City of Dover News

FY2013 budget resources available online
City Manager J. Michael Joyal, Jr., presented the fiscal year 2013 proposed budget to the City Council on Wednesday, April 11, 2012.

Over the next two months, until June 15, the City Council will discuss and deliberate the proposed budget with the City Manager, department heads, school officials and the School Board.

Public hearings on the City and School portions of the budget will be held in advance of budget adoption by the City Council.

By June 15, the City Council is required to adopt a budget resolution by a majority vote for the next fiscal year.

For a complete guide to the FY2013 budget, visit http://www.dover.nh.gov/budgetrevealed_2013.htm.

This guide includes a schedule of upcoming budget meetings, a copy of the proposed budget, and additional budget materials. The page will be updated with budget information as it is made available.

The complete proposed FY2013 budget, as presented to the City Council, can be viewed here: http://www.dover.nh.gov/forms/FY13%20Proposed%20Budget_1334666997500.pdf

The proposed budget is also available to view at the City Clerk's office at City Hall and the Dover Public Library.

The remaining budget schedule is as follows:

Wednesday, April 25, workshop, 6 p.m.: Revenue;
Wednesday, April 25, regular meeting, 7 p.m.: School budget public hearing;
Wednesday, May 2, workshop, 7 p.m.: Police and Fire;
Wednesday, May 16, workshop, 7 p.m.: General government, Recreation, Library, Welfare and Other;
Wednesday, May 23, regular meeting, 7 p.m.: City budget public hearing;
Wednesday, May 30, workshop, 7 p.m.: Budget discussion;
Wednesday, June 6, workshop and special meeting, 7 p.m.: Budget discussion and adoption;
Wednesday, June 13, regular meeting, 7 p.m.: Fallback date for budget adoption.

Budget meetings and workshops will be held at the McConnell Center, Room 306, until further notice.


Volunteers needed to plant trees at Berry Brook
Volunteers are being sought to help plant trees at the Berry Brook restoration site on Saturday, April 28, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Volunteers will meet at Lowell Avenue and follow signs to the former water works facility. Volunteers are asked to bring water to drink, a packed lunch, gardening or work gloves, sunscreen, bug spray, a spade or shovel and buckets. Volunteers should wear work clothes and boots.

For more information or to let organizers know you are attending, call Melinda Bubier at 603-862-2818, or e-mail mindy.bubier@unh.edu.

The Berry Brook restoration project is part of Urban Watershed Renewal being implemented through water quality and stream restoration improvements that began in 2011. The Berry Brook Watershed represents a unique opportunity to work within a vibrant supportive community at a neighborhood scale, and measure watershed and ecosystem response in relation to impervious cover reductions. Impervious cover refers to surfaces such as parking lots, roadways and rooftops from which water runs off, instead of infiltrating into the soil. Impervious cover reductions are achieved by directing this run-off to treatment systems which allow for some infiltration and/or treatment of the stormwater run-off prior to discharging to Berry Brook.

The restoration project is a partnership between the City of Dover, the University of New Hampshire Stormwater Center, the Cocheco River Watershed Coalition, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, American Rivers, and funding by New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services.

Through a series of grants and matching funding from the City of Dover, the project will implement some of the major recommendations from the 2008 Watershed Management Plan for Berry Brook.

For more information on the Berry Brook restoration project, visit http://www.unh.edu/unhsc/berrybrook.


Dover Pride Clean Up Day 2012
Dover Main Street will host the 13th annual Dover Pride Clean Up Day on Saturday, April 28, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

The day will begin at 8 a.m. in the Cocheco Mills Courtyard in downtown Dover with a pancake breakfast served by the Dover Kiwanis Club. A registration table will be set up in the courtyard. Volunteers, armed with rakes, shovels, gloves and muscle, can register any time after 8:30 a.m. Wheelbarrows are always needed and volunteers asked to bring one, if possible.

Volunteers will be assigned a site somewhere in the downtown area. Event organizers will attempt best to match volunteer skills or special needs with specific sites. Each site has a captain who will be easily identified by their red bandana. Some sites require more physical strength, some are better for youngsters.

Whatever your talents, they will put them to work. Volunteers will weed, rake, plant, spread mulch, pick up debris and help make the downtown beautiful and colorful for the spring and summer. Volunteers will also be fortified by a roving refreshment stand offering coffee, soft drinks and water courtesy of Rebel Chef Cafe and Seacoast Coca Cola.

At the completion of the morning, everyone will be treated to pizza in the Courtyard, provided by Kendall Pond Pizza. The presentation of the Golden Pitchfork Award for the most enthusiastic group will take place as well.

For more information, e-mail director@dovermainstreet.org

To volunteer, visit http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0F49ADAF2CA57-dover.

Dover Pride Clean Up Day is rain or shine. The event is sponsored by Centrix Bank.