Affirmative Action Taken At Prior Town Meetings
1973 Town Meeting Article #48
Provided indemnification for Town Officers and employees.
1994 Town Meeting Article #3
Ballot vote: Shall we adopt an exemption for the totally and permanently disabled?
Motion made and passed.
1994 Town Meeting Article #30
Authorize the Board of Selectmen to accept gifts of personal property pursuant to RSA 31:95-e. Until rescinded.
1994 Town Meeting Article #31
Authorize the Selectmen to convey any real estate acquired by the Town by Tax Collector’s deed, pursuant to RSA 80:80. Until rescinded.
1994 Town Meeting Article #33
Accept the provision of RSA 33:7 until specific rescission of such authority, the Selectmen to issue tax anticipation notes.
1995 Town Meeting Article #5
Library to retain all money it receives from its income-generating equipment to be used for general repairs, etc. Until rescinded. (RSA 202.A:11, 11-b)
1995 Town Meeting #24
Voted to discontinue absolutely that portion of Spring Street commencing one hundred and fifty feet (150’) above the present driveway to the residence of Robert and Kelly Lemieux to the intersection of Titus Hill road.
1995 Town Meeting Article #25
Authorize the Board of Selectmen to apply for, accept and expend money from the State, Federal or other Governmental unit or a private source, until rescinded.
1995 Town Meeting Article #26
Authorize the Board of Selectmen to accept, gifts, legacies, and devises, until rescinded.
1996 Town Meeting Article #3
Adopted and increased the Veteran’s tax credit from $50.00 to $100.00
1997 Town Meeting Article #16
Adopt the provisions of RSA 202-A: 4-d, authorizing Library Trustees to accept gifts of personal property, other than money.
1997 Town Meeting Article #19
Maintain and plow, Munn Road.
1998 Town Meeting Article #26
Allow Tax Collector to accept the pre-payment of taxes pursuant to RSA 80:1-a.
1999 Town Meeting Article #11
Adopt the provisions of RSA 31:95-c to restrict year-end surpluses of revenue from the Colebrook Dispatch Center to expenditures for the purpose of Dispatch Center. Such revenues and expenditures shall be accounted for in a special revenue fund to be known as the Colebrook Dispatch Center Reserve Fund, separate from the General Fund. Any surplus in said fund shall not be deemed part of the General Fund accumulated surplus and shall be expended only after a vote by the legislative body for a specific purpose of the fund of source of the revenue.
1999 Town Meeting Article #14
Authorize separation of the Special Equipment Capital Reserve Fund: police cruiser and
highway equipment.
1999 Town Meeting Article #27
Discontinue and release from public servitude the section of road previously the Old Route
3 from Piper Hill Road, South to the present Route 3.
2000 Town Meeting Article #7
Establish Colebrook Village Cemetery Fence Expendable Trust Fund.
2000 Town Meeting Article #20
Establish a Main Street (Route 3) Reconstruction Expendable Trust Fund.
2000 Town Meeting Article #33
Delegate to the Board of Selectmen the authority to accept dedicated streets, until rescinded by a future vote of the Town Meeting. (RSA 674:40-a).
2000 Town Meeting Article #34
Accept the road known as Missing Link Way, as shown on Plan 99-78, as a class VI Town Road which, the Town has no obligation to maintain.
2000 Town Meeting Article #36
Prohibit the sale of MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether) in the Town of Colebrook.
2001 Town Meeting Article #3
Change the term of the Town Clerk to three (3) years.
2001 Town Meeting Article #4
Change the term of the Town Treasurer to three (3) years.
2001 Town Meeting Article #39
To exchange the 50’ wide right-of-way at the South end of Bouchard’s Apparel building (Tax Map U-12 Lot 7) for a right-of-way through a reinforced concrete pipe conduit to be installed, built and located to Town specifications by and at the expense of the owners of the Bouchard property. The exchange will also include a 25’ right-of-way granted to the Town by the owners of the property from the East or Route 3 end of the conduit around the South end of any proposed building to access the West end of the Conduit.
2001 Town Meeting Article #41
Accept Bill Bromage Drive, so-called, as a Class V highway.
2002 Town Meeting Article #6
Establish a Colebrook Property Reassessment Expendable Trust Fund.
2002 Town Meeting Article #43
Discontinue portions of Couture Street, and to convey such title as the Town may have in
those triangular portions to the abutting landowners.
2002 Town Meeting Article #44
Authorize the Board of Selectmen to accept two (2) triangular shaped land parcels of Couture Street conveyed from North Country Realty Trust and Norman and Amy Brooks.
2002 Town Meeting Article #45
Charge a fee for items and/or material disposed of at the Town of Colebrook Transfer Station by any person, company or organization generating such waste because of a business or professional activity.
2002 Town Meeting Article #47
Prohibit Smoking in Restaurants. (By petition) (Later repealed by Superior Court).
2002 Town Meeting Article #48
Authorize the Selectmen as agents to withdraw funds from the Sanitary Landfill Closure
Fund. Until rescinded.
2003 Town Meeting Article #4
Adopt provisions of Senate Bill 76 authorizing new construction property tax exemption.
2003 Town Meeting Article #39
List the Selectmen as agents for the Bridge Fund, Highway and Police Cruiser Equipment Purchasing fund. Until rescinded.
2003 Town Meeting Article #41
Authorize the Selectmen to convey ownership of the Industrial Building to the Colebrook Development Corporation.
2003 Town Meeting Article #42
Authorize the Selectmen to accept conveyance of lot #4A (Sewer pump house).
2003 Town Meeting Article #44
Authorize the Selectmen to deed Nugent Spring Street Property to Colebrook Downtown Development Association.
2003 Town Meeting Article #45
Authorize the Cemetery Trustees to apply for, accept and expend without further action by Town Meeting, money from the State, Federal or other Governmental unit or a private source which, becomes available during the year, in accordance with RSA 31:95-b, until rescinded.
2004 Town Meeting Article #12
Authorize the Cemetery Trustees as agents to expend from the Colebrook Cemetery Fence Maintenance and Repair Fund.
2004 Town Meeting Article #30
Authorize the Public Library Trustees to apply for, accept and expend, without further action by the Town meeting, unanticipated money from a state, federal or other governmental unit or a private source which becomes available during the fiscal year, in accordance with RSA 202-A:4-c, until rescinded.
2005 Town Meeting Article #3
Authorize the Selectmen to enter into five-year purchase agreement for a Plow Truck. This agreement does contain an escape clause.
2005 Town Meeting Article #5
Expendable Trust Fund created for the purpose of Digital Tax Mapping.
2005 Town Meeting Article #11
To authorize the Town Clerk wages to be paid through the Towns weekly payroll.
2005 Town Meeting Article #12
To establish a Recreation Revolving Fund as authorized by RSA 35-B: 2II.
2005 Town Meeting Article #13
Authorize the Selectmen to convey a conservation easement on thirty acres of Colebrook Water Works land (Map R-5 Lot 39.)
2006 Town Meeting Article #12
Authorized the Selectmen to grant a fifty-foot right-of-way to Morris Sage across the southeast corner of land owned by the Town known as the “Parsons Lot” (Tax Map #114-16) located off Lynch Road.
2007 Town Meeting Article #9
Establish a River Retaining Wall Capital Reserve Fund, and to authorize the Board of
Selectmen as agents to withdraw from this fund.
2007 Town Meeting Article #11
Establish a Disaster Management Expendable Trust Fund, and to authorize the Board of
Selectmen as agents to withdraw from this fund.
2007 Town Meeting Article #19
Establish a Cemetery Grounds Maintenance and Reclamation Expendable Trust Fund.
2007 Town Meeting Article #21
Modification of the Elderly Exemption to comply with current RSA’s.
2007 Town Meeting Article #22
Modify the Veterans Credit (RSA 72:28 form $100.00 to $150.00.
2007 Town Meeting Article #23
Support the issue of climate change.
2008 Town Meeting Article #18
Authorized a Ninety-Nine year lease to Colebrook Development Corp, for broadband
antenna building.
2008 Town Meeting Article #20
Library Trustees board members from seven to five beginning with the 2009 election.
2008 Town Meeting Article #21
To give a property tax incentive in the amount of 100% of the assessed value for a
residential wind energy system.
2008 Town Meeting Article #22
To give a property tax incentive in the amount of 100% of the assessed value for a
residential solar energy system.
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