Shall the Town of Hampton vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $91,000 for the purchase of a trash ejection trailer required for over the highway transportation and disposal of solid wastes and recycling collected at the Transfer Station. This shall be a non-lapsing appropriation per RSA 32:7, VI and shall not lapse until this project is completed or by March 31, 2020, whichever is sooner.(Majority vote required)
What it means: This request is for a new ejection trailer to join six others used to collect and transport trash and recycling. Use of the Unassigned Fund Balance to pay for this purchase means that there will be no increased tax cost in 2019. The life expectancy on the purchase is 15-20 years.
Those in favor say: There has been rapid growth in amount of trash that DPW picks up, especially in the summer or over long holiday weekends when it is not unusual to transport 400 tons of trash each day. At such times, capacity in the current trailers is limited. Since refuse cannot be shipped on weekends and holidays, the contents must be dumped in order to make use of existing trailers for additional pick-ups. But critters get at the piles of trash/recycling, glass gets crushed and more staff time is required to clean up the mess. Having an additional trailer would allow trash/recycling to remain in the trailer until it can be transported, thus reducing workload during heavy periods and helping throughout the year when trailers are out for repair.
Those against say: No one spoke against this article at theDeliberativeSession.
Fiscal impact: There is no tax impact because the money was appropriated in prior tax years. This Article is allowing the withdrawal of the money from the fund for the specified purpose.