ANNUAL REPORT CONWAY NEW HAMPSHIRE 1990 Town Manager, Curtis H. hunt Town employees sort materials at the Recycling Center. Plastic granulatorat right. COVERPHOTO:HonorRollofWorld WarUVeterans CourtesyofLois Seabury & American Legion Post U46. ANNUAL REPORT of the Town Officers of the of CONWAY New Hampshire For the Fiscal Year Ending December 31 1990 SMITH&TOWN PRINTERS Berlin,New Hampshire Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from Boston Library Consortium IVIember Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/conwaynewhampshi1990conw Town ofConway, N.H. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Town Officers 4 Selectmen's Report 7 ConwayTown Warrant 8 BudgetoftheTown ofConway 18 Revenues 20 1991 Special Articles 22 1991 Budget(Detailed) 23 Police BudgetReport 30 Comparative Statement ofRevenues 1990 32 StatementofChanges in Fund Balance 33 Comparative Statement ofAppropriations & Expenditures 34 . . Treasurer's Report 37 Cash Receipts - 1990 39 General LongTerm DebtAccount 46 Accountants & Auditors Report 48 Town Clerk's Report 49 Summary ofWarrants 50 Tax Lien Accounts 52 Schedule ofTown Property 54 Special Tax Assessing Report 56 Assessor's Report 57 Town Manager's Report 58 Town Planner's Report 59 Reportfrom the ChiefofPolice 60 Conway Police Dept. RequestforPolice Services 61 Police Commissioner's Report 63 ReportofPublic Works Department 64 Board ofAdjustmentReport 67 Conway Planning Board 68 Report ofLibraryTrustees 69 Reportofthe LibraryTreasurer 71 ReportofConway Conservation Commission 73 ReportofTown Parks & Recreation Dept 75 ReportofNorth Conway Community Center 77 Report ofTown Forest Fire Warden & State ForestRanger...78 ReportofTrust& Capital Reserve Funds 79 Town ofConway, N.H. TOWN OF CONWAY TOWN OFFICERS 1990 SELECTMEN Raymond E. Leavitt, Jr. Cynthia B. Briggs Harvey C. Blake Town ofConway, N.H. SUPERVISORS OF CHECKLIST Wanda Snow Town ofConway, N.H. BOARD OFADJUSTMENT Town ofConway, N.H. REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN Weareheretoserveyou. Youelectedustoprovideyouwithgood adviceatTownMeetingsandtoseethattheTowniswellmanaged duringthecourseoftheyear. Thatisnotalwaysaneasytask. But wetakethejobseriouslyandgiveitourbest.WemeeteachTuesday at9:30 a.m. andourfirsthalfhourisopentounscheduledvisitsby anyonewithaproblemoracomplaint.Wetryveryhardtolistento thecommunity. We want Town services to be both good and affordable. It is difficult to draw the line on how much is affordable or to set priorities,butwemust.Astimesgettougherwemustworktogether morethanever. Weareproudofbothourunionandournonunion employees who accepted a wagefreezefor 1991. Taxes went down in 1990 by $.10 per thousand, due to our restraint. That may not seem like much, but it reversed a long upward trend. TheBoardworkedonmanyprojectsin 1990,butnonewasmore satisfactory than the reaction to the Swift River Covered Bridge. The Special Town Meeting support was great, and the outpouring of money and support by many private citizens was truly over- whelming. Thank you foryourcommunity spirit. The many fine unpaid members ofour Boards and Committees keepoursagovernmentbythepeopleanddeserveourgratitude.In addition to their normal Selectmen duties, Raymond Leavitt, Jr., stepped forward to organize local economic development efforts and chairs the Fire Advisory Committee, and Cynthia Briggs serves on the Highway Advisory Task Force and the Planning Board. Ithasbeenmypleasuretohaveservedyouthepast3yearsandI thank you foryour support. Sincerely, HARVEY C. BLAKE, Chairman Board ofSelectmen Town ofConway, N.H. CONWAY TOWN WARRANT STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE TOTHEINHABITANTSOFTHETOWNOFCONWAY,County ofCarroll,intheStateofNewHampshire,qualifiedtovoteinTown Affairs: You are hereby notified to meet at the Karl Seidenstuecker AuditoriumatKennettHighSchool, Conway,NewHampshire,on Tuesday, the twelfth day of March, 1991, at nine o'clock in the forenoon to act upon the following subjects hereinafter set forth. Voting on Articles 1 through 16 will beby official ballot, and the polls shall open forballoting at nine o'clockin theforenoon oras soon thereafter as the Moderator calls the meeting to order and declares a quorum present. Theremaining articles oftheWarrant shallbeacteduponatseveno'clockintheeveningorattheclosing ofthepollsifthemeetingshallvotetokeepthepollsopentoalater hour. ARTICLE 1. To choose all necessary officers. ARTICLE 2. To see whether or not theTown will voteto adopt AmendmentNo. 1 asproposedandrecommendedbythePlanning Board for the Town Zoning Ordinance amending provisions of Conway Code 147-11.1 and 147-24 by modifying the regulations andtheShorelineProtectionDistrictboundariesalongPequawket Pond. ARTICLE 3. To see whether or nottheTown will vote to adopt AmendmentNo.2asproposedandrecommendedbythePlanning Board for the Town Zoning Ordinance amending provisions of Conway Code 147-4, 147-6, 147-11.B(3), 147-15.E, and 147-11.l.B(4) byconsolidatingandmodifyingtheprovisionsofthecodepertain- ing to non-conforming uses, lots and structures into one Code Section 147-4. ARTICLE 4. To see whether or not theTown will vote to adopt AmendmentNo. 3asproposedandrecommendedbythePlanning Board for the Town Zoning Ordinance amending provisions of Conway Code 147-12.A by correcting a typographical mistake in the Commercial Home Occupations regulations. ARTICLE 5. To see whether or not theTown will voteto adopt AmendmentNo. 4 asproposedandrecommendedbythePlanning Board for the Town Zoning Ordinance amending provisions of Conway Code 147-13.D by clarifving the text to provide for two separate special exceptions within the Wetlands Conservation District.