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Newton town warrant

Selectman (3 years, elect 1)

  Robert Donovan Jr.*: 565

  Frank E. Gibbs: 321

 

Town clerk/tax collector (3 years, elect 1)

  Mary-Jo McCullough: 814

 

 Treasurer (3 years, elect 1)

  Brenda Fiers: 143

  Jennifer L. Gaines: 301

  Deidre Castle: 293

 

Cemetery trustee (3 years, elect 1)

  Michael Hughes: 701

 

Trustee of trust funds (3 years, elect 1)

  Joseph A. Simone Jr.: 706

 

Trustee of Gale Library (3 years, elect 1)

  Sarah "Sally" Woodman: 743

 

Planning Board (2 years, elect 2)

  Frank E. Gibbs: 533

  Frederick B. Gundersen: 474

 

Article 2: Allow the library to use the revenue it generates for its own purposes

  YES: 779

  NO: 96

Article 3: Amend Zoning Ordinance for light industrial/commercial zone to maintain buffers; no buildings within 75 feet of the centerline of the street and within 50 feet on any lot line.

  YES: 488

  NO: 357

Article 4: Amend Zoning Ordinance for light industrial/commercial zone to maintain buffers; no buildings within 50 feet of the centerline of the street and within 30 feet on any lot line.

  YES: 219

  NO: 631

Article 5: Amend Zoning Ordinance to prohibit animal enclosures within existing side, rear or front building setbacks.

  YES: 431

  NO: 432

Article 6: Amend Zoning Ordinance to grant an easement to 1 Deluxe Ave.

  YES: 550

  NO: 327

Article 7: Amend Zoning Ordinance regarding elderly housing to restrict all permanent residents to age 55 or older.

  YES: 686

  NO: 189

Article 8: Amend Zoning Ordinance regarding floodplain development ordinance to comply with the National Flood Insurance program.

  YES: 676

  NO: 191

Article 9: Regulate the design of small wind energy systems.

  YES: 586

  NO: 295

Article 10: Raise and appropriate $924,750 for renovations and to the police station.

  YES: 414

  NO: 494

Article 11: Operating budget of $2.9 million

  YES: 314

  NO: 572

Article 12: Pay the town clerk/tax collector $52,000 plus health insurance instead of paying through fees collected.

  YES: 383

  NO: 502

Article 13: Fund a new full-time police officer, bringing the full-time officers to six.

  YES: 354

  NO: 535

Article 14: Raise and appropriate $50,000 to the capital reserve fund for fire apparatus and equipment.

  YES: 490

  NO: 402

Article 15: Raise and appropriate $2,850 for overhead doors for the fire station.

  YES: 636

  NO: 254

Article 16: Create an expendable trust fund for emergency operations and put $10,000 in that fund.

  YES: 547

  NO: 342

Article 17: Create an expendable trust fund for town disaster management and appropriate $10,000 for the fund.

  YES: 524

  NO: 364

Article 18: Appoint selectmen as the agents to expend money from the Road Systems Improvement Fund.

  YES: 462

  NO: 386

Article 19: Raise and appropriate $15,000 for the Road Systems Improvement Fund.

  YES: 447

  NO: 410

Article 20: Raise and appropriate $87,235 for repair and maintenance of town roads.

   YES: 576

   NO: 287

Article 21: Raise and appropriate $7,200 for a part-time secretary for the selectmen's office.

   YES: 232

   NO: 626

Article 22: Raise and appropriate $18,964 for a 2 1/2 percent cost-of-living wage increase for town employees.

   YES: 263

   NO: 603

Article 23: Raise and appropriate $5,000 to revise the Pay and Classification Study for town employees.

   YES: 154

   NO: 691

Article 24: Adopt the town noise ordinance.

   YES: 396

   NO: 449

Article 25: Require a numeric tally of selectmen's votes on the operating budget and warrant articles.

   YES: 575

   NO: 254

Article 26: Raise and appropriate $50,783 for Phase II of the installation of a fire sprinkler system in Town Hall.

   YES: 391

   NO: 470

Article 27: Raise and appropriate $10,000 for the Gale Library Building Fund.

   YES: 380

   NO: 487

Article 28: Allow the public library trustees to accept and expend unanticipated money from a state, federal or private source.

   YES: 478

   NO: 350

Article 29: Raise and appropriate $15,000 for a Fee Free Solid Waste Disposal Weekend in 2009.

   YES: 464

   NO: 394

Article 30: Raise and appropriate $20,000 for a 10-foot fence at the transfer station.

   YES: 332

   NO: 529

Article 31: Raise and appropriate $20,000 for the solid waste disposal budget.

   YES: 426

   NO: 447

Article 32: Raise and appropriate $2,000 to resurface a section of road in Highland Cemetery.

   YES: 474

   NO: 402

Article 33: Raise and appropriate $5,000 for recreation for senior citizens.

   YES: 452

   NO: 385

Article 34: Raise and appropriate $39,677 for 12 community services groups.

   YES: 492

   NO: 405

Article 35: Would the town prefer to vote on community services program grants individually, beginning in 2010?

   YES: 509

   NO: 357

Article 36: Raise and appropriate $1,000 for Rockingham Nutrition and Meals on Wheels Programs.

   YES: 739

   NO: 156

Article 37: Establish the entire town as a water district and establish a municipal water utility.

   YES: 520

   NO:337

Article 38: Modify the optional veterans tax credit from $200 to $500.

   YES: 630

   NO:240

Article 39: Grant Robert L. White, owner of property off the Peanut Trail, an easement.

   YES: 410

   NO: 454

Article 40: Amend Article 14 of 2005 to require any and all new commercial buildings to comply with state fire codes.

   YES: 690

   NO: 180

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