October Roundtable

At the October Strafford Town Republican Committee Roundtable we were joined by State Representatives Kurt Wuelper and Michael Harrington. The conversation centered around the achievement of a bipartisan budget that was balanced and kept redistribution of unexpected state surpluses in a similar format of one time, nonrecurring, payments by the state to local governments.  The Town of Strafford will receive $37,700 in 2020 and $37,700 in 2021 and Strafford School Board will receive $84,000 in 2020 as part of this surplus redistribution. Also, as part of the September negotiations, recurring education funding was reworked and Strafford School Board will see an increase of 143K this year and 169K next fiscal year.  Additionally, income taxes and capital gains taxes were again taken off the table and not enacted.  Other items of interest were that the Second Amendment was upheld, who possible US Senatorial candidates might be, that the New Durham Fish Hatchery environmental negotiations continue, and that there is strong Republican support for a new secure State Psychiatric Unit next to the State Prison in Concord.  Thank you to Governor Sununu and our State Reps Wuelper and Harrington along with State Senator Reagan for your good work on these recent negotiations. Please join us on 2nd Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8:00 at the Hill Library in Strafford.  In November on the 12th, we will actually start at 6:00 and attend the New Hampshire Humanities Council presentation on the Civil War.  We will play by ear if we continue on with a roundtable.