Annual report of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire

ARTICLE 21
To see if the Town will vote to adopt the provisions of RSA
76:15-a thereby establishing a Semi-Annual Collection of Taxes in the
Town of Hampton.
ARTICLE 22
On petition of Arthur J. Moody and 24 or more other legal voters,
to see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town to borrow in
anticipation of property taxes for the Hampton Beach Village District's
budget and charge that voluntary special taxing district the
proportionate share of the expense incurred by the Town's budget, as
authorized by RSA 33:7-IV, in order that Town Meeting voters will no
longer be taxed for the cost of borrowing funds for a district's budget
over which they have no control, as to either amount or purposes of
appropriation, and thus end the taxation without representation
situation which cost the Town budget about $17,000 in 1990 and about
$12,000 in 1991, including $750.00 for $30,000 above the amount
authorized by the district's annual meeting to be raised by district
property taxes which was unintentionally turned over to the district in
early June but was not returned to the Town for four months.
ARTICLE 23
On petition of Judith A. Doyle and at least 24 other registered
voters: In accordance with RSA 91-A2, to see if the Town will vote to
require that each Annual Town Meeting and any Special Town Meeting that
may be called between each Annual Town Meeting be recorded in its
entirety on audio tape. Said tapes are to be available for public
inspection at the Town Office during normal business hours and retained
for a period of not less than five years.
The intent of this article is to provide a complete and accurate record
of each Annual and Special Town Meeting.
ARTICLE 24
To see if the Town will vote to rescind by a two-thirds vote the
authorization of the Annual Town meeting in 1972 (Article 4) for the
Board of Selectmen to issue notes or bonds for the planning and design
of secondary sewage treatment facilities, there being $38,000 remaining
in the authorization and the facilities were planned, designed and
constructed in the mid-1970 's.
ARTICLE 25
TO SEE IF THE TOWN will endorse the following proposal by the
Board of Selectmen to plan for the community's Solid Waste Disposal
needs:
(1) Await the decision of the New Hampshire Bureau of Solid Waste
regard to the permit application for a Transfer Station at the
proposed site on Tide Mill Road (this is expected after the March
Town Meeting) , and
(2) Before proceeding further, a Special Town Meeting will be called
and the voters will be given information pertaining to:
(a) Transfer Station costs;
(b) costs for a contractor to design, build, and finance a
Transfer Station;
(c) direct haul costs;
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