LaDaSun-Meredith election

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From page 8 of the Saturday Feb 3 Laconia Daily Sun, an article about the upcoming election in the Meredith selectboard. The Laconia Daily Sun does a terrific job of covering the local governmental issues; good writing, lots of details, various local boards and the LaDaSun is not on the internet. As a newspaper article on page 8, how many interested people get to read it? By starting a Winnipesaukee.com thread, it potentially can hang around from now till the election and many more interested people get to read it and comment.
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Juve and Flanders challenge incumbents on Meredith selectboard

By Ed Engler, The Laconia Daily Sun

MEREDITH - Bob Flanders and Richard Juve have decided to challenge incumbents Miller Lovett and Peter Miller for their seats on the Selectboard. A pair of three year terms will be up for election in March and the two candidates with the highest vote totals will be seated on the new board.
The filing deadline for 2007 passed last evening and the clerk's office reported that Flander's waited until the final day to throw his hat back into the ring. Miller long ago declared his intention to seek another term, while Lovett and Juve formally entered the race earlier this week.
Flanders previously served two terms on the board but was upset last year by 19 votes in his bid for a third. Newcomers Peter Brothers and Colette Worseman finished ahead of him. They both have two years remaining on their terms.
Juve ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the board in 2004, when Miller was elected for the first time.
The two incumbents are both retired college professors but they are far from a team, clashing often on matters that seemed more related to management style than anything. Miller has served as chairman of the board for the past year and Lovett has open expressed displeasure at the way his colleague has organized and run things.
Lovett, who had found little support for his ideas, won a one-year term on the board last March, when membership was expanded from the traditional three seats to five. The one-year term was made avalable in order to ensure that no more than two seats would ever come up for election in the same year.
Flanders owned a construction company that is now operated by his son. He remains active in the field doing consulting work and serving as the building code enforcement officer for the Town of Gilmanton. He is an alternate on the Planning Board and is currently chairman of the committee planning for renovations to the central fire station.
Juve is a retired business and school administrator who worked in just about every corner of the globe. He holds a Ph.D in economics from Rutgers University and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Army reserves/special operations.
The fifth member of the current board is Frank Michel, whose term expires next year.
Mark Donahue filed for an open three-year term as Library Trustee. No one apparently wanted to be a Trustee of the Trust Funds so that position will be wide open for a write-in vote.

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Thankyou Laconia Daily Sun and Ed Engler.

Isn't the Meredith election held on the first tuesday evening in March at the community center, way late at night, after the town meeting?

If anyone wants to attend the next Selectboard's meeting which will be discussing the town budget, the town website says it will be held on Monday Feb 5 at 5:30, at the community center.

Not knowing much of anything about any of the candidates, I have absolutely no idea who to vote for. Out of the four candidates for the two three-year terms there will be two winners and two losers. Considering my property taxes have gone from $2800. to $10,000./year in the last three years, does it even make any real big differance who serves in the position of selectman. What's it matter.....have property taxes ever gone down?

I know, I know....the funding mechanism for all of NH's local gov, local school, state school, and county is determined at the state level, by the state legislature. But, it is budgeted, collected, and spent at the local level and that's where the select board comes in. So, whom to vote for.......huh?

So, there must be something worthwhile that I/we are getting for my ten thousand dollars/year that I/we were not getting for my two thousand eight hundred dollars.................right?