TOWN MEETING WARRANT
SB2
TOWN OF WINCHESTER
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
To the inhabitants of the Town of Winchester, in the County of Cheshire in said state, qualified to
vote in Town affairs:
You are hereby notified to meet in the Town Hall in said Winchester on Saturday the 5th of February next 2011 at nine o’clock in the forenoon to discuss, debate and amend warrant articles # 1 through #15 and to receive the reports of the selectmen, town treasurer and other town officers including the agents and committees, and act thereon. Final vote will be by the official ballot on Tuesday, March 8, 2011.
You are hereby notified to meet in the Town Hall in said Winchester on Tuesday, the 8th of March next 2011 at eight o’clock in the forenoon to act upon the following subjects. The Polls not to close an hour earlier than seven of the clock in the afternoon.
ARTICLE 1. To choose all necessary Town Officers for the ensuing year.
ARTICLE 2. Shall the Town of Winchester raise and appropriate as an operating budget, not including appropriations by special warrant articles and other appropriations voted separately, the amounts set forth on the budget posted with the warrant or as amended by vote of the first session, for the purposes set forth therein, totaling $3,531,111? Should this article be defeated, the default budget shall be $3,553,602 which is the same as last year, with certain adjustments required by previous action of the Town of Winchester or by law or the governing body may hold one special meeting, in accordance with RSA 40:13, X and XVI, to take up the issue of a revised operating budget only.
Recommended by the Board of Selectmen 4-0
Recommended by the Budget Committee 9-1
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate up to $100,000 to be used to continue with the reconstruction of Old Westport Road.
Recommended by the Board of Selectmen 5-0
Recommended by the Budget Committee 7-3
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $28,450.00 to be placed in the Capital Reserve Fund established under Article 16 at the 2006 Town Meeting for the purpose of performing the assessing update or revaluation of the real estate in the Town of Winchester scheduled for 2014-2015.
Recommended by the Board of Selectmen 5-0
Recommended by the Budget Committee 10-0
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $10,000 for the Town’s share of State road grant reconstruction costs for bridges and place it in the non-lapsing Capital Reserve Fund established at the March 2006 Town Meeting under Article 19 for that purpose.
Recommended by the Board of Selectmen 5-0
Recommended by the Budget Committee 9-1
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $6,000 to support the annual Pickle Festival.
Recommended by the Board of Selectmen 4-1
Recommended by the Budget Committee 8-1, 1 abstention
ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate an amount not to exceed $18,000 to be deposited in the Evergreen Expendable General Care Trust Fund established by an affirmative vote by the 1998 Town Meeting as Article 11; the source of these funds to be withdrawn from the surplus generated by the perpetual care funds already established for the care and maintenance of lots within the Evergreen cemetery, and not from taxation.
Recommended by the Board of Selectmen 5-0
Recommended by the Budget Committee 10-0
ARTICLE 8. Shall the Town modify the provisions of RSA 72:37-b, Exemption for the Disabled from property tax, based on assessed value for qualified taxpayers to be $15,000? To qualify, the person must have been a New Hampshire resident for at least 3 years, own the real estate individually or jointly, or if the real estate is owned by such person’s spouse, they must have been married for at least 5 consecutive years. In addition, the taxpayer must have a net income of not more than $22,700 or if married, a combined net income of not more than $30,000, and own net assets not in excess of $50,000 (excluding the value of the person’s residential real estate up to 2 acres).
Recommended by the Board of Selectmen 3-0
ARTICLE 9. Shall the Town modify the Elderly Exemption from property tax in the town of Winchester, based on assessed value, for qualified taxpayers, to be as follows: for a person 65 years of age up through 74 years, $20,000; for a person 75 years of age up through 79 years, $30,000; for a person 80 years of age or older, $60,000. To qualify, the person must have been a New Hampshire resident for at least 3 years, own the real estate individually or jointly, or if the real estate is owned by such person’s spouse, they must have been married for at least 5 years. In addition, the taxpayer must have a net income of not more than $22,700 or, if married, a combined net income of less than $30,000, and own net assets not in excess of $50,000 (excluding the value of the person’s residential real estate up to 2 acres).
Recommended by the Board of Selectmen 3-0
ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $9,200 to be used for repairing and painting the interior of the Conant Library, plus stripping, cleaning and poly-coating the Exterior Doors.
*Note: The Building is the Sole Property of the Town of Winchester and the contents are under the Governing body of the Conant Library Trustees.
Inserted by Petition
Not recommended by the Board of Selectmen 4-0
Not recommended by the Budget Committee 8-2
ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the purpose of subsidizing youth recreation in the Town of Winchester to be paid to the E.L.M. Memorial Community Center on a contractual basis.
Inserted by Petition
Recommended by the Board of Selectmen 3-0, 1 abstention
Recommended by the Budget Committee 8-2
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000 to be given to the Winchester Historical Society for the purpose of operating and maintaining the Sheridan House so that this museum may continue to preserve the history of Winchester for the benefit of the public.
Inserted by Petition
Recommended by the Board of Selectmen 3-1
Recommended by the Budget Committee 10-0
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 (two thousand dollars) to support the operation of the Boat Ramp at Forest Lake.
Inserted by Petition
Recommended by the Board of Selectmen 4-0
Recommended by the Budget Committee 9-1
ARTICLE 14. Are you in favor of the adoption of amendment #1 as submitted by the Board of Selectmen? To amend Article II, the Winchester Zoning District Map, to rezone properties of Map 6, lots 15,16,17, & 20 from residential and agricultural districts to commercial district. This is to provide the Town the opportunity to market these Town owned properties for commercial ventures.
Recommended by the Planning Board
ARTICLE 15. Are you in favor of the adoption of amendment #2 as proposed by the Planning Board? To amend Article XXII, Table of Usage, Section K,2, Keeping of Livestock. In the Commercial and Highway Commercial Districts, change from NP (not permitted) to SE (Special Exception). And * &**, omit the wording of “Cheshire County Extension Service” and replace with “NH Agricultural Best Management Practices and the UNH Housing and Space Guidelines for Livestock”.
Note: The * & ** refer to two footnotes in the Zoning Ordinance.
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By the way, Article 14 fails to mention that the "Planning Board Recommends 4-3"
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