Select Board
The Select Board, acting as a board and not individually, manages the affairs of the Town.
They are authorized to:
- Propose a budget to the Budget Committee and voters
- Set tax rates
- Authorize the spending money within the total voter approved appropriation
- Manage finances
- Managing roads, facilities and employees
- Appoint officials
- Convey land
- Layout highways
- Issue licenses
- Set fees
- Establish welfare guidelines
- Hold hearings
- Communicate for the Town
- Establish Town policy
- Adopt many types of ordinances
- Select Board Meetings
The next regularly scheduled meeting will be at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, May 7th, 2024, at the EOC – 52 NH Route 118.
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Town of Canaan is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Zoom participants will be required to identify themselves by first and last name after being allowed into the meeting to remain in the meeting. You may identify yourself by typing your name in the chat box. Please include everyone participating.
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The Select Board meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month. The meetings are at the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) which is at the back of the Police Station at 52 NH Route 118 at 6:00 pm. Watch here for changes in dates or times.
Meeting agendas are posted on the Board outside of the Town Office and in the Town Office Lobby. To be on the agenda, please contact the office 603-523-4501, ext. 105 or by email: townadmin@canaannh.org by the Friday prior to the meeting.
If additional meetings are scheduled by the Board, they will receive a separate posting at the same locations.
| Budget Committee: | Sadie Wells |
| Capital Improvement Program Committee: | Scott Johnston |
| Cemetery Trustees: | |
| Conservation Commission: | Sadie Wells |
| Historic District Committee: | Scott Johnston |
| Library Trustees: | Sadie Wells |
| Meetinghouse Preservation Committee: | Scott Johnston |
| Planning Board: | Stephen Freese |
| Museum Curators Committee: | |
| Recreation Commission: | Stephen Freese |
| Trustees of the Trust Funds: | Stephen Freese |
| Economic Development Committee: | Sadie Wells |
| Canaan Street Lake Association: | Stephen Freese |
| Source Water Protection: | Stephen Freese |
Email: townadmin@canaannh.org
Phone: 603-523-4501 ext 105