The Conway Daily Sun, Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011 VOL. 23 NO. 32 CONWAY, N.H. MT. WASHINGTON VALLEY’S DAILY NEWSPAPER 356-3456

Conway school meeting tonight BY LLOYD JONES THE CONWAY DAILY SUN

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CONWAY —So many people are expected to attend the school meeting Wednesday evening offi cials are setting up the gym at Kennett High School in case the crowd doesn’t fi t in the 500-seat Lloynd Auditorium.

With controversial budget cut on table, huge crowd is expected The meeting is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. and the municipal budget committee’s proposal to cut the school budget by 11 percent, or about $4.1 million, is expected to dominate the night’s discussion. The budget committee is recommending

a budget in the neighborhood of $29 million, while the proposed budget by the school board, excluding warrant articles, which total about $733,000, was $33,085,373. see SCHOOL page 10

Weathers: Five months of budget work ‘almost for naught’

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Town budget will be higher than last year regardless of ballot vote on April 12 BY ERIK EISELE

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Freedom voters approve safety complex Cost will be about $300,000 less than the $1.2 million originally proposed BY DAYMOND STEER THE CONWAY DAILY SUN

FREEDOM — Voters approved a proposed safety complex at town meeting on Tuesday. The warrant asked voters for up to $1.2 million to build a two-bay addition on the fire station and an attached police station on Freedom Village Road. Of that, $1,070,000 would come from a bond. The remainder

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would come from the capital reserve fund for new buildings and land. But selectmen were able to lower the cost to $900,000. Up to $770,000 is to be raised by taxes and the remaining $130,000 is to come from the capital reserve fund. The new number was based on an estimate from a construction manager, selectmen said. see FREEDOM page 8

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CONWAY — Voters will have two choices this April: a proposed town budget up $69,656 over last year and a default budget up $114,339 over last year. “It’s scary there is only a small difference,” selectman Larry Martin said. “There is no real alternative.” The town’s proposed budget, which was amended at Monday night’s deliberative session, is now almost $9 million. If voters reject that budget on voting day, April 12, they will be reverting to the default budget, which this year is even more — just over $9 million. With either choice, the town and the police department will get every dollar they asked for. And if voters turn to the default, the town will get $44,683 they didn’t ask for.

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