The polls will be open from 11 AM to 7 PM on Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Article 1, below, will be voted on during polling hours. Town Meeting begins after the polls close at 7 PM.

Article 1: To choose all necessary Town Officers for the ensuing year. (By ballot vote during polling hours.)

Once the polls close at 7 PM, Town Meeting will begin by considering Article 2.

Article 2: To see if the town will vote to authorize the selectmen to enter into a three-year lease for a one-ton truck in the amount of $55,509 and further to raise and appropriate $18,503 for the first year’s payment. No lease will be entered into without an escape clause. This article is contingent on Article 3. The Selectmen and the Budget Committee recommend this article.

Article 3: To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $50,273 for the purchase of town maintenance equipment to be used for work on town properties. This article is contingent on Article 2. The Selectmen and Budget Committee recommend this article.

Article 4: To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,478,648 for general municipal operations. This appropriation does not include appropriations that are voted for in other articles. The Selectmen and the Budget Committee recommend this article.

Article 5: To see if the town will vote to discontinue the Bridge Capital Reserve Fund. Said funds (estimated to be $225,000) with accumulated interest to date of withdrawal, to be transferred to the general fund. Articles 6 and 7 are contingent upon this article. The Selectmen and the Budget Committee recommend this article.

Article 6: To see if the town will vote to establish a Capital Reserve Fund under the provisions of RSA 35:1, naming the selectmen as agents to expend, for the purpose of funding the town’s portion of the Lawrence Street Bridge Project which will be a State Bridge Aid project and further to raise and appropriate $200,000 to be placed in this fund. Said funds will come from the general fund. This article is contingent upon Article 5. The Selectmen and the Budget Committee recommend this article.

Article 7: To see if the town will vote to establish a Capital Reserve Fund under the provisions of RSA 35:1 for the purpose of funding general bridge rehabilitation naming the selectmen as agent to expend and further to raise and appropriate $50,000 to be placed in this fund; $25,000 to come from the general fund and $25,000 to be raised through taxation. This article is contingent upon Article 5. The Selectmen and the Budget Committee recommend this article.

Article 8: To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $10,476 to add to the Revaluation Capital Reserve Fund previously established. The Selectmen and the Budget Committee recommend this article.

Article 9: To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $25,000 to add to the Ambulance Capital Reserve Fund, previously established. The Board of Selectmen and the Budget Committee recommend this article.

Article 10: To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $3,000 to add to the previously established Fire Emergency Labor Expendable Trust Fund. The Selectmen and Budget Committee recommend this article.

Article 11: To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $7,500 to add to the previously established Police Cruiser Capital Reserve Fund. The Selectmen and the Budget Committee recommend this article.

Article 12: To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $10,000 to add to the Highway Equipment Capital Reserve Fund previously established. The Selectmen and the Budget Committee recommend this article.

Article 13: To see if the town will vote to establish a Technology Expendable Trust Fund per RSA 31:10a for the purchase or maintenance of technology-related equipment naming the selectmen as agents to expend, to raise and appropriate $18,000 to fund this account and further to withdraw $16,231 from the newly-established fund for the purpose of a necessary computer network upgrade. The Selectmen and Budget Committee recommend this article.

Article 14: To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $10,000 to add to the Town Buildings Expendable Trust Fund previously established. The Selectmen and the Budget Committee recommend this article.

Article 15: To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $10,000 to add to the Transfer Station Capital Reserve Fund. The Selectmen and the Budget Committee recommend this article.

Article 16: Shall we delegate the duties and responsibilities of the Cemetery Trustees to the Board of Selectmen?

Article 17: To see if the town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to extend Hoyt Road as a Class V road to allow for construction of a turnaround and access to Lot 15-230-100.

Article 18: To see if the town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to extend Emery Road Class V rating, east no farther than required by zoning to allow a home to be built on Lot 8-329-127. All improvements would be to town standards, but all costs would be paid without use of any town funds.

Article 19: To see if the town will vote to accept Johnson Lane as laid out between Cilleyville Road and Powers Lane for all traffic and from Powers Lane to Routes 11 & 4 as a pedestrian way.

Article 20: To see if the town will vote to enter into a ten (10) year lease with the Andover Horseshoe Club for the lease of the 45 Monticello Drive property known as Map 18-526-032. (Any lease of more than one year requires a Town Meeting vote.)

Article 21: Shall the town vote to adopt the provisions of RSA 36-A:4-a, I(b) to authorize the conservation commission to expend funds for contributions to “qualified organizations” for the purchase of property interests, or facilitating transactions related thereto, where the property interest is to be held by the qualified organization and the town will retain no interest in the property?