Taxes Around The Lake

[John Mercier]

Laconia doesn't have Selectman.
Laconia uses the CITY format with a City Council. One councilor elected to represent each ward and a mayor-at-large elect by all the city voters. The mayor controls the meeting agenda, but only votes when a tie-breaker is necessary.

This difference is important in the budgetary/taxation process, as the residents of Laconia do not get to directly vote on either the municipal or school budgets.
They can have some input during public comment... but it isn't binding like a town format.

The towns have two formats - traditional and SB2 - the rules vary a bit between the two; but the residents can have a direct effect on the budget rather than a representative effect.

[tis]

Originally Posted by John Mercier

Laconia doesn't have Selectman.
Laconia uses the CITY format with a City Council. One councilor elected to represent each ward and a mayor-at-large elect by all the city voters. The mayor controls the meeting agenda, but only votes when a tie-breaker is necessary.

This difference is important in the budgetary/taxation process, as the residents of Laconia do not get to directly vote on either the municipal or school budgets.
They can have some input during public comment... but it isn't binding like a town format.

The towns have two formats - traditional and SB2 - the rules vary a bit between the two; but the residents can have a direct effect on the budget rather than a representative effect.

Does Laconia have a separate school budget? They must.

[Descant]

Originally Posted by tis

Does Laconia have a separate school budget? They must.

If you Google Laconia NH school budget, this pops up:

School board approves 2023-24 budget over grant funding ...

The Laconia Daily Sun
https://www.laconiadailysun.com › news › local › school...
May 3, 2023 — The budget is just over $44.6 million, with an increase of 5.2% to its operating budget over last fiscal year...

1840 students, so about $24,000 per pupil.

It appears that the school budget comes up later in the year, proposed by the school board and then approved by the City Council.

[Slickcraft]

The Alton proposed budget of $10,269,813 was just voted down 396 yes and 522 no. This results in the default budget of $9, 521,748. The current BOS hopefully learned a good lesson. Several other large budget items were also shot down.

Alan

[tis]

Originally Posted by Descant

If you Google Laconia NH school budget, this pops up:

School board approves 2023-24 budget over grant funding ...

The Laconia Daily Sun
https://www.laconiadailysun.com › news › local › school...
May 3, 2023 — The budget is just over $44.6 million, with an increase of 5.2% to its operating budget over last fiscal year...

1840 students, so about $24,000 per pupil.

It appears that the school budget comes up later in the year, proposed by the school board and then approved by the City Council.

I assumed that all of these were municipal only, no school.