3.  Volunteer Policy and Applications  - Proposed- First Read

9.  NRPC Update -  Selectmen Queenan

TOWN ADMINISTRATOR REPORT

1.   Please see below - The Summary of Changes to Town Meeting Laws  made in 2025 issued by the NHMA

2.    Audit wrap up   with  Alina Korsak, CPA.  Managing Director is scheduled for September 22nd.

3.    Litchfield -   Population 8,566,   Distribution -  for F2025 was  831,429.00 , with a Total Allocation of $136,608,297.00 .   New 2026 Budget approved would also level fund the amount it distributes from the meals and rooms tax to cities and towns to $137 million a year, rather than a percentage amount, which amounts to an $11.2 million cut. 

More on State Aid published by NHMA in 2024 (see below)

 4  .  Highway Block Grant  -     (see below)  The four (4) Block Grant Aid payments to your municipality are dispersed in the following manner:

30% in July of 2025     - received    $63,718.13 

30% in October of 2025

20% in January of 2026, and

20% in April of 2026 

Block Grant Aid payments to your municipality include highway revenue from Senate Bill (SB) 367 that became effective July 1, 2014.  Block Grant Aid Apportionment  “A” and SB 367 funds represents 12% of the total road toll (gas tax) and motor vehicle fees collected prior to accounting for the cost of collection and administration incurred by the State.

5.  Healthcare -  Receiving rates from two separate insurance companies - Will review plans with Department heads and bring comments to the Board of Selectmen.

6.   Solid Waste Disposal Surcharge – Beginning January 1, 2026, a $3.50/ton solid waste disposal surcharge will be collected quarterly by NHDES from operators of landfills, incinerators and waste-to-energy facilities for each ton of solid waste disposed of at these facilities. The fees are to be paid by the facilities’ customers and collected by the facility operators.  We have been told municipalities will receive this fee back.  Should here in a couple weeks how this will work.  (see Fee list below)

7.  Correspondence received -  NHDES Correspondence | Site #199712055, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, 701 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack.  This is the response to the Draft Remedial Action Plan Data Collection Work Plan prepared by WSP USA Inc.   (See Below)

SELECTMEN REPORTS

1. Recreation Commission Representative - F. Robert Leary Sr.

2. School Facilities Improvement Committee - John Brunelle

3. Budget Committee Representative - John Brunelle

4. Planning Board Representative - Steven G. Gannon

5. Capital Improvement Committee Representative - Kimberly M. Queenan

6. Conservation Commission Representative - Dianne Plansky

7. Heritage Commission Representative - Dianne Plansky

8. Emergency Management Team - John Brunelle

9. Energy Committee - Steven G. Gannon

10. Economic Development Committee - Kimberly M. Queenan

 Adjournment