AMENDMENTS TO THE WARRANT ARTICLES
AS VOTED ON AT THE DELIBERATIVE SESSION
ARTICLE 37: Library Operating Budget (By Petition)
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $816,434 $1.00 to defray the costs of the operation of the library.
ARTICLE 38: Library Operating Budget as a Separate Warrant Article (By Petition)
To see if the Town will vote to express a ‘sense of the meeting’ resolution requesting the Board of Selectmen, in future years, to have the library budget presented in the form of a separate warrant article. and Library Board of Trustees in future years, to schedule a special joint meeting prior to final budget submission in order to facilitate increased communications between these Boards and to provide an additional opportunity for citizens input regarding the overall Library budget and goals.
ARTICLE 23: Operating Budget
To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate as an operating budget, not including appropriations by special warrant articles and other appropriations voted separately, the amounts set forth on the budget posted with the warrant or as amended by vote of the first session, for the purposes set forth herein, totaling $10,299,569 $10,346,565.00. Should this article be defeated the default budget shall be $10,136,943 which is the same as last year, with certain adjustments required by previous action of the town or by law; or the governing body may hold one special meeting, in accordance with RSA 40:13, X and XVI, to take up the issue of a revised operating budget only. This operating budget warrant article does not include appropriations contained in ANY other warrant articles. [The Meeting added $46,966.00 to the Health & Human Service Agencies.]
ARTICLE 27: Funding for Recreation Land Purchase – Transfer from LUCT Fund to Recreation Fields Acquisition and Construction Capital Reserve Fund
To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $250,000 $390,000 to be placed into the Recreation Fields Acquisition and Construction Capital Reserve Fund previously established by the passage of Article 10 at the March 2007 annual meeting. Such amount to come from the be transferred from the existing balance of the Land Use Change Tax Fund pursuant to RSA 79-A:25-a, (II). And to authorize the Board of Selectmen to enter into agreements to acquire properties for recreation purposes as they deem appropriate, on terms and conditions acceptable to the Board of Selectmen provided that no expenditure from said Capital Reserve Fund for any such land acquisition shall occur unless and until the same is approved by a duly warned town meeting in accordance with RSA 32:15, (II) (a). and under the provisions of RSA 41:14-a.
This is a non-lapsing Special Warrant Article in accordance with RSA 32.
ARTICLE 34: Health and Human Service Agencies
To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of forty six thousand nine hundred and ninety six dollars ($46,996) one dollar ($1.00) to support the health and human service agencies which provide service to Amherst residents, the amount of the grant and identity of the receiving organization to be determined by the Selectmen as they, in their judgment, deem appropriate. In the event this article passes, the selectmen intend to include this appropriation in future years as a line item in the operating budget.
