HANOVER – Residents will act on a proposed $383,000 budget and elect two selectmen and two School Committee members at the annual town meeting 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, in the Town House.
The regular monthly selectmen’s meeting precedes the town meeting at 5 p.m.
Town Clerk Clem Worcester said selectmen Chairman Bruce Powell, the business manager at SAD 44 and a nine-year board member, will seek a fourth term. Longtime Selectman Scott Gould resigned from his position because of a move to Bethel. Nominations from the floor will be taken to fill out the two years remaining in Gould’s three-year term.
The Hanover School Committee seat held by Victoria Fimiani is up for re-election. Nominations will be taken for that three-year term, as well as for the two years remaining in former School Committee member Debbie Barlow’s term. Barlow recently moved out of town.
Worcester said he plans to run for a one-year terms as town clerk, tax collector and treasurer.
If all money articles are passed, residents will have raised $383,017, up nearly 15 percent from last year’s adopted budget of just over $333,000.
Worcester said the increase is the result of about $30,000 more for school tuition costs for the town’s 47 students, and $20,000 more in the capital account earmarked to replace the Second Bridge on Howard Pond.
He said the town now has an increase of five or six students. Of the 47, 15 attend SAD 43, 27 attend SAD 44, and seven are enrolled in Gould Academy.
He said the town’s Oxford County tax dropped slightly as did recreation costs, while costs for ambulance services rose a couple of hundred dollars and salaries for town officials increased just over $1,000.
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