June 4th Select Board Newsletter
Dear Stratham Residents,
Please read below for news and notes from the Town of Stratham. We thank everyone for your patience and support as we work through the pandemic and resulting changes to our services and programs.
In this edition:
Town Meeting reminder
Bunker Hill / Portsmouth Ave. Intersection
How to file for State Office
Town Clerk closed June 5th
Sign up for Code Red
Curbside Collection Advisory Committee meeting
Please remind your neighbors about this resource for keeping on top of information from the Town. To sign-up for these updates and other notifications, please visit: https://www.strathamnh.gov/subscribe.
The Select Board
Michael Houghton, Chairman Joe Lovejoy, Vice Chair Allison Knab
REMINDER ABOUT TOWN MEETING
Town Meeting will be held on Saturday, July 11th at 9:00 am at the Stratham Memorial School, 39 Gifford Farm Road. More information about the meeting and opportunities to re-engage with the business to be conducted will be forthcoming. Here is a link to the Voter Information Guide.
TOWN OFFICES AND COVID 19
The Select Board and Town Administration are closely following guidance pertaining to the COVID 19 response, including ways in which the Town will operate in the pandemic enviornment. Protocols for safety, circulation changes, building modifications (barriers at service points), and other procedures are being prepared to best adhere to recommendations that will allow us to reopen our Town Offices, most likely through a series of phases over the next few weeks. Please stay tune to this newsletter for more information.
Meanwhile, residents and other members of the public are still able to transact business with the Town through electronic means including mail, telephone, our website, and appointments on a case-by-case basis. If you have questions about any Town services or how we have modified our ways of doing business as this time please contact us.
UPDATE ON BUNKER HILL / PORTSMOUTH AVE. INTERSECTION
Recently, at a Rockingham Planning Commission/Metropolitan Planning Organization meeting an amendment to the State Ten Year Transportation Plan assigning engineering monies to FY 2021 for the Bunker Hill Avenue Intersection with Portsmouth Avenue (NH 108) was appproved. This amendment has the effect of advancing the project schedule. If you would like more information on this TIP amendment, please see here. For more informaiton about the Ten Year Plan, please see here. A description of the entire project can be found on page 187 of the Plan (page 174 of the plan itself).
TOWN CLERK/TAX COLLECTOR'S OFFICE
The Town Clerk/Tax Collector’s office will be closed on Friday, June 5th.
FILING FOR STATE OFFICE
Residents wishing to file for State Office in the September 8, 2020 Primary for State Representative or for Delegate for the Republican State Convention must file at the Town Clerk’s Office from June 3rd 2020 to June 12, 2020. Please call us when you arrive and we will bring out the paperwork to your car. (603-772-4741, ext. 140). You must be a registered voter and provide ID. Our parking lot hours are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 8:30-3:30 during this filing period. In addition, the last day of filing, (Friday, June 12th), the Town Clerk will be available from 3:00 to 5:00 for filing purposes only at the Municipal Center. Again, please call us when you have arrived at the Municipal Center parking lot. All other elected positions for the Primary must be filed at the Secretary of State’s Office.
NEW INFORMATION ABOUT VOTING AND COVID
Please follow this link for important information from the State regarding absentee voting.
REMINDER: SIGN UP FOR STRATHAM EMERGENCY ALERTS THROUGH THE NH EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM
Residents may be aware (and already signed-up for) of Code Red Alerts from the State of New Hampshire. The State has recently enabled Towns to deliver important messages to their residents regarding emergencies through the use of the same database. That means if you signed up for Code Red Alerts from the State using your Stratham address, you are already signed-up to recieve emergency notices from the Town.
If you have not already signed-up for Code Red Alerts, please consider it. Doing so will enable you to receive geo-targeted, time-sensitive alerts from the Town of Stratham as well (e.g. traffic impacts of local events or emergencies).
Please take a moment and follow this link (https://www.onsolve.com/landing/sign-up-for-codered-emergency-alerts/) to register for the CodeRED emergency notification system. You may receive notifications via email, SMS, voice, mobile app push notifications, and more depending on the severity of the situation.
Stay safe - sign up today!
CURBSIDE COLLECTION ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING
The CCAC will hold a telemeeting on Tuesday, June 9th at 6:00 pm. They will discuss the results of the survey and next steps. All are welcome to join in on the call. Here is the agenda with the dial in number.