Orange’s lawyers say that the Town needs to hold a special town meeting before it can carry out the plan to finance the repairs from the July floods. Here’s the official notice.
TOWN OF ORANGE, NEW HAMPSHIRE
NOTICE OF INTENT TO PETITION SUPERIOR COURT
FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the Board of Selectmen held at the Town Office at 6:00 p.m. on April 7, 2020, it was voted to petition the Superior Court for permission to hold a special town meeting to authorize the issuance of notes, appropriate funds, and accept and expend grant monies in connection with the repair of Town roads following the flash flood event of July 2019, and to name the Select Board as agents to expend from the Road Improvement and Repair Capital Reserve Fund. A petition will be filed in the Superior Court no sooner than April 19. When a date for a hearing on the Town’s petition is scheduled by the Superior Court, notice of that hearing date will be posted in the office of the selectmen and at two other places in the town and published in the Valley News.
Signed,
Dorothy Behlen Heinrichs, Chair
Tamara Fairbank
Aaron Allen
Select Board
Town of Orange, N.H.