{"id":2186,"date":"2012-03-14T09:57:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T14:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2012-03-15T00:06:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T05:06:16","slug":"town-meeting-2012-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2012\/03\/14\/town-meeting-2012-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Meeting 2012 Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

We will be compiling and publishing some of the more significant results from town and school meetings all over NH as we receive them. Send yours to webmaster@cnht.org
\nIf you sent out a voter guide, let us know how you fared with regard to its recommendations.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Allenstown<\/strong>
\nTeachers Contract – FAILED<\/p>\n

Amherst<\/strong>
\nOperating budget – FAILED
\nLand purchase ($180,000) – FAILED
\nLease\/Purchase for new fire truck ($154,000 first of 4 years) – FAILED<\/p>\n

Overall, the voters agreed with our voter guide on 10 of 12 articles for an 83% success rate.
\nComplete results here: http:\/\/www.amherstcitizen.com\/VOTE-2012\/2012-Town.pdf<\/p>\n

Brentwood<\/strong>
\nTown and School SB-2 – FAILED by small margins
\n(Under SB2, all town warrant articles are considered by voters at the polls. Many towns and school districts have switched to SB2)<\/p>\n

Candia<\/strong>
\nTown Budget – FAILED
\nSchool Budget – FAILED<\/p>\n

Danville<\/strong>
\nFine for Not Recycing – FAILED<\/p>\n

Deerfield<\/strong>
\nTown Budget – FAILED
\nSchool Budget – FAILED<\/p>\n

Enfield<\/strong>
\n$24M School Bond – FAILED
\n(see press release<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Exeter<\/strong>
\n$110,000 to purchase property next to library – FAILED<\/p>\n

Farmington<\/strong>
\nSchool Budget – FAILED
\nTeacher Raises – FAILED<\/p>\n

Fremont<\/strong>
\nNew Fire Truck – FAILED
\nTown Budget – FAILED<\/p>\n

Gilford<\/strong>
\nNew Firetruck – FAILED<\/p>\n

Gilmanton<\/strong>
\nSB2 for Town – PASSED<\/font><\/p>\n

Goffstown<\/strong>
\nTown Budget – FAILED
\nSchool Budget – FAILED<\/p>\n

Full results for Town here: http:\/\/goffstown.com\/images\/stories\/Town_Hall\/Town_Clerk\/Election_Documents\/2012\/town_articles.pdf
\nFull results for School here: http:\/\/goffstown.com\/images\/stories\/Town_Hall\/Town_Clerk\/Election_Documents\/2012\/school_articles.pdf<\/p>\n

Hampstead<\/strong>
\nPolice Station – FAILED<\/p>\n

Hudson<\/strong>
\nCollective Bargaining (3) – FAILED<\/p>\n

Lee<\/strong>
\nVoters Keep SB-2<\/font><\/p>\n

Lisbon<\/strong>
\nTown Administrator – CUT<\/p>\n

Littleton<\/strong>
\n$7.5 M Town Budget – FAILED<\/p>\n

New Boston<\/strong>
\nNew Salt Shed – FAILED
\nNew $206,678 Dump Truck – FAILED<\/p>\n

New Ipswich<\/strong>
\nTown Budget – FAILED<\/p>\n

Newton<\/strong>
\nTown Budget – FAILED<\/p>\n

Nottingham<\/strong>
\nSchool Addition – FAILED
\nVoters Keep SB-2<\/font><\/p>\n

Nottingham School Warrant Articles
\nArticle 2 – School Addition (school addition bond issue for $3,500,000. Total cost over 15 years = $4, 500,000. School addition promoted arts and craft room, conference room, new and expanded library, 2 part time reading rooms for SPED, no full time classrooms. Soundly defeated as birth rates decline.) needed 3\/5s vote to pass.
\nYes 316 No 666<\/p>\n

Article 3 School Budget (Budget proposal was less than default budget!)
\n Yes 695 No 301<\/p>\n

Article 4 Teachers’s Contract (featured $500 per years step raises and increased employee heath insurance contributions to 3% increase over 3 years.)
\nYes 564 No 453<\/p>\n

Plaistow<\/strong>
\n$4.8 M Timberlane Regional High School’s athletic facility renovation – FAILED
\nCommuter Rail – FAILED
\nRecreation Pavilion – FAILED<\/p>\n

Sanborn (Kingston and Newton)<\/strong>
\n$2.2 M School Restoration – FAILED<\/p>\n

Weare<\/strong>
\nTeacher Contract – FAILED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We will be compiling and publishing some of the more significant results from town and school meetings all over NH as we receive them. Send yours to webmaster@cnht.org If you sent out a voter guide, let us know how you fared with regard to its recommendations. Allenstown Teachers Contract – FAILED Amherst Operating budget – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-town-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}