Minutes
Selectmen’s Meeting
January 22, 2007
6:30 PM Acting Chair Bock opened the meeting and asked all those present to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
Members Present: Peter Bock, Bill Netishen, and Town Administrator Charles Brown.
Members Absent: Mary Bonser.
Also present: Heidi Seaverns.
Guests: Cheryl Smith, Sam Demeritt, Sue Mooney and William Loconzolo.
Mr. Brown informed the Board that there was no new business from any other departments.
Cheryl Smith and Sue Mooney from the Conservation Commission stepped forward to address the Board. They provided the Board members some handouts that they had requested in regard to the amount of Land Use Change Tax (LUCT) that goes into the Conservation Fund. The Conservation Commission would like to change the amount of LUCT that goes into the Conservation Fund from 50% of LUCT collected with a cap of $ 100,000 to 100% of LUCT monies collected. They have requested that the Board of Selectmen put an article on the warrant for this action. The handouts addressed their rationale for the increase citing 2 projects in the early stage, land in conservation easement does not require services as residential land does and the fact that the commission needs to have money for any future projects. They also provided a handout,
which outlined NH towns and their LUCT allocations, caps (if any) and the year the contributions were enacted. Also included was a survey done by Society for the Protection of NH Forests identifying conservation bonds that were passed (or defeated) at Town Meetings in 2005 & 2006 throughout the State. The commission also provided an outline of the expenses for the three projects that have been completed-Rosenfield & Mallette, Comte & Bacon-for a total cost of $ 229,073.02. Ms. Mooney provided two additional handouts. The first outlined the tax impact if the allocation of the LUCT money is changed to 100%. The second identified the contributions to the Conservation fund and the monies paid out in 2004, 2005 and 2006. There seemed to be some question as to the amount put into the Conservation Fund for the years as well as for 2003. Mr. Brown will verify contributions with the bookkeeper. Discussion followed about the proposed article. Mr. Bock asked if there were any
parcels around the lake that had not been developed. Ms. Mooney stated she thought there were only a few vacant parcels. Both Mr. Bock & Mr. Netishen cited the fact that Ms. Bonser was not in attendance and they were hesitant to vote to endorse the article without her present. Mr. Bock went on to suggest that the Commission put together a petition article and submit it due to the time constraints-the Board does not meet again until February 5th and the deadline for petition articles is February 6th. If the Board did not vote to endorse the article, the Commission would have less than a day to put forward a petition. Ms. Mooney & Ms. Smith thanked the Board for their time and concluded their presentation at 7:15PM.
Mr. Bock recognized William Loconzolo from Indian Run. Mr. Loconzolo stated he hadn’t intended on addressing the Board, he was in attendance to be sure the Board had received the most recent letter from the Indian Run residents. Mr. Brown informed him that the Town Office had received the letter this afternoon and the Board members had received a copy of it this evening at the meeting. Mr. Loconzolo stated that the residents wanted the Board to hold a public hearing on making Indian Run an emergency lane. Discussion followed. Since Ms. Bonser was not in attendance, Mr. Bock stated that the Board would vote at their next meeting on whether to hold a public hearing or not. If the Board decided to hold a public hearing, every effort would be made to have that hearing at the February 20th meeting. Mr. Brown
informed Mr. Loconzolo that the Board would not make a decision at the 20th meeting since they needed written findings before they could decide on whether to grant emergency lane status. Mr. Loconzolo thanked the Board and left at 7:27PM.
The Board next addressed the signature file and signed the Intent to Cut for Map 19 Lot 1.
Mr. Brown gave the Board a copy of the corrected addendum to the Personnel Policy that addresses holiday and vacation time benefit for permanent part time employees. The wording
in the original addendum would have prevented employees from being paid for Monday holidays.
The Board received the annual report from the Trustees of the Trust funds as well as the Recycling Center report for the Town Report.
The next item to be discussed was a memo from Janet Horvath. She has received a request from American Legion Post 90 in Raymond to advertise Bingo that is being held at Post 51 in Epping on the Nottingham Cable Channel. Both Mr. Bock & Mr. Netishen felt that events on the Cable Channel should be from Nottingham only.
Mr. Brown informed the Board that he had received e-mail from the Neighborhood Guardians with a copy of a letter they had sent to Governor Lynch. He also informed the Board that the Guardians had also petitioned Superior Court to rehear their appeal of the ZBA decision.
The Board will act on the outstanding minutes at their next meeting.
The Board then discussed the budget and the warrant. The Board members thought the meeting with the Budget Committee went well. Mr. Brown informed the Board that Mr. Sweeney is preparing a handout with information about the new fire station to get information out to the voters. The Board will finalize the warrant at their next meeting on February 5th.
Mr. Brown informed the Board that he will be meeting with Gary Stanhouse of Primex on Wednesday to discuss what programs they offer-workmen’s compensation, health insurance and the like.
Ms. Seaverns asked the Board when they wanted to hold their next quarterly meeting with the Department Heads. Some discussion followed and the next meeting will be scheduled for March 19th at 1:00PM.
Mr. Netishen brought up GASB 45, which has to do with the accounting of compensated absences and that liability. He referenced the article about this subject in Town & City magazine, which indicated in a town of Nottingham’s size that we would have to be compliant in 2009. Mr. Netishen wants the Board to pursue this issue throughout this year.
7:54 PM Having no further business before the Board,
Motion: Netishen, second Bock to adjourn.
Vote: 2-0 in favor.
Respectfully Submitted,
Heidi Seaverns
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