Year: 2016

We continue to observe areas that remain of great concern to us. These are presented in no particular order. 2016 Spending Forecast:At the last Selectmen’s meeting the Finance Director indicated that her full-year spending forecast is running a surplus along

We finally had a chance to review the Selectmen’s 2017 proposed budget. The Selectmen had refused to release the details of the budget to the Budget Committee and the public during their review process and it was recently delivered to

It was recently reported that the average 2016 tax bill for a single-family home in Hampton decreased by $200 from the prior year. This was based upon the town’s Finance Director using an inaccurate comparative of $377,800 for the 2016

We hear this so many times when it comes to capital acquisitions, budgeting, manpower requests and the like that we wonder if anybody is truly managing the town! We hear the philosophy of letting the experts do their job and

As all taxpayers are now aware, the Town Assessor and Vision Appraisal conducted a revaluation of their property in Hampton. Everyone received notices with the ability to appeal their valuations; the Hampton Union reported that 900 people set up appointments.

Rational Taxpayers of Hampton are making the following recommendations based on several years of very close scrutiny of the process, presentation and work sessions associated with Town Budgeting. This is particularly important as the 2017 budget session starts. The justification

The DPW in Hampton has engaged, or is in the process of engaging, Wright Pierce Engineering to do a cost study on re-locating new sewer discharge pipes from the marsh. The source of the funding is coming from cobbling together

When the Selectmen are elected they take, along with all other elected officials, a solemn oath to follow the laws of the State of New Hampshire and the Town of Hampton. I am going to address the comments of Town

We understand from an article in last week’s Hampton Union that the SEA teachers union is lobbying the SAU21 school boards to petition the courts for special town meetings intended to provide the union with a second chance for approval

The above chart represents actual Hampton property taxes on a single-family home of an average assessed value from 1992 to 2015. 2016 is a projection, which assumes all March 2016 money warrant articles pass, coupled with a 1.5% year on