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Town of
Board of Selectmen
January 29, 2007
7:00 PM
Selectmen Present:
Russ Pouliot, Robert Moore, John Russo, Shawn O’Neil and Joe Luna.
Others Present: Chris Giordano, Carol Baird, Judy Jervis, Jason Holder and Sheila Johannesen of the Conservation Commission and Jill Fleming-Selectmen’s Clerk.
Selectman
At 7:15 PM Selectman
Selectman
I Old Huntington Hill Road/Route
111 Proposed Intersection
a.
The Town received correspondence from Attorney Battles
to move forward in providing access from
b.
The Board of Selectmen filled out and authorized the
“Application for Driveway Permit” with the understanding that this was not
really a driveway permit. As stated in Attorney
Battles letter, “part of the application process to the Department of
Transportation requires the Town of
Selectman Russo moved and Selectman Luna seconded a motion to authorize Chairman Russ Pouliot to represent the Board of Selectmen and to sign the application for “Application for Driveway Permit” to be forwarded to Attorney Robert Battles. The motion passed unanimously.
II CTAP
a. CTAP Representative Chris Giordano requested the Board of Selectmen approve and sign the Local Government Funding Request from CTAP Discretionary Fund.
b.
CTAP is making funds available to use for a study on
c.
Monies will be made available over the next 3 years to
help the Town of
d. These monies will be paid directly by Rockingham Planning Commission and will not impact the Town’s budgetary process.
III Ambulance Contract
a. Russ Pouliot has spoken with Selectmen in Atkinson and it was stated that the ambulance contract has been sent to Atkinson Town Counsel for review.
b.
The Atkinson voters will vote on a warrant article on
the March ballot that allows the town to enter into a lease agreement with AMR
to use the Atkinson Fire Station as their base of operations to serve the area
towns. Should the proposed warrant article fail,
c. The Board of Selectmen prepared for this contingency by budgeting for the entire year with AMR at $34,000 however the Budget Committee reduced that amount to $31,000 anticipating a refund for the same amount as received in 2006.
IV Warrant Article 2007-35 Regulating Horses and Other Domestic Animals
a. There was a typographical error in this warrant article. The correction of changing “ceasing” to “seizing” has been made.
V Warrant Article 2007-31 Town
Owned Historic Structure Preservation
a. The Town received an e-mail from Curt Springer regarding this warrant article.
b. The RSA cited should be RSA 674:44-d not “b”.
c. The Selectmen dispute Mr. Springer’s contention that “There is no role for the Selectmen”. and his personal request to delete “with approval by the Selectmen but”.
d. The Board stated that the monies in the Heritage Fund and the Conservation Fund can be spent without further meetings of the Town but nothing is said about the Selectmen. The Town had the foresight to include “with approval of the Selectmen” on these warrants for a further check and balance.
e. The Board stated that if any resident wishes to amend this article at Town Meeting, the Town will have legal opinion by that time.
f. Chairman Russ Pouliot voiced his dissatisfaction and disapproval of the Treasurer’s inappropriate statement that she would simply write a check from these accounts if asked without the need of the Board’s approval.
VI Other Issues
a. Town website-Selectman O’Neil discussed the fact that the Town Website was running out of space. It appears that it will be less expensive to purchase a new program rather than adding additional space.
VII Approval of Minutes
Selectman
Selectman O’Neil moved and Selectman Russo seconded a motion to accept the public minutes of 1/22/07 as written. The motion passed unanimously.
At 8:35PM Selectman O’Neil moved and Selectman Luna seconded a motion to adjourn. The motion passed unanimously.
Respectfully
submitted,
Jill S. Fleming
Selectmen’s Clerk