By JoAnne MacKenzie
The Eagle-Tribune
LONDONDERRY, N.H. — Voters opted not to add four full-time firefighters and overtime funding to increase staffing levels to 10 firefighters per shift. The vote was 1,011 for, 1,235 against , according to preliminary numbers.
Incumbent Town Councilor Sean O’Keefe lost his re-election bid for another three-year term to challenger Jim Butler. Butler got 1,102, O’Keefe just 930.
Cindi Rice Conley is the town moderator, getting 1,155 votes to Mackenzie Douglas’s 796. Kathy Wagner is the new town treasurer, topping Adriana Komst, 1,206-851.
Voters OK’d a $537,000 highway reconstruction bond, 1,611-517. They also approved the operating budget of $26.7 million, 1,448-755.
But voters rejected putting $200,000 in the town’s maintenance Trust Fund, 960-1,257.
They approved establishing a capital reserve fund for fire equipment, 1,904-727. Also approved were a $3 million sewer fund, 1,701-538, and putting 100 percent up to $100,000 of land use change tax revenues into the Conservation Fund.
Voters rejected establishing a $200,000 capital reserve fund for cable division equipment, 896-1,301 and also nixed establishing a special revenue fund for the cable department, 852-1,350.
Three bargaining agreements were approved by significant margins.
An article calling for the establishment of a redistricting commission to divide the town into two or more districts was handily rejected, 646-1,488. That article was the result of a citizen petition.
On the school side, incumbent School Board member Steve Young was the top vote-getter in a field of six running for two seats. Young received 1,287 votes.
The second candidate elected was Leitha Reilly with 684 votes. In third was Glenn Douglas with 481, Melanie Tamburello was fourth with 460, Joseph. Caputo was fifth with 451 votes. Incumbent Michael Boyle trailed, coming in sixth with 421 votes.
The amended school budget of $64.7 million passed, 1,950-279. The teachers contract was approved, 1,200-1,060.
School district voters OK’d putting $600,000 in a school buildings maintenance fund, 1,247-992.
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