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LEBANON

NEW HAMPSHIRE

1990 CITY REPORT

Containing Operating Results

for the

Year Ended December 31, 1989

CITY ORDINANCES

Number Title

il Enactment of Ordinances 2 Zoning Ordinance 4 Planning Board if Ordinance Regulating Use of Bicycles alal Changing Name of Airport 12 Franklin Street 14A Ordinance relating to Dogs & Other Animals 16A Water Investment Fee Ordinance V7 Regulating & Controlling Use of P.A.Systems 18 Salary Plan a Regulation of Taxicabs 22 Junk Dealers & Junk Yards rae} Building Code, Fire Prevention Code adopting Ordinance 24 Motor Vehicle Traffic & Parking Meters 25 Cemeteries Rules & Regulations 26A Mobile Homes 27 Regional Planning Commission 28 Snow & Ice Ordinance 30 Traffic Ordinance shit Snow Traveling Vehicle Ordinance 32 Conservation Commission 34 Sanitary Landfill Rules & Regulations 36 City Historian 38 Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance 39 Prohibition against consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain places

Number Title

42 Sewer Department Residential User Rate 43 Ordinance relating to Library Trustees 44 Ordinance relating to Recreation Commission 45 Licensing Ordinance 46 Standard of Conduct Relative to Municipal Contracts 47 Ordinance Prohibiting Traffic in Drug Related Objects 48 Ordinance establishing Procedures for Filing Initiative Petitions 50 Ordinance creating Driveway & Culvert Policy 5 Waiver of Motor Vehicle Registration Fee of Former POWs 52 Ordinance relating to the Sol- diers Memorial Building ays! Regulation of Highway Excavation 54 Board of Assessors 55 Alarm Ordinance 56 Special Assessment Procedures 5)7 Board of Trustees RE DHMC Fiscal Impact Payment Trust Fund 58 Fee Schedule 59 Scenic Roads 60 Street Numbering Ordinance 61 Public Utilities (Water/Sewer)

july, 1990 City of Lebanon

Citizens of Lebanon,

I am pleased to convey the^1989 Annual^ Report. As you will see^ in

the following pages,^1989 was a busy and productive year.

Continued reorganization occurred with the consolidation of positions in the Public^ Works Department. With it, the position of Public Utilities^ Director was abolished and^ the line responsibilities of the Water and Sewer Superintendents were increased. The City Planner position was reestablished and a Planner was hired. The Codes and Building^ Departments were merged into a single Codes Department. A further reorganization and consolidation is planned for^1990 with the merger of the Parks Department with the Cemetery^ Department. The reconstituted

department will be under the direct^ control of the Public^ Works

Director.

With the changes in organization came changes in the^ way we review

and regulate^ development and construction. These changes are

described more fully^ below^ under the Planner’s Report. I believe

that these changes have^ made our operations more efficient and

responsive to the needs of public for a logical and straight

forward process and of the City to ensure that requests for

development are comprehensively reviewed.

The continuation of the Capital^ Improvement^ Program (CIP) in^1989 has been an excellent and significant^ planning tool for^ the City. Some of the major^ projects^ accomplished in^1989 are listed^ under the Public Works Division^ reports.^ Major construction^ projects including a new lined landfill,^ police^ station,^ Route^120 and Route 12A improvements and^ the reconstruction of the Bridge^ Street

intersection with Main^ Street in West Lebanon are planned for

1990. With a regular^ program of capital^ Nnprovements it^ is easier

for the City to address and plan for^ its infrastructure needs^ over

time. Continued^ funding of this program is essential for^ the City to continue to meet its needs as it evolves into^ the^ 21st century,

now only 10 years away.

The reports that^ follow^ give a good indication of the direction that the City is taking. It makes for fascinating^ reading. I continue to take^ pride in^ the^ City,^ its employees and increasingly sophisticated^ operations.

Se ee

Steven L. Smith City Manager

51 North Park Street - Lebanon, New Hampshire 03766

Table of Contents

Introduction

Reports of City Departments

Airport

Caty Clerk

Codes Communications Libraries

Planning

Police Public Works Recreation Welfare

Boards and Commissions

Advance Transit

Grafton County

Grafton County Senior Citizen's Center

Headrest

Home and Community Health Care

Hospice of the Upper Valley

Upper Valley Household Hazardous Waste Committee

Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Council

Zoning Board of Adjustment

Financial Section

Auditor's Report on Financial Presentation

Combined Balance Sheet--All Funds

Combined Statement of Revenues, Expenditures,

and Changes in Fund Balance--All Governmental Funds

Combined Statement of Revenues, Expenditures, and

Changes in Fund Balance--All Proprietary Funds

Combining Balance Sheet--All Special Revenue Funds

Combining Statement of Revenues, Expenditures,

and Changes in Fund Balance--Special Revenue Funds

Combining Balance Sheet--Capital Projects Funds

Combining Statement of Revenues, Expenditures,

and Changes in Fund Balance--Capital Projects Funds

Comparative Analysis

Revenues and Expenditures--Four Year History

Principal Taxpayers

Debt

Yearly Tax Collections--Ten Year History

Demographics

City Council Boards and Standing Committees

Voter Registration Information

PISS GLU eee One CITY OF LEBANON, NEW HAMPSHIRE

TRENDS

1989 proved to be a watershed year for the City. As the breakneck pace

of growth from the last half of the

eighties seemed to take a breather

we can take a look back over the

last couple of years and notice

three major developments that

characterize the end of the decade.

The first of these was the develop-

ment a capital improvements

program--a regular analysis of the capital needs of the City. The

second was the generation of

"impact fees"--a new revenue source

intended to deal with the needs of

growth. And the third was the

reloeation §.of..-the. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center to

Lebanon--an event that may prove to

be a pivotal one for the entire region.

The construction of the interstates in the early 1970's forced Lebanon

into the fast lane. Originally an

agrarian economy more interested in farming than in high-tech, Lebanon

has struggled to keep up. The

City's sewer and water systems, ade- quate for a small-town have become

inadequate and have needed major

renovations. Police services have

been spurred on by fastpaced com-

mercial development and the traffic

and risk they bear. Fire services

have been exposed and trained to a

new challenges including fire

preventive construction techniques

and, the buzz-word of the 1980's,

"toxic waste". Streets, adequate for

the agricultural and woolen mill

traffic they were built for, suffer

under the crush of the regionalized

shopping, trade, medical, and in-

stitutional hub that Lebanon has become.

Capital Improvements Program

In the face of this explosion in the attractiveness of the City to outside

investors the City has developed

and is pursuing a regular program of Capital Improvements. The Capi-

tal Improvements Program, developed

by the Planning Board in 1988, promises to serve the City well in meeting the inexorable demands of a

modern society. Projects for 1990

include the construction of a police

facility. Budgeted at $1.75 million

this project will place the police

department in a modern, functional location, as well as allow needed

expansion space within City Hall.

The. single costliest. capital

project--at $2.2 million--planned for

1990 is the new lined landfill. Operating as an unlined landfill

since the 1960's, the City is now re-

quired to construct a landfill which has beneath its entirety a vinyl liner, much like a swimming pool liner. Above the liner will be a series of drainage pipes which will collect rainwater which leaches through the waste, and pump this

"leachate" to the City's wastewater

treatment plant further north on

Route 12A. The City landfill will likely become one of the largest users of the wastewater treatment plant when this project is complete. While costly by historical standards the landfill tipping fee, at sixty dollars per ton is still reasonable by comparison with similar facilities. With landfills being closed, incinerators having financial

difficulties, and barges circling the

globe looking for dumping sites, Lebanon isis. proud ‘to. have,.«a

functioning solid waste system under

its own control.

Impact Fees and the Cost Dynamics of Capital Expansion

Water System Cost

Original system $10,

First Expansion 1,

Second Expansion 1,

Cost to each group:

Improvements to the Bridge Street intersection with Main Street in

West Lebanon is scheduled for 1990,

as well as additional turning lanes at the Heater Road intersection on Route 120. The Route 120 work will be paid for from impact fees col- lected on new development which

has occurred along Route 120.

Impact Fees

Impact fees, or fees levied on new

developments intended to pay the

capital cost of the facility capacity

the new developments use up, are beginning’ tombe -/a reality in Lebanon. Much argued about, these fees have survived many court tests in other municipalities.

Imagine a community of ten thousand

people that decides to build a water

system large enough for their whole

community. It costs ten thousand

dollars to build. Through the water user fee each person pays $1 toward

the cost of the system. The next

year another thousand people move

to town, and they need a water sys- tem. The town builds an expansion to their water system big enough for

one thousand people. This costs one

thousand dollars and the eleven

thousand people, through the water

user fee, each pay nine cents

towards the water system expansion. The town no more than finishes the new thousand person capacity water system expansion when a thousand

more

Per capita cost to each group:

Pits second third 10,000 PO00 1,

0.090 0. 0.083 0.083 0.

L8i33 OM173 0.

new people move into town. Again, the now twelve thousand people

charge themselves equally to build a

one thousand person capacity addi- tion to their water system. And again, through their water user fees, share the thousand dollar cost equally between twelve thousand people, each paying eight and a third cents for this new water sys- tem.

How much has each group paid? The

first group, the original residents,

has paid $1.17 each for a water sys-

tem 20% larger than they really

needed. The first movers-in each paid seventeen cents toward a water

system that really cost $1.00 per

person. The final group paid only 8.3 cents toward the water system but, likewise, received a full

dollar's worth of benefit.

Sure, towns don't build water sys-

tems and other infrastructure only big enough for the immediate population. And sure, many public

systems don't have expressly limited

capacities where when one new per-

son moves in you need to build an

expansion, but many infrastructure

cost problems are very similar to

the above example. To the question

"Why should established residents be

asked to pay for improvements

needed by new growth?" the answer

is all too often, "that's the way its always been done." Impact fees are

intended to assure that new resi-

dents bear the full share, or at

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fe) The construction by DHMC of a

two mile water line to the site. The City paid the cost of oversizing the line to the twelve inches the watershed should have.

fe) The construction by DHMC of a

reservoirgtoweserve® the

watershed. DHMC is paying the cost

of building a 2.1 million gallon reservoir, while the city is paying the cost of building an additional 0.9 million gallons to serve spin-off development.

new

fe) Installation, at DHMC expense, of a quarter mile of sewer line to

tem. DHMC is not only to build the

line, but to have Hanover agree to

accept DHMC sewage, as well as all

sewage generated by Lebanon properties within the watershed.

fe) Payment of all planning, zoning, and general evaluation con-

hire to evaluate the impact of the project; and, the full cost of build- ing inspection reviews during con- struction.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Where once white shingled victorians

housed doctor's and dentist offices, now glass and steel pokes through

the tops of maples and oaks to

house a twentieth century regional

center. Lebanon is located on the

Vermont/New Hampshire border mid-

way between Massachusetts and Canada. At the intersection of In- terstates#j89 sandy 9l;-esite is: -one

hundred and twenty miles from Bos-

ton and one hundred and fifty miles

from Hartford, Connecticut. Located at the junction of the Mascoma, White, and Connecticut Rivers, the

City grew from woolen mill profits

in the 1800's. Due largely to the

location of Dartmouth College and

Mary (^) Hitchcock Memorial (^) Hospital in

adjacent Hanover, a large and grow- ing Veteran's Administration Hospi- tal in “Hartford (White = ipaer

Junction), ~ Vermont) = as aree

hydropower generation facility, as

well as its proximity to some of the

largest ski areas in New England, the area has shown steady growth combined with low unemployment.

Transportation and Economy

Several trucking companies and two bus systems serve Lebanon. Transportation is further benefited by the Boston and Maine railroad, Amtrak, and full-service commercial airlines to New York, Boston, and

other major eastern cities from the

City's airport. The Lebanon,

Hanover, and Hartford (Vermont)

area constitute a regional economic

center for northern Vermont and New Hampshire. Large shopping malls at- tract consumers from a sixty mile

radius. Three major hospitals serve

persons from both states.

City Government

Lebanon was incorporated as a town in 1761 and granted a City Charter in 1958. The Charter established the

City under the Council/Manager form

of government. The City is governed

by a nine member City Council.

Three council members are elected at large, and two from each of three wards. Each ward elects councilors

to the City Council. Each councilor

holds office for a term of two years.

The Mayor and Assistant Mayor are

elected by the Council to serve a

one year term. The Mayor chairs the

Council meetings. The City Council

establishes policy relative to the administration of all fiscal, pruden- tial, and municipal affairs within

the City. The City Manager is the

chief executive officer of the City

and carries out the policies estab-

lished by the City Council.

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Appointed Officials

City Manager

Airport Manager

Building Inspector City Clerk Fire Chief Librarian Planner Police Chief Public Works Director Recreation Director Treasurer/Finance Director

Zoning Administrator

General government services are

provided by the City including police and fire protection, water, sewer service, and sanitary landfill, streets, municipal parking, health and welfare, library, and recrea- tional facilities. The City bills and

collects its own property taxes and

also collects taxes for Grafton County and the Lebanon School Dis-

trict (a separate corporate entity).

Steven L. Smith Marcel J. Theberge Parmly Wills Dorothy Doyle John D. Shaw, Jr. Jean E. Mansell Kenneth L. Niemczyk Donald L. Vittum George Gline Cindy M. Heath John P. Aubin Carmela Hennessey

City tax rates have been relatively stable over the past several years as the chart below shows. Growth in commercial and industrial land uses bode well for tax rates in the future while diminishing state and federal financial aid will create problems for local policymakers.

The following charts show the rela- tive growth of the three tax rates for the City and also the value of Building Permits over the past several years.

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REPORTS OF CITY DEPARTMENTS

AIRPORT

1989 was a successful year for the Lebanon Municipal Airport & Busi-

ness Park characterized by major

improvements and general upgrading

of both the Airport and the Business

Park.

The Airport and the Business Park

are owned and operated by the City

of Lebanon. No taxpayer funds go

to the Airport facility; it is totally

self-supporting. The Airport

facility is funded by user fees such

as tenant rents, landing fees, park-

ing lot fees, fuel flowage fees, and

other miscellaneous revenues. Capi- tal improvement projects such as

runway extension, land acquisition,

ramp and taxiway expansions, snow removal equipment, etc., are 90%

funded by the Federal Aviation Ad-

ministration (FAA) and funds are

derived by user fees rather than

taxpayer funds. Other Airport

projects such as an Instrument

Landing System (ILS), Microwave

Landing System (MLS), and other

landing aids and navigation

facilities are fully funded by the

FAA, also with user fees.

The Airport staff consists of an air-

port manager, operations supervisor,

secretary, bookkeeper, maintenance

foreman, three maintenance men, ten part-time snow removal and three summer employees. The Airport

staff has the responsibility of

managing, operating, planning, developing, and maintaining all

areas of the Airport which encom-

passes approximately 1,000 acres.

These areas include runways,

taxiways, ramps, the parking lot and

terminal building. The staff is also

responsible for grounds maintenance to include mowing, snow removal

(which amounts to over sixty miles

approach tree runways,

per snow storm),

clearing, painting of taxiways, and buildings.

Airport tenants and lessees include Business Express/Delta Connection, Precision/Northwest Airlink Airlines; Avis, Hertz and National car rental

agencies; Phylly's Gift Shop; the

Airport restaurant and lounge;

LADCO fixed base operations; and

AMCA International's air transporta-

tion facility. FAA facilities include

the Air Traffic Control Tower and

Airways Facilities Sector Field Of-

fices.

Airport activity in 1989 totaled al-

most 66,000 operations and sixty-six

based aircraft. The breakdown of

aircraft landing activity is as fol-

lows:

General Aviation 48,

Commercial Airlines £ Air Charter S

Military raghs.

MISC (After Control

Tower Hours) 5,

TOTAL 65,

The Upper Valley has one of the finest air transportation systems in the country for the size of the com- munity. The Airport is served by Business Express/Delta Connection and Precision/ Northwest Airlink

Airlines with approximately twenty

flights per day to Boston, MA; Hartford, CT; New York, NY; and Manchester, NH. Airline enplanements for the year totaled 39,367 pas- sengers which is the second highest amount of enplanements in the his- tory of the Airport while total pas- sengers amounted to approximately 80,000. Freight enplaned totaled 33,528 pounds, and freight deplaned totaled 2,200 pounds.

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For the past three years, significant attention was given to setting the foundation for development of Phase I - fifty acres in the Airport Busi- ness Park. Of greatest impact was

the funding for such a project. In

1985, a $600,000 grant was received from the Economic Development Ad-

ministration (EDA) and a _ $200,

Community Development Block Grant

(CDBG) from the New Hampshire Of-

fice of State Planning. Construction of water and sewer lines and access roads commenced during the summer

of 1986. Stage I construction, con-

sisting of a portion of Airpark Road and all of Commerce Avenue, with water and sewer, were completed in the Fall of 1987. Thus far, eleven

buildings have been completed, three

buildings are currently under con-

struction, and two more buildings

will be under construction this year.

Total estimated property taxes at

$25,000 per lot would general ap-

proximately $500,000 per year in ad-

ditional tax revenues to the City of

Lebanon. This project will greatly

improve the marketability of the

Business Park and should result in

an increase of light industrial development in the years ahead.

Completed last spring under FAA

Grant AIP-07 was the construction of an addition to the Airport main-

tenance building costing $218,000;

purchase of snow removal equipment

consisting of a large front-end

loader for $90,000 and a runway

broom sweeper for $36,400; and

design of a 3,000 foot taxiway exten-

Sion to Runway 25 for $97,000. Total

cost of the projects was $482,

with funding as follows:

FAA $ 433,

NH DOT 24,

Airport 24,

Also completed last fall under FAA

Grant AIP-09 was the construction of

the airline ramp expansion with

lights, a segmented circle with lighted wind indicator, security

fencing with three electronic card-

actuated gates, and a direct access road from the maintenance shop to the Airport. Total cost of the

projects was $623,000 with funding

as follows:

FAA 560,

NH DOT 25,

Airport 37200

Current projects include an Airport

Master Plan Update, FAA Grant AIP-

05, to be completed this year. This

project costs $57,000 which includes FAA funds of $40,000, NH DOT Divi- sion of Aeronautics funds of $2, and Airport funds of $14,778. A second grant in the works and al- most completed, FAA AIP-08, includes construction of a 3,000 foot taxiway

extension to the approach of Runway

25, a retaining wall, and taxiway lights and markings. Total cost of

the projects is $1,516,000 with fund-

ing as follows:

FAA $ 1,364,

NH DOT 75,

Airport 75,

The main objective for 1990 is to

continue development of the Busi-

ness Park Phase I (west side). Addi-

tional objectives are to obtain a

grant from FAA and NH DOT Division

of Aeronautics to purchase a Crash,

Fire, Rescue (CFR) vehicle estimated

to cost $250,000; to obtain a second grant from FAA and the State to

construct a General Aviation ramp

expansion and Phase I reconstruc- tion of the east 2,400 feet of Runway 7-25 estimated to cost $1.2 million.

The City Council has shown much

progress in establishing a founda- tion for the continued development of the Airport and the Business

Park facilities along practical and

progressive lines. The Council has demonstrated that these facilities

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Election Results from March 13, 1990 Municipal Election

Ward 1 Ward 2 Ward 3 Total

NUMBER OF BALLOTS CAST 274 366 328 968

NAMES ON CHECKLIST 2577 2214 2091 6882

For Ward Councilors (2 year terms)

*Feno H. Truax 236

*Forrest G. Cole 326

*David J. Jescavage 275

For Councilors at Large (2 year terms)

*Frank E. Mastro 219 284 275 778 *John H. Wasson 231 298 286 815

(* Candidates Declared Elected)

City Clerk Selected Vital Statistics:

Births Deaths Marriages

JAN 24 £5 9 102 4 5

FEB eal 23 8 eZ a 8

MAR 30 19 6 7 = 4

APR ot 18 S) 2 9 aOh

MAY 3 25 tak 10 12 16

JNE 34 34 hy 14. L1, 18

JLY 26 29 6 Teel PES 1D

AUG 42 Ze i i 25 18

SEPT 28 Za 10 16 20 Are!

OCT Sif. 30 vbat LZ 9 14

NOV 44 Bo 11 aot 6 F

DEC 26 24 2 Asal 6 9

TOTL 364 293 Los 128 2 136

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Auto Registration Application Tran

fees \ 1988 91989 / 21988. 19

New Regs Transfers

JAN 202 198 Tat 78 7

FEB 162 176 78 114 2

MAR 263 230 akaBy 106 9

APR 277 340 102 abe ii

MAY 405 344 215 Loo 9

gure 3201 279 93 101 7 AUG 248 289 102 ihras 6 SEP 246 299 105 104 7 OOTP 223 224 86 70 7 NOV 192 182 120 96 7 DEC 180 165 78 80 6

TOT Ost 3044 1178 1348 91

Total Transactions 135371 Total Collections 1,022,

BUILDING INSPECTION STATISTICS

TOP TEN PERMITS ISSUED IN 1989

Owner Location

lst NH Bank StaParkesie

of Lebanon

VGM Boulder Dr.

Jeff Johnson Poverty Lane

Land Mark Bank 78 Hanover St.

Valley Investment i4\ 12) Aixpark

Holleran/Klarich 17 Airpark

Longacre/Ponderosa Route 12-A

Plasma Tech 4 Airpark

K-Mart Dept. Store K-Mart Plaza

American Legion Mechanic St.

Total value of permits issued in 1989:

Fees collected in 1989:

sactions:

89 \ 1988 1989 / 1988

Renewals TOTALS

41 tigeipao2eel 2 $275,

07 833 SS i004 95,

ZZ 906 99,067 96,

67 LS 68,007 76,

78 603 86,046 fe 1.

Type of Occupancy Value

Bank renovations $2,000,

Multi-family 1,348,

Single family home 800,

Bank\Office 700,

Industrial\Office 640,

Industrial\Office 582,

Restaurant 450,

Industrial\Office 413,

Retail\addition 375,

Membership club^ B69^ PhS

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Communications General Activity Summary

Type: 1986 1987

CFS 15,664 16, TSR 32,873 64, SPOTS 66,409 91,

1988 1989 % increase *

18,643 Zo, 502 48 % Sas o7 14,871 a50"% 87,695 1 SAZ65 9 %

* This reflects the percentage increase from 1986 to 1989.

Such as a parking complaint, burglary, chimney fire, grass fire.

These are calls from the public that

require a response.

Telephone Service Rendered (TSR):

These are calls received from the

public that require no further ac-

tion. Examples would be: times city departments opens, directions,

and general information.

State Police On-line Telecommunica-

tions System (SPOTS): This is a na-

tional computer network that con- nects ‘all city, county, state and federal agencies together. This net- work provides the police with license information, vehicle owner- ship information, criminal records, and the like.

The Communication Department con-

tinually strives to provide the best available service to the public. In January of 1989, the Communications Department along with New England Telephone implemented our Emer- gency 9-1-1 telephone network. The 9-1-1 network provides faster access to the public when in need of safety services. Another program in-

stituted was the county's first Emer-

gency Medical Dispatch System. Every Communication Specialist was certified in giving basic first aid and CPR instruction over the telephone.

I am very pleased with the in- dividual contributions made by each member of the Communications

Department and the impact made by the Department in providing the public quality safety services.

I would like to thank the City Ad- ministration and the public that we serve for all of their support.

Respectfully Submitted,

Paul M. Roberts Commander

LIBRARIES

For the second year in a row, the

major capital expenditures for the

libraries were at the West Lebanon Library. The upstairs meeting room at the West Lebanon facility was refurbished with plaster and paint, and new windows were installed in

the children's room. The building is

gradually being renovated in order

to allow use of the upstairs meeting room Sfore book!® stacks. The

downstairs is very overcrowded.

The slebanonsbibrary=*hase,been having to deal with a chronic sewer problem for the past few years. The Sewer Department has_ recently solved our problem after a great deal of digging to find the line. Ap-

parently, our sewer pipe was

crushed years^ ago,^ but^ we^ had^ no major back-up until after the addi- tion became utilized. Now, all is well, and we no longer need to worry when a big storm is predicted.

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Early in 1989 the Library Department started furnishing services to the McKerley Health Care patients. Alice Peck Day Hospital has had the benefit of library services for more than ten years. The Lebanon Lions Club donates money each year for

large-print books which most of the

patients need, and magazines are

donated by the public for use in the

health care centers.

1989 will always be remembered by the present library staff as the year we really became lenders of books- on-tape and videos. We had pur- chased a few the previous year, but the demand did not become evident until last year. The library coop to which we belong purchased a core PBS collection with the help of the McArthur Foundation, and the mem- ber libraries share these. We are also paying money annually toward a fund to purchase more videos each year, and these will be swapped on a bimonthly basis among the coop members.

The children's programs centered

around the Library of Congress

designation of 1989 as "The Year of

the Young Reader". In our libraries,

we tried to entice those readers and

included their parents with special

programming.

Half-hour story-related programs

were given every other week for preschoolers at each library.

Audiences ranged in age from 2 1/

years to 5 years, plus their parents and younger siblings.

For special programs, our summer

reading event," Books are the

Greatest Show on Earth" should be

highlighted. We shared its planning, publicity, and family events with the Hanover and Etna libraries. It in- cluded children from the age of three to those entering sixth grade;

a record number of 268 registered in

Lebanon's libraries, and 176 finished.

Other enticements were weekly eve- ning programs by storytellers, il- lustrators, and puppet shows at each library. Additionally, we hosted professional storytellers at each library during February school vaca-

tion and Children's Book Week in

November. In March, a local group called, "The Story String" told folktales one evening to the com- munity. During April school vaca-

tion, a puppet show, "Elephantasy"

was given. Our October, "Scarcely

Scary Stories" and December's

origami workshop and folktale ses- sion have become traditional.

Our school connections took place irregularly by request of teachers

or the Children’s: ‘Librarian:

Teachers invited her to tell stories and talk about folklore as well as

to talk about public library serv-

ices.

We have been fortunate in having volunteers from the community to help with these programs.

Respectfully Submitted,

Jean Mansell Library Director

PLANNING

During 1989, the City Manager and

Council decided to re-establish the function and presence of the Plan- ning Department. On May 1, the new

City Planner began employment with

the City. In re-establishing the of- fice, one of the first tasks for the

Planner was to learn the existing

operational procedures of the

various city offices, boards, and

commissions; to learn what the City wants in the way of land develop- ment; and, to learn what the law re- quires and allows. With this foun- dation in place, the Planning Office began work with the Planning Board

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