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Town moderator Peter Imse uses a radio to communicate with an overflow crowd in 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

After Bow settled a tax dispute with a public utility over the assessed property value of Merrimack Station power station, this year the town\u2019s operating budget is down 5.2%. <\/p>\n

\n Budget:<\/strong> The proposed operating budget for the town is $11.4 million, down from the previous year\u2019s $12 million. If approved, the town-portion tax rate will be $6.57, a 36-cent decrease, which is $108 less annually on a $300,000 home.<\/p>\n

\n Noteworthy articles:<\/strong> Residents will be asked to vote on leasing four town-owned parcels for a solar project that could be the largest in the state. If approved, the six-mega-watt project could be nearly twice the capacity of Manchester\u2019s municipal solar array, helping the town offset the costs of powering its municipal buildings.<\/p>\n

Adding $500,000 to the community building fund for the repair or construction of the building on Bow Center Road is also on the ballot.<\/p>\n

\n Contested races: <\/strong>Incumbent Matthew Poulin, Ian Flanagan, Kip McDaniel, and Brock Ehlers are running for two positions on the select board.<\/p>\n

\n When and where:<\/strong> The town meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. on March 13 at the Bow High School.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Bow settled a tax dispute with a public utility over the assessed property value of Merrimack Station power station, this year the town\u2019s operating budget is down 5.2%. Budget: The proposed operating budget for the town is $11.4 million, down…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":553,"featured_media":12263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","_newspack_byline_active":true,"_newspack_byline":"by [Author id=553]Sruthi Gopalakrishnan[\/Author] Monitor staff","newspack_content_restriction_is_exempt":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,12],"tags":[61,24,505],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[506],"class_list":["post-12262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-headlines-cm","category-town-city-government","tag-bow-nh","tag-facebook","tag-paywall","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/43127494-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12264,"href":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions\/12264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12262"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fnewspack_spnsrs_tax&post=12262"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}