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CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRES FOR

SELECTMAN

(Last updated February 12, 2007)

To Candidates for SELECTMAN:  

     Below please find a list of questions that have been posed to you by voters throughout Goffstown.  These questions have been received by both members and non-members of the Goffstown Residents Association.

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Candidates for SELECTMAN questionnaire:

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 1.  Are you for or against the Road Plan (Article 15)? 
 

 2.  Are you for or against placing the Road Plan in the operating budget vs. Special Article (Article 16)? 
 

 3.  Are you for or against the proposed 24/7 fire protection plan (Article 21)? 
 

 4.  Are you for or against the proposed TIF districts (Articles 22, 23 and 24)? 
NOTE: THESE ARTICLES WERE RECENTLY DETERMINED TO APPEAR IN VIOLATION OF STATE RSA 162-K:9, RENDERING THEIR SUBSEQUENT PASSAGE OR FAILURE UNENFORCEABLE.
 

 5.  Are you for or against the Global Warming petition article (Articles 26)? 
 

 6.  Where do you stand on recording roll-call votes in meeting minutes (right-to-know petition Article 27)? 
 

 7.  Where do you stand on the Conservation articles (Articles 29 & 30)? 
 

 8.  Where do you stand on "Pay as you throw" (charging residents for trash disposal, usually in the form of a charge per-garbage bag)? 
 

 9. Where do you stand on Workforce Housing (housing built specifically for moderate income workers, in a price range affordable to said workers)? 
 

 10. Where did/do you stand on the Charter Commission?  In past years (2005, 2006 recently), an article has been put on the ballot asking approval for Goffstown to change to a different style of government where the Town Administrator would be the head person with an aldermanic type of board. 
 

 11. What do you feel is Goffstown's most pressing problem/issue, and if elected, what steps would you take to correct it? 
 

 12. Goffstown's government is now a $50M+ enterprise.  Would you support the hiring of an outside commercial accounting firm to scrutinize the both the school and town operating budgets, line by line, department by department, to help identify wasteful, inefficient or unnecessary spending, to make recommendations on alternative operational practices and spending habits, and to make the findings available to the public?
 

 13. Would you be in favor of implementing a "zero-base" budget policy for Town and School Budgets?  (This would mean that each year, you would begin budget negotiations based on that year's needs, and not based on what was asked for in the previous year's budget.) 

 14.  From WAYNE PERREAULT, Goffstown:  Do you feel that the Town should comply with the American with Disabilities Act, and the ADA Compliance Committee should be charged to be active as well as perform a self-evaluation of the Town at every 3 years? 

 15.  From WAYNE PERREAULT, Goffstown:  Should DPW do away with the sidewalk exceptions list (no longer maintained) and replace it with a Sidewalk Priority Repair list (those that need immediate repair)? 

  16.  Most of the candidates are against the TIF articles.  Do you have any thoughts on alternative measures to encourage economic development?


 

 

 

 

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