SUMMARY ANNUAL TOWN MEETING

MARCH 13, 2007

ARTICLE 1 - Election of Officers.  Selectman Allan Carr, Trustee of Trust Funds Jeffrey A Gilman, Library Trustee Michael Nadeau, Emmons Smith Fund John Brooks, Cemetery Trustee Royce Hutchinson, Col Town Spending Committee (1 year) Michael H Foster, Jackie Schanlaber, Col Town Spending Committee (3 year) Sue Chancey, Andrew Cliche, Jeannine LaBounty, Budget Committee (1 year) Barry Crawford, Dennis Merrow Budget Committee (3 year) Allvin Leonard, Leon H Rideout, Dana Southworth, Col Town Investment Committee Jeffrey A Gilman.

ARTICLE 2 - $172,500 to Capital Reserve Fund accounts.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 3 - $80,000 to purchase a loader for the Transfer Station.  $40,000 to come from the general fund balance (surplus) and $40,000  to come from the Motor Vehicle Waste Fund.   Article passed.

ARTICLE 4 - To accept a gift of property from F. B Spaulding & Co  consisting of a main sewer line.   Article passed.

ARTICLE 5 - To accept a gift of property from Prasant and Uday Patel consisting of a main sewer line and several sewer laterals.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 6 - $1,000 to purchase or to acquire by eminent domain a permanent easement and a temporary construction easement from Boston and Maine Corp (tax Map P5, Lot 59- adjacent to Depot St)  to reconstruct a stone box culvert.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 7 - To change the purpose of the "Portland Street Water Improvement Capital Reserve Fund.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 8 - $125,000 from capital reserve fund for water system improvements.   Article passed.

ARTICLE 9 - $40,000 from Bridge Replacement Capital Reserve Fund for design, planning, permitting and construction of the Arthur White Bridge.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 10 - To establish a Transfer Station Revolving Fund.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 11 - To establish a Cemetery Capital Reserve Fund  and appropriate $5,000 to be added to this fund.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 12 - $24,000 for paving for the Transfer Station.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 13 - $20,000 to purchase a generator for the Main Street Sewer Pumping Station with $14,000 to come from the Sanitation Equip Capital Reserve Fund and $6,000 to come from 2007 sewer revenues.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 14 - To discontinue the following capital reserve funds: Oil Tank Removal, Mt. Carberry Closure and Weeks Library Building Fund.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 15 - $1,500 for support of the Tri-Town Public Transit Route.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 16 - $1,600 for support of the Senior Wheels Demand Response Program.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 17 - $4,000 for support of the Tri-County Community Action Program office in Lancaster.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 18 - $3,520 for support of the Caleb Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 19 - $4,500 for support of North Country Senior Meals Program.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 20 - $2,460 for support of the Mt. Washington Regional Airport.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 21 - $5,805  for support of the Northern Human Services/White Mountain Mental Health.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 22 - $1,640 for support of the Northern Gateway Chamber of Commerce.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 23 - To authorize the sale of Town owned property at 644 Elm Street (Tax Map R21, Lot 15).  Article passed.

ARTICLE 24 - To support the actions of the President and Congress to address the issue of climate change.  Article passed.

ARTICLE 25 - To charge the Selectmen, Town Manager and Emergency Management Director to design, test and make ready a )Pandemic Influenza Action Plan specific to the Town of Lancaster (by petition).  Article failed.

ARTICLE 26 - To discontinue fluoridation of the town drinking water (by petition).  Article was passed over.

ARTICLE 27 - To raise and appropriate $4,297,611 which represents the operating budget.  Article passed.