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.