April 2009 Archives
Per the Town Calendar:
Note: This is a very brief meeting for the Auditors to
present to the Board on the latest accounting standards the
audit firm must follow in the FY 2008 Audit.
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April 22, 2009
For Immediate Release
Contact Information Officer Cissy Taylor
(603) 271-3664
Cissy.taylor@leg.state.nh.us
HOUSE HAS 45-MINUTE SESSION
Hillsborough County Domestic Violence Unit to use space at the Manchester District
Court rent-free.
Senate Bill 25 was one of several bills contained in the Consent Calendar, which
has recommendations that came out of committee with unanimous or nearly unanimous
votes. The House casts one vote on the recommendations for all the bills on the calendar.
The domestic violence unit is currently funded by a grant that does not include a
provision for paying rent. The Legislature must approve any use of state property such as
this. According to supporters of the bill, because the unit is at the court, 80 percent of the
cases are resolved before they go to a judge.
SB 25 and other bills passed today will now go to Gov. John Lynch.
One of the bills on the Consent Calendar is expected to cut costs and save paper in
the House and Senate clerks’ offices by reducing the number of daily journals printed.
The law now requires that 1,200 copies are printed for the House and 1,200 for the
Senate.
SB 138 calls for a “sufficient number” because so many people now access the
journals on-line through the House and Senate web sites.
Among the other bills on the Consent Calendar were:
SB 22, making it a class A misdemeanor for defacing a natural geological
formation that has been declared a natural landmark;
SB 37, which allows a judge to consider where a defendant is the parent and sole
caretaker of a child when setting bond;
SB 176, which establishes an application fee for those on probation or parole who
apply to be supervised in another state;
SB 12, which increases the membership of the board of marital mediator
certification and renaming marital mediators as family mediators;
SB 62, which establishes a commission to study creating a statewide plan for
addressing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in
SB 28, which exempts non-menace dams from the annual dam registration fee as
long as the dams retain non-menace classification. If construction occurs downstream, the
classification could be changed.
On the floor of the House, in a session that took barely 45 minutes today, three
more bills were passed.
SB 155, that consolidates two financial disclosure forms so that legislators would
only have to file one form;
SB 60, which establishes a commission to study water infrastructure sustainability
funding, and
SB 58, allowing Department of Transportation vehicles to use alternate flashing
headlamps. Current law only allows alternate flashing headlamps on emergency vehicles,
such as those used by law enforcement and fire officials.
The next session of the House is scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 29.
NHAC to hold Taxpayer Tea Party with 700 hundred of their closest friends
The Taxpayer Tea Party is a symbolic protest of the tax and spend agenda embodied in the President’s Budget, the omnibus spending bill, and the federal bailouts that have set our nation on the road to financial insolvency. This is also to protest the same tax and spend mentality in
The New Hampshire Advantage Coalition works with grassroots activists across the state on local and state spending issues, and works at the State government level to fight against sales or income tax, the creation of new taxes, and increases in current taxes on New Hampshire Taxpayers.
Who: NHAC, Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers, Granite State Taxpayers, Granite State Patriots, GraniteGrok.com, NH Federation of Republican Women, Manchester GOP, NH Citizens for Leadership, Glenn Beck 9-12 Project NH, NH Reagan Network, NH Liberty Alliance, Americans for Prosperity NH, Americans for Limited Government, National Taxpayers Union, Murphy’s Taproom, NSP Graphics and Portsmouth Tea Company
What: Rally with local speakers, sign contest, non-perishable food drive.
When: April 15th @ 5:30 pm
Where:
Terenzini said. “I’m not convinced that this kind of work fits the bidding process,”...
“I understand Carter’s requesting that we not go out to bid, but for that amount of money, we should go out to bid,” said Selectman Betsey Patten.
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The Meredith News April 9, 2009
SARAH SCHMIDT
MOULTONBORO — The town will be moving forward with a compensation and personnel
system evaluation for town employees this year, but the selectmen decided last week not to put the comparison study out to bid. Town Administrator Carter Terenzini introduced Thornton Associates as the prospective company to perform the evaluation on Moultonboro. Thornton Associates performed similar evaluations, comparing towns, salaries, benefit packages, and policies for Meredith and Wolfeboro. The final price for the evaluation comes to $11,950 and would be complete in three months.Terenzini said that it was cheaper than the offer from the
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To the editor, Laconia Daily Sun
April 7, 2009
Moultonborough government continues to lose transparency and citizen participation with a recent Selectboard decision, starting with the April 9, to start meetings at 7 p.m. Public input will only be allowed at the beginning of the meeting and at the end of the meeting. This procedure will not allow for public discussion of the review and approval process for new business, old business and correspondence
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They already do not read all the correspondence that the public sends every week.
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They already do not have an openmeeting with the public every week.
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They already do not have a meeting every week in the summer.
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They already discourage the public airing of an unedited selectmen’s meeting because of an oppressive and complicated cable TV access policy.
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They already demand 50-cents for copies of documents while the library charges 15-cents.
What’s next, no public input at all?
Al Hume
Moultonborough
Want to speak at this weeks Selectmen Meeting? There will only be a TOTAL of 10 minutes at the beginning and 10 minutes at the end for public comment. Seems they are tired of the same people always asking questions. These are the same few people by the way that show up week after week.
NH law does not require that the public be allowed to speak at Selectmen meetings, but generally most allow an open discussion. The law only requires that the meetings be public.
Better line up for your right to speak this week. Next week it may be gone completely....
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