FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2011
VOL. 20 NO. 2
BERLIN, N.H.
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City council hears from outside agencies BY BARBARA TETREAULT THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
BERLIN – The agencies that provide home maker assistance, serve senior meals, work with teenagers, promote the region, and labor to rebuild Berlin’s downtown made their case for funding before the city council Wednesday night. Each budget cycle the council devotes most of one budget session to hearing from the various social and service agencies
that receive funding from the city. In all 11 different organizations, ranging from AV Home Maker Health and Community Action Program to the Berlin Main Street Program and the Holiday Center requested a total of $91,640 in funding. In his budget proposal, City Manager Patrick MacQueen proposed funding the ten the city funded last year and following the guidelines imposed on city departments – a four percent cut in the current
appropriation. For the ten agencies that would mean total funding of $64,786. MacQueen did not recommend any funding for the American Red Cross, which requested $4,592, because the city has not funded the agency in the past. While the manager’s budget recom mends individual appropriations ranging from $13,161 for CAP to $438 for the Veterans Council, agency officials explained
lawsuit and go back to working on developing a reconfiguration plan and house County Attorney Robert Mekeel and his staff in other offices during the interim. The commissioners still hope to provide the county attorney with an office in the courthouse, according to the press release. Due to some of the facts cited in Judge Peter Bornstein’s order during the first
case, which Mekeel filed against the commissioners, attorney Phillip Waystack, who represents the commissioners, said the action was ceased. In the previous ruling, Bornstein wrote that “… at this juncture, as a matter of fact, that the reconfigured probate registry will not provide suitable office spaces
see AGENCIES page 9
Commissioners withdraw office space lawsuit BY CRAIG LYONS THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
LANCASTER— The Coos County Commissioners Wednesday announced they will drop the lawsuit filed against the county attorney that sought court approval for a proposed courthouse renovation plan. The commissioners issued a press release stating that they would drop the
see LAWSUIT page 7
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