I I I I 9 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN and TREASURER of the town of DuMJ&O/VtOfv Together with the Reports of the Road Agent and other Officers of the Town for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, THE NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL STAUER OFFICE BU11DINC BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 02116 .AREA CODE 6I?J 54JO5S0 July 2, 1969 Chairman, Board of Selectmen Town of Dunbarton Town Hall Dunbcrton, New Hampshire Dear Sir: We are pleased to advise you that your 1967 Annual Report has been selected as the Outstanding Merit winner in C\ass I in the 24th Annual Municipal Report Awards. These awards are given for excellence in reporting municipal activities, and take into account general attractiveness, readability by the average citizen, and contribution to citizen understanding of local government. As you may know, the nomination of your community for the New England contest came about as a result of the selection of your report for an award in the judging within your state conducted by the New Hampshire Municipal Association. Once the winners have been selected from each state, they become eligible for the New EnglandAwrrdi, held under the auspices of the New England Council in cooperation with the New England States and Municipal Finance Officers' Association. The judges were: Mr. J. Kinney O'Rourke, Executive Director, Massachusetts League of Cities and Towns; Mr. David Mann, Executive Director, New Hampshire Municipal Association; and, Professor Gerald Powers, School of Public Communication, Boston University. Award certificates will be presented this year during the annual conference of the New England States end Municipal Finance Officers' Association on September 11,12 & 13 at the Shawmut Inn Hotel, Kennebunkport, Maine, at a time to be determined. You will be advised of the day and time In advance. We hope that you or a representative of your community will be able to attend to receive this well-deserved recognition. Very truly yours, .jhtru^b/.Qe-e-Av Irving H. Beck \H6/gdw Director, Interstate Relations ADVANCING All FACETS OF NEW ENGLAND'S ICOMKW AJH 352.07 J>89 196? Analysis of Increase in Current Surplus 13 Selectmen's Message 7 Certificate of Town Auditors 28 Statement of Appropriations & Taxes Assessed 10 Comparative Balance Sheet 12 Summary of Cash Receipts & Disbursements 17 Comparative Statement of Appropriations and Expenditures 16 Summary of Head Tax Warrants 25 Comparative Statement Est. & Act. Revenue & Budget Surplus 11 Summary Inventory of Valuation 19 Detail of Expenditures 20 Summary of Treasurer's Account and Proof of Balance 18 Directory of Town Officials 4 Town Budget 14 Forest Committee Report 23 Town Warrant 8 Forest Fire Warden 29 Planning Board 28 VITAL STATISTICS 47 Real Estate & Personal Property Values Center Insert Record of Annual Town Meeting & Special Meeting 5 Annual Report of School Health 42 Report of Conservation Commission 26 Annual Report of School Lunch Program 40 Report of Finance Committee 26 Balance Sheet 41 Report of Librarian 30 Directory of School District Officers 33 Report of Library Trustees 30 Financial Report of School District 38 Report of Police Department 27 Records of Annual Meeting of School District 35 Report of Tax Collector and Tax Sale Account 24,25 Report of Long Range Elementary Education Committee 44 Report of Town Clerk 19 Report of School District Treasurer 41 Report of Treasurer of Library Trustees 31 Report of Superintendent of Schools 43 Report of Visiting Nurse Ass'n of Concord 27 School District Budget 37 Report of Volunteer Fire Department 29 School District Warrant 45 Schedule of Town Property 18 Statistics of School District - 40 3 Town Forest Committee ERNEST DUGRENIER Term Ending 1970 J. WILLCOX BROWN Term Ending 1971 ROBERT F. BAKER Term Ending 1972 WILFRED H. MARSHALL Term Ending 1973 JOSEPH W. SOWLE, SR. Term Ending 1974 Conservation Commission MILDRED CARLSON Term Ending 1970 FREDOLPH BLOMQUIST Term Ending 1970 Moderator ARTHUR POWELL Supervisors of Check List JANE GRANT Term Ending 1971 LINCOLN W. BURNHAM MURRAY McKAY Town Clerk DONALD B. MONTGOMERY WILLIAM H. ZELLER FRED LORD Term Ending 1971 Town Treasurer HELEN G. AVERY FREDERIC GREENHALGE Term Ending 1971 Surveyors of Wood and Lumber ROY scon Term Ending 1972 Selectmen FRED C. BLACKMAN WILLIAM L. MERRILL JEANNETTE PERRON Term Ending 1972 J. WILLCOX BROWN Term expires 1970 C. ALLEN FULLER, JR. ERNEST DUGRENIER CARROLL CROSBY ERNEST P. MAXFIELD Term expires 1971 Finance Committee ARCHIE N. GOURLEY Term expires 1972 WILFRED H. MARSHALL Health Officer CHARLES HAYEK Term Ending 1970 Highway Agent ARMAND AUDET Constables CHARLES FROST Term Ending 1970 ALEXANDER COM PAS Term Ending 1970 Overseer of Welfare JULIE WILLIAMS WILFRED H. MARSHALL DONALD TERRILL MICHEL BELANGER FRED BLOMQUIST Term Ending 1971 Collector of Taxes DONALD B. MONTGOMERY DOUGLAS TERRY Term Ending 1971 Sexton s Trustee of Trust Funds RICHARD ANTONIA Term Ending 1971 WARREN SPOFFORD Center Cemetery C. ALLEN FULLER, JR. Term expires 1970 ARTHUR BROUSSEAU East Cemetery MAURICE BARTLETT Term Ending 1972 MARY I. STONE Term expires 1971 WARREN SPOFFORD North Cemetery EINAR CARLSON Term Ending 1972 MARTHA IRIANA Term expires 1972 PAUL MORIN Term Ending 1972 Fence Viewers Trustees of the Library Planning Board LINCOLN W. BURNHAM ARCHIE M. GOURLEY IRENE THALHEIMER MARGARET PATRICK ERNEST DUGRENIER RALPH C. WALKER OCTAVE DULUDE Term Ending 1970 JEANNETTE PERRON JOHN GRAVAS Term Ending 1971 Hog Reeves Librarian MURIEL SOWLE RANDALL RAYMOND Term Ending 1972 MARK MORGAN FLOYD WALKER Auditors SIMON AUDET Term Ending 1973 JULIA BLANCHARD JOSEPH DEBSKI Building Inspector SIDNEY FLANDERS MAYNARDHILL, JR. Term Ending 1974 MARY BRUZGA Term ending 1975 ARTICLE 8. Acceptance of motion by J. Willcox Brown for raising RECORD OF ANNUAL TOWN MEETING and appropriating S600 for Town Poor, S500 for De- pendent Soldiers and SI 500 for Old Age was assured by a majority vote. Dunbarton, N. H. March 11, 1969 Town Officers' Salaries 4,000 ARTICLE 9. Meeting called to order by the Moderator, Arthur Powell, Town Officer's Expenses 2,100 The amount of Motor Vehicle Fees for 1968, S8891.68, at two o'clock in the afternoon. The check list was posted Election & Registration 300 was appropriated for tar for our Class V and/or T.R.A. and the polls opened for balloting. The Moderator Town Hall & Other Buildings 2,000 Roads on motion of Ernest Maxfield. stated that he would not read the warrant at this time. Police Dept. 1,000 Motion by Eli N. Noyes 'that the polls remain open Fire Dept. 2,500 ARTICLE 10. till at least 7:30 pm'. Health 10 SI5 was raised and appropriated for Memorial Day Vital Statistics 25 after motion was placed by Eli Noyes. Said amount The meeting was again called to order at 7 pm and Town Dump 900 to be turned over to the American Legion. the warrant read by the Moderator. Street Lights 250 Interest on Loans 450 SI3,535.00 ARTICLE 11. Moderator's Ruling - all articles to be taken up in the S900 was raised and appropriated on motion of Irene order of their printing and no articles passed over. ARTICLE 3. Thalheimer for the Library. This represented an increase Backing Eli N. Noyes' motion, SI 500 was raised and over last year of S200 to enable more open hours. ARTICLE 1. appropriated for General Highway Expense. The following were named in open meeting: ARTICLE 12. Town Forest Committee - Joseph Sowle for five years. ARTICLE 4. The sum of S600 was raised and appropriated for care Health Officer - Wilfred H. Marshall. S5000 was raised and appropriated for Summer Main- of the cemeteries, on passage of motion by J. Willcox Constables - Wilfred H. Marshall, Donald Terrill, Mi- tenance - S3000 for Regular Maintenance and S2000 Brown. Division of said amount follows:- S200 for chel Belanger. for New Construction. Motion by Ernest Maxfield. Center, SI 00 for North, S75 for East and S225 for Sextons - Center & North, Warren Spofford - East, General Maintenance. Arthur Brousseau. ARTICLE 5. ARTICLE 13. Surveyors of Wood & Lumber - Fred C. Blackman, S7000 was raised and appropriated for Winter Main- The amount of Sill was raised and appropriated as C. Allen Fuller Jr., William L. Merrill, Ernest Du- tenance on motion of J. Willcox Brown. Amendment a subsidy to the Concord Hospital. Motion placed by grenier, Carroll Crosby. by John Swindlehurst for S8500 was defeated. Ernest Maxfield. Fence Viewers - Ralph Walker, L. W. Burnham, Ernest ARTICLE 14. Dugrenier, Archie Gourley. ARTICLE 6. The Capital Reserve for Town Equipment was swelled Auditors - Joseph Debski, Julia Blanchard. On TRA Roads, S893.23 was raised and appropriated by SI000 on motion of Eli Noyes to raise and Overseer of the Welfare - Julie Williams. to match the State's S5954.85. Motion by Ernest Max- appropriate the same. Hog Reeves - Mark Morgan, Floyd Walker. field. Polls closed at 7:50 pm. ARTICLE 15. ARTICLE 2. John Swindlehurst's motion to raise and appropriate J. Willcox Brown's motion 'I move the Town raise S331.31 for Fire Hose and Water Holes was amended and appropriate the sum of SI3,535 for defraying ARTICLE 7. by J. Willcox Brown to read Fire Hose. Amendment Town Charges for the ensuing Year' passed. Follow- Motion to raise and appropriate the sum of S70 for was withdrawn after question regarding legality was ing is a list of allocations and amounts:- Blister Rust Control by Eli Noyes, passed. raised by Eli Noyes. Motion passed as offered. 5 ARTICLE 16. ARTICLE 23. ARTICLE 30. On motion by J. Willcox Brown, it was voted to with- This article was declared illegal by the Tax Commission It was voted to withdraw the interest of $582.90 from draw the sum of SI93 from the Capital Reserve for and therefore was deleted.