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Town Meeting Results

Australian Ballot Items

There were 1112 names on the checklist 558 people voted

Zoning Regulations                    Failed               301  No           to         230   Yes

Sub-division Regulations           Failed               308  No           to         214   Yes

Outside Agencies                      All Passed       

Mt Abe                                    Passed             1589 Yes         to         1025  No

Beeman                                    Passed             286   Yes         to         271    No

Solid Waste                              Passed             4892  Yes        to         2372  No

Hannaford Technical School  Passed                 1715  Yes        to         798    No

Presidential Primary

Democratic     333 ballots voted

Wesley Clerk               10

Howard Dean               187

John Kerry                   84

Dennis Kucinich            20

Lyndon Larouche         7         

Republican   133 ballots voted

George W. Bush          123

Voice Vote Items

ARTICLE 24.  Shall the Voters of The Town of New Haven vote to appropriate up to

$ 82,500.00 for construction documents and final pricing for development of the town offices and community center on the King House Site?

Passed

ARTICLE 25.  Shall the Town of New Haven vote to appropriate up to $8,000.00 ($10,000.00 less $ 2,000.00 already donated) for the purpose of building a gazebo on the town green?

Passed

ARTICLE 26. Shall the Town of New Haven vote to pay real estate taxes to the Town Treasurer on October 1, 2004; delinquent taxes will be subject to interest charges of one percent per month and an eight percent penalty charged against them from October 1, 2004?

Passed

ARTICLE 27.  Shall the Town of New Haven vote to allow the use of voting machines (tabulators) to count ballots at elections?

Failed

ARTICLE 28.  Shall the Town vote to appropriate $ 25,000.00 to be added to the Truck Replacement Fund for the Fire Department?

Passed

ARTICLE 29.  Shall the Town of New Haven Vote to appropriate up to $120,000.00 for the construction of a sand and salt shed?

Passed

ARTICLE 30.  Shall the voters of the Town of New Haven adopt the proposed Road Fund Budget in the amount of $ 581,752.00 a portion thereof in the amount of

$ 461,406.91 to be raised by taxes, for the purpose of maintaining town roads for the year 2004?

Passed

ARTICLE 31. Shall the voters of the Town of New Haven vote to appropriate the following sum of money for the proposed 2004 General Fund Budget, being

$ 339,107.43 less the 2003 surplus of $ 64,615.54 less anticipated revenues of

$ 64,055.00 for an amount of $ 210,436.89.  This amount to be increased by any additional monies voted affirmatively in prior articles of this Annual Meeting or voted affirmatively by Australian ballot on March 2, 2004. Tax rate to be determined by the Selectboard.

Amended to less $20,000.00 Amendment passed

ARTICLE 32.  To accept the Auditor’s Report for the year 2003.

ARTICLE 33. To transact, vote and act upon any further non-binding business which may legally come before this meeting.