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Merrimack County House Delegation has a Zoom starting now; I think we actually vote on stuff this time so I’ll see if I can livetweet stuff from it. #NHPolitics
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First order of business is to approve the county nursing home’s union contract (yes, our county has a county-run nursing home! Something cool I learned this year). I missed the union name so I’ll try to ask about that…
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Sounds like the International Chemical Workers Union? I’m not finding them on here; anyone on #1u-twitter know of their account?
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ok, their contract passes, and I think it was unanimous; next up is an authorization on refunding bonds
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County delegation meetings are generally pretty uncontroversial; I don’t think I’ve seen a single non-unanimous vote at one of these yet…
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Next up is the entire budget, which we all broke off into subcommittees to approve line-items of in previous meetings
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One thing we’re discussing here is the new stimulus money just signed into law by President Biden; the money for state & local governments means we’ll have more money than we originally budgeted for…
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Next up is a vote to allow for spending of unanticipated funds (like the Recovery Act ones mentioned previously) by the county commissioners, which is separate from the budget
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First county delegation vote I’ve seen with votes against it! Resolution for accepting unanticipated funds passes, 25-6.
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I hear someone coughing from the physical hearing room; hope they don’t have COVID…
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Now we’re discussing forgiving some interest on some payment from the town of Wilmot that were delayed due to that huge snowstorm we got back in December
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motion to forgive Wilmot passes unanimously
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ok we’ve adjourned