HAVERHILL — The proposed town operating budget of $4.1 million represents a 2.4% increase, excluding $1.77 million in proposed warrant article spending.
If the proposed spending for all the warrant articles is approved by voters, it will result in an estimated tax increase of $3.45 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, or $863 annually for a home assessed at $250,000.
The School Board is proposing a $14.6 million budget for Haverhill Cooperative School District this coming year, which is $281,000 less, or a 1.9% decrease, from the current school year. That would result in a total school tax rate — combined local and state — reduction of $1.06 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, or $265 annually on a home assessed at $250,000.
Voters will have 25 separate articles to weigh on the town side, of which 12 articles call for voters to approve raising and appropriating funding above the town’s proposed operating budget.
The big-ticket items include requesting $635,530 for replacing a failed culvert on Clark Pond Road with a new bridge, $550,000 for reconstruction of French Pond Road, $250,000 to lease a new town grader and $241,500 to perform a safety study at Dean Memorial Airport and to acquire “aviation easements” for Federal Aviation Administration compliance.
But the majority of money to pay for those projects and requests will come from tapping existing fund balances and federal government sources, so that the money to be be raised from taxes to fund the total proposed 2020 town budget would increase only $41,092 from 2019’s actual revenue and is $94,700 less than the amount that was expected to be raised from taxes last year.
In a highly competitive race this year, six candidates are vying for two open seats on the town’s five-member Selectboard.
In addition to current Selectboard members Tom Friel and Fred Garofalo each seeking reelection, former Town Manager Glenn English; Haverhill Planning Board chairman and Piermont police chief Gary Hebert; Woodsville resident and fire department and ambulance squad volunteer Steve Robbins and Haverhill resident Chuck Fenn are all running.
Ballot voting on town and school candidates will be from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, at the James R. Morrill Building in North Haverhill. The floor portion of Town Meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Voting on articles for the Haverhill Cooperative School District will be held at the Haverhill Middle School on Saturday, March 21, beginning at 9 a.m.By JOHN LIPPMAN
HAVERHILL — The proposed town operating budget of $4.1 million represents a 2.4% increase, excluding $1.77 million in proposed warrant article spending.
If the proposed spending for all the warrant articles is approved by voters, it will result in an estimated tax increase of $3.45 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, or $863 annually for a home assessed at $250,000.
The School Board is proposing a $14.6 million budget for Haverhill Cooperative School District this coming year, which is $281,000 less, or a 1.9% decrease, from the current school year. That would result in a total school tax rate — combined local and state — reduction of $1.06 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, or $265 annually on a home assessed at $250,000.
Voters will have 25 separate articles to weigh on the town side, of which 12 articles call for voters to approve raising and appropriating funding above the town’s proposed operating budget.
The big-ticket items include requesting $635,530 for replacing a failed culvert on Clark Pond Road with a new bridge, $550,000 for reconstruction of French Pond Road, $250,000 to lease a new town grader and $241,500 to perform a safety study at Dean Memorial Airport and to acquire “aviation easements” for Federal Aviation Administration compliance.
But the majority of money to pay for those projects and requests will come from tapping existing fund balances and federal government sources, so that the money to be be raised from taxes to fund the total proposed 2020 town budget would increase only $41,092 from 2019’s actual revenue and is $94,700 less than the amount that was expected to be raised from taxes last year.
In a highly competitive race this year, six candidates are vying for two open seats on the town’s five-member Selectboard.
In addition to current Selectboard members Tom Friel and Fred Garofalo each seeking reelection, former Town Manager Glenn English; Haverhill Planning Board chairman and Piermont police chief Gary Hebert; Woodsville resident and fire department and ambulance squad volunteer Steve Robbins and Haverhill resident Chuck Fenn are all running.
Ballot voting on town and school candidates will be from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, at the James R. Morrill Building in North Haverhill. The floor portion of Town Meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Voting on articles for the Haverhill Cooperative School District will be held at the Haverhill Middle School on Saturday, March 21, beginning at 9 a.m.
