The New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies is again partnering with New Hampshire Public Radio on their 2010 Town Meeting website. Town historic spending and revenue is available on our website. We also have information available on SB2. One frequent question we get is: What share of New Hampshire local governance follows the traditional town meeting format?
Most Local Appropriations in New Hampshire are Raised Under SB2
SB2 towns more of New Hampshire's population than those that follow teh traditional town meeting format.
By 2008 more than 35% of New Hampshire’s population lived in the 63 towns that
adopted SB2 as an alternative to the more traditional ‘town meeting’ municipalities.
About 30% of New Hampshire’s residents live in ‘town meeting’ towns, and about 34%
of New Hampshire’s residents live in the 15 municipalities with no town meeting, usually
a city with a council form of government.
Of the $5 billion in local level appropriations raised by New Hampshire municipalities in 2007 to fund local schools and other municipal services $1.8 billion (36%) was appropriated in towns following the SB2 form of governance. Towns that followed the more traditional town meeting format had $1.5 billion in spending in 2007.
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