (48 years), in length of service. But this was not to be. In April 1806, Mr. Neal, on a visit to Boston, consulted Dr. John Warren, professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, about a "slight pain in his (1753-1814) breast . occasioned ... by walking rather fast in the stieet." Dr. Warren quickly diagnosed angina pectoris, and forecast a probable early death. Mr. Neal spent the winter of 1806-7 in Georgia, "but derived no permanent advantage from the change," Dr. 3- Warren wrote. Thereafter he was able to perform very little physical work, and his parish (and its records) suffered accordingly. Mr. Neal died on July 18, 1808. Meanwhile, on July 15, 1807, the General Court had passed a law recognizing "the people of this State known by the name of Methodists" as "entitled to all the privileges and immunities which any other denomination is entitled to." Members of a self-styled "Christian" body, closely related to the Freewill Baptists, had done a bit of evangelizing and baptizing by immersion in Greenland while Mr. Neal was alive. In August 1808, however. Rev. George Pickering (1769-1846), a Maryland native and resident of Watertown, Mass., who was officially a "missionary-at-large" in the itinerant Methodist tradition, began to preach in Greenland's vacant meetinghouse. He was well received; on December 28, 66 residents petitioned the selectmen to give Mr. Pickering as much of the town's minister's tax as was "undisposed of at the death of the Rev. Mr. Neal." This was done, and he received $70 in March 1809. On March 14, the annual town meeting voted "that the Congregationalists occupy the Meeting house one half of the time & the Methodists and Baptists the other half," and chose Methodist and Congregational committees to oversee each group's affairs. The Baptists' numbers in Greenland were negligible, and they never obtained a settled pastor. Finding a suitable Congregationalist to settle in town was even harder in 1809 than it had been in 1804, although an occasional preacher visited; the Methodists had a relatively clear field for the next four years, and didn't waste their opportunity.
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