Attending: Susan Duncan, Rick Alpers & Bruce Van Derven, Select Board, Bob Veloski, Town Administrator

Absent: Secretary/Assessing Clerk Angela Mahoney

Also in attendance were: Barry Wingate, Police Chief, Bob Gray, Carroll Brown, Sr. William Phinney, Police Commissioners, Corey Johnston, Northpointe Engineering, Steve Favorite, citizen, Jan Laferriere, Planning Board Secretary.

Due to the restriction on time before the Planning Board Meeting, Rick Alpers called the meeting to order at 6:00pm.

Bruce VanDerven made a brief opening statement that there has been no decision made on the location of the proposed new police station and that the top three locations from the Police Land Acquisition Committee are still under consideration. The presentation tonight was only for informational purposes.

Mr. Johnston made a presentation of five different possible locations/designs using the currently town owned land behind the Town Office Building (TOB). Three of the designs included leaving the current TOB in place, one replaced the current TOB with a smaller version, and the last eliminated the current TOB and combined the two buildings into one. The first two plans called for a smaller new building than the last three. The last three were approximately the same size with approximately 9,000 square feet per floor as opposed to total 9,000 feet for both floors of the current TOB. There was considerable discussion over the last three buildings including whether or not the structure could go to a third floor. Police Commissioner Bob Gray stated that as a tax payer it made sense to further study the use of the current land rather than purchase other land and increase the cost. There was discussion over the fact that by using the current land it may serve to shorten the time needed to complete the project. The last three designs also allowed for increased parking at the location. The agreement at the end of the meeting was to further study the use of the current land and bring forward the warrant article for $90,000 (which may be amended on the floor at the town meeting if it is agreed that the current land can be used and that the entire $90,000 is not needed).

The meeting was suspended at 6:55 and moved upstairs.

The meeting reopened at 7:00pm, with:

Susan Duncan, Rick Alpers & Bruce Van Derven, BOS Bob Veloski, TA

Absent: Secretary/Assessing Clerk Angela Mahoney

The order of the warrant articles was discussed. There was considerable discussion and a call to the Town Moderator, Ned Gordon over whether bond articles had to be first on the budget. It was decided that the bond article for the ambulance would go first after the ballot items.

After this the order of the articles was to be:

1 Choose town officers

2 Adopt town manager plan

3 Zoning

4 Zoning

5 Zoning

6 Zoning

7 Zoning

8 Zoning

Mr. Alpers left the meeting at 7:30pm

Ms. Duncan and Mr. VanDerven discussed whether or not to add descriptions of the petitioned articles dealing with RSA 37, 32 and 154 into the annual report. Mr. Veloski was asked to have Ms. Mahoney add copies of the RSA’s into the annual report after the warrant to aid the voters in making a decision.

There was discussion over the progress of the annual report. Ms. Duncan requested a printed copy of the Annual Report as it stands.

Meeting adjourned at 8:30pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Robert Veloski, Town Administrator