Select Board Public Hearing
Address
TOWN OF LYME
Selectboard
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The Selectboard will be holding a public hearing to review and discuss the following warrant articles for consideration at 2017 Town Meeting
Milfoil Treatment for Post Pond:
ARTICLE To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of twenty-eight thousand eight hundred forty-one dollars ($28,841) for milfoil treatment of Post Pond, to be funded 30% (up to $8,652.00) through a grant from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, with the remaining 70% (up to $20,189.00) by authorizing the withdrawal of ten thousand six hundred two dollars ($10,602.00) from the unreserved fund balance and nine thousand five hundred eighty-seven dollars ($9,587.00) to be raised by taxes. to be raised by taxation. This will be a non-lapsing appropriation per RSA 32:7, VI and will not lapse until the milfoil problem is resolved or by December 31, 2022, whichever is sooner.
Land Use Change Tax:
ARTICLE To see if the Town will vote pursuant to RSA 79-A:25 to rescind the 1993 vote that directed that one hundred (100) percent of funds collected through the Land Use Change Tax be deposited in the Conservation Fund, and further to vote instead to deposit fifty (50) percent of the Land Use Change Tax revenue into the Conservation Fund and fifty (50) percent into the General Fund to defray other Town expenses.
Establish a Capital Reserve Fund for Municipal Transportation Improvements:
ARTICLE To see if the Town will vote to adopt the provisions of NH RSA 261:153 (VI) to levy an additional motor vehicle registration fee in the amount of five dollars ($5.00) to be used to support a municipal transportation improvement fund. And to further provide that with the adoption of this article the town shall create a Capital Reserve Fund pursuant to RSA Chapter 35 to be known as the Municipal Transportation Capital Reserve Fund, said fund to be used to fund, wholly or in part, improvements in the local or regional transportation system including roads, bridges, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, parking and intermodal facilities and public transportation. The funds may be used for engineering, right-of-way acquisition, and construction costs of transportation facilities, and for operating and capital costs of public transportation only. The funds may be used as matching funds for state or federal funds allocated for local or regional transportation improvements. Such funds shall not be used to offset any other non-transportation appropriations made by the municipality. And to further name the Select Board as agents to expend this Capital Reserve Fund.
This Public Hearing will be held:
Thursday February 16th, 2017
9:00 AM
Lyme Town Office Building Conference room located at
1 High Street Lyme NH