Grantham petitioned article
Grantham residents: please attend our town meeting on March 10 in the Town Hall at 5:30 p.m. to participate in important decisions about our town. There is a citizen petition asking the New Hampshire Legislature to provide state revenues for essential services and to avoid policies that shift costs onto local property owners. Property taxes increasingly pay for education, healthcare, county nursing homes, public safety, and local infrastructure. These shifts from State funding place heavy burdens on working families, strain municipal budgets and undermine long-term community prosperity.
If the State government adhered to its constitutional, court-ordered responsibility to fund an adequate public education for all New Hampshire children, Grantham would have more than $1 million added to its tax base.
Infrastructure is being neglected. The state has not adequately maintained Old Route 10, a heavily travelled road in North Grantham. Commuters face increased vehicle repair costs as a result.
A state budget that avoids downshifting and restores municipal revenue-sharing would ease pressure on property taxpayers and strengthen not just Grantham, but all New Hampshire communities.