m TOWN OF SALISBURY ^.%•= Annual Report 1990 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Boston Library Consortium IVIember Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/townofsalisburyn1990sali TABLE OF CONTENTS Town Officers 2 Town Warrant 4 Proposed Budget 1991 8 Supplemental Schedule 12 1990 Expenditures and 1991 Selectmen's Proposals 13 Selectmen's Report 16 Planning Board Report 19 Tax Collector's Report 20 Summary of Tax Sales Accounts 21 Town Clerk's Report 22 Schedule of Town Property 23 Tax Rate Information 23 Auditors' Report 24 Highway Department Report 51 1991 Highway Department Budget Proposals 52 Salisbury Free Library 53 Salisbury Fire Department Report 54 Police Department Report 55 Building Inspector's Report 56 Forest Fire Warden Report 57 Old Home Day Report 58 Central New Hampshire Regional Planning Commission 59 Concord Regional Solid Waste/Resource Recovery Cooperative 61 Salisbury Recycling Committee Report 62 Summary of Rules for Transfer Station 63 Salisbury Rescue Squad Report 65 — Minutes of Town Meeting 1990 67 Vital Statistics 72 TOWN OF SALISBURY TOWN OFFICERS MODERATOR Edward D. Bailey, '91 SELECTMEN Ray Robbins, Sr., '93 Dorothea Lovejoy, '91 Kathleen Downes, '92 AIMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO THE SELECTMEN Margaret I. Warren TOWN CLERK Dora Rapalyea, '91 DEPUTY TOWN CLERK Gayle Landry TAX COLLECTOR Gayle Landry '91 DEPUTY TAX COLLECTOR Pamela Hutchins TREASURER Norma C. Lovejoy, '91 DEPUTY TREASURER Mary Phillips SUPERVISORS OF THE CHECKLIST Claribel Brockstedt, '96 Russell Benedict, '92 Fred Adams, '94** Roy Downes, '91* CHIEF OF POLICE Gary R. Davis FIRE CHIEF Edwin Bowne ROAD AGENT Donald Nixon, '93 LIBRARY TRUSTEES Pamela Hutchins, '93 Patricia McDonough, '91 Sandra Miller, '92 LIBRARIAN Gail Clukay TRUSTEES OF TRUST FUNDS Gudraund Ipsen, '93 Charlotte Hughes, '91 Polly Adams, '92 HEALTH OFFICER Dr. Paul S. Shaw FOREST FIRE WARDEN Dennis Patten : 1990 ANNUAL REPORT BUDGET COMMITTEE Peter lyferkes, '93 Norma C. Lovejoy, '91 David Chamberlin, '92 Sandra Miller, '93 Lawrence Reagen, '91 Charles Haight, '92 Edward Sawyer, '93 Donald Nixon, '91 Kenneth Mailloux, '92 Kathleen Do\mes (Ex officio) PLANNING BOARD Robert Irving, '92 William Lovering, '93 Arthur Schaefer, Jr. '92 William McDuffie, '91 Dorothea Lovejoy (Ex officio) Alternates Gale Greiner Mary Heath ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT Carolyn Wade, '93 Irene Plourde, '91 Dennis Melchin, '92 Mark Hutchins, '93 John Bentley, *9l Alternates Steven Preston Charles Bristol Paul Brundrett OVERSEER OF PUBLIC WELFARE Board of Selectmen BUILDING INSPECTOR Daisy Dunham DEPUTY BUILDING INSPECTOR William Lovering RECREATION COMMITTEE (To be elected) CONSERVATION COMMISSION Douglas Greiner Gale Greiner Louise Andrus Mark Chamberlin Andrew Thompson RECYCLING COMMITTEE Peg Boyles, Chairman Ted Sprague Susan Burkhardt, Secretary Dennis Stewart Donna Bourbeau Doug Teel Norma Lovejoy Robert Underhill Dorothea Lovejoy Sharon Nicosia * Appointed ** Resigned TOWN OF SALISBURY WARRANT FOR THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING THE POLLS WILL BE OPEN FROM 1:00 PM to 7:30 PM ABSENTEE BALLOTS WILL BE PROCESSED AND CAST AT 3:00 PM BUSINESS MEETING AT 7:30 PM To the Inhabitants of the Town of Salisbury, in the County of Merrimack, in the State of New Hampshire, qualified to vote in Town affairs: You are hereby notified to meet at the Town Hall in Salisbury on Tuesday, the 12th day of March, 1991 at one o'clock in the afternoon to act upon the following subjects by ballot: 1. To choose all necessary Town Officers for the ensuing year. 2. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the provisions of RSA 466:30-a which makes it unlawful for any dog to run at large, except when accompanied by the owner or custodian, and when used for hunting, herding, supervised competition & exhibition or training for such. (By Official Ballot) And to act upon the following subjects at the Business Meeting at 7:30 PM. 3. To hear the reports of the Officers of the Town, agents, auditors and committees appointed and pass any vote relating thereto. 4. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) to be added to the Emergency Services Equipment Capital Reserve Fund, established in 1987. 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) to be added to the Highway Equipment Capital Reserve Fund, established in 1971. 6. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of twenty-two hundred dollars ($2,200) for the purchase of a wing and to authorize the withdrawal of the twenty-two hundred dollars ($2,200) from the Highway Capital Reserve Fund for that purpose. 1990 ANNUAL REPORT 5 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) to be added to the Recreational Facilities Capital Reserve Fund, established in 1987. 8. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for the general maintenance of Town cemeteries and to authorize the transfer of one thousaud dollars ($1,000) from the Cemetery Trust Funds for that purpose. 9. To see if the Town will vote to designate the Board of Selectmen a^ agents to expend funds from the Road Maintenance Capital Reserve Fund as approved under Article 17 at Town Meeting, March 12, 1985, pursuant to RSA 35:15 for the Blackwaiter Flood Control Reservoir, established at Town Meeting, March 8, 1949 under Article 22. 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of six thousand three hundred and fifty dollars ($6,350) ($3,175 to be raised by taxation, the remainder to be matched by a $3,175 grant from the Governor's Recycling Grants Program), for the purpose of constructing a recycling facility at the Salisbury Transfer Station. This appropriation is contingent upon actual receipt of the State's share. The recycling facility will consist of a trailer for storing and transporting recyclable materials and a stationary deposit area where the public will deposit recyclable materials. 11. To see if the Town will vote by ballot on the following question: Shall we adopt Optional Adjusted Elderly Exemptions from property tax? The optional exemptions, based on assessed value, for qualified taxpayers shall be as follows: for a person 65 years of age up to 75 years, $5,000; for a person 75 years of age up to 80 years, $10,000; for a person 80 years of age or older, $20,000. To qualify, the person must have been a New Hampshire resident for at least five (5) years; own the real estate individually or jointly, or if the real estate is owned by his spouse, they must have been married for at least five (5) years. In addition, the taxpayer must have a net income of less than $10,000 or, if married, a combined net income of less than $12,000; and own net assets not in excess of $75,000 excluding the value of the person's residence. (By Ballot) 6 TOWN OF SALISBURY 12. To see if the Town will vote to accept the budget as presented by the Budget Committee and to raise and appropriate such sums as may be necessary to defray Town charges for the ensuing year, or to pass any vote relating thereto. 13. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen and Treasurer to borrow money on the notes of the Town in anticipation of taxes, pursuant to RSA 33:7. 14. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to make application for, to accept, and to expend on behalf of the Town, any and all advances, grants or other funds, gifts or contributions, which may now or hereafter be forthcoming from the United States of America, the State of New Hampshire, any Federal or State agency, or any private gift or contribution in accordance with RSA 31:95-b. 15. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to transfer tax liens acquired by the Town at a Tax Collector's sale or to convey title to real estate acquired pursuant to a Tax Collector's deed by public auction, sealed bid or in such other manner as the Selectmen may determine as justice may require, pursuant to RSA 80:42. 16. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell Town property with a value under twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500). . 17. To transact any other business that may legally come before this meeting. GIVEN UNDER OUR HANDS & SEAL, THIS 18th DAY OF February 1991 /^-^v/f^ Dorothea Lovejoy, Chairmarr /