To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the amount of $500 for Step Up Parents. Step Up Parents is a N.H. based 501(c)(3) that provides financial assistance and support to grandparents and relative caregivers who have stepped up to raise the children of parents struggling with substance use disorder. These funds are used to provide help with needs not met through traditional state and local funding for such things as the cost of summer camp, music lessons, sports camps, daycare, food, clothing, automobile repairs, rent, and gas.
What it means: If Article 46 is approved, two things will result. First, Step Up Parents will receive a donation of $500 in 2020 from the Town of Hampton, and second, the organization will be added in the future to the Social Services Warrant Article of donation recipients, thus increasing that line item in future years. (Article 26 this year).
Those in favor say: Step Up Parents is an organization that is helping families torn apart by drug addiction, and specifically the children whose parents are unable to care for them. It is appropriate that the group be considered as one of the Social Services agencies to which the Town provides a donation each year.
Those against say: No one spoke against this Article at Deliberative Session.
Fiscal impact: The $500 in 2020 will create an additional tax cost for a Hampton home valued at $400,000 of $.04. This decision affects future years as well.