Gilford, New Hampshire
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Gilford is a town in Belknap County in the U.S. state of New Hampshire.
Population Trends: Population change for Gilford totaled 5,585 over 50 years, from 1,251 in 1950 to 6,836 in 2000. The largest decennial percent change was 63 percent between 1950 and 1960, followed by increases of 58 percent and 50 percent over the next two decades. The 2006 Census estimate for Gilford was 7,453 residents, which ranked 41st among New Hampshire's incorporated cities and towns.
[edit] Website evaluation
- Main article: Evaluation of New Hampshire township websites
[edit] The good
- Meeting minutes for township meetings are posted online.[1]
- Township officials and their contact information are posted online.[2]
- Selectmen and their contact information are posted online.[3]
- The checkbook register will be posted online.[4]
- Forms are available for planning and zoning.[5]
[edit] The check register
Blogger, Skip Murphy, pushed the town selectmen to post their check register online and on February 12, 2009 the township agreed to start posting it.[6][7]
[edit] The bad
- Local taxes are not listed, but there is a list of exemptions.[8]
- Audits are not available online.
- Contract bids are not posted.
- Information is not posted on how to file for public records.
- Disclosure of membership to a taxpayer-funded lobbying association is not noted.
[edit] Township news
March 14, 2008--Selectmen fired Town Administrator Evans Juris and named Assistant Town Administrator Debra Shackett as interim administrator.
In the wake of his firing, Juris protested that Town Administrators have been meeting in private, violating Right to Know laws. "I have, in the past, expressed concerns, privately then publicly, that a quorum of the Board of Selectmen might be communicating in private to discuss and to make
[edit] See also
- More on the Gilford Community
[edit] External links
- Gilford government website
- Gilford, City-data
- State profile
- Gilford Public Library
- Gilford Police Department
- New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau Profile
[edit] References
Portions of this article were taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under the GNU license
