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Glines Park - Click here to explore all of Northfield's recreational opportunities Sign-up to receive agendas and meeting minutes each week. If you sign up for this service you will receive weekly emails with links to agendas for upcoming meetings and the minutes of meetings from the prior week. Please be advised that the Selectboard does not post minutes until they have been approved. Sign-Up to receive news updates If you sign up for this service you will receive a weekly email newsletter with information of upcoming town and community events.     Click here for the latest Northfield News Click here for audio recordings of Selectboard Meetings LATEST ANNOUNCEMENTS TAX RELIEF PROGRAM FOR PERSONS WITH LOW AND MODERATE INCOME:Applications accepted only during the filing period - after May 1, but no later than June 30th. Starting on April 29, 2014, application forms (Form DP-8) will be available at the Town Hall and on the NH Department of Revenue Administration’s web site - http://www.revenue.nh.gov/forms/documents/dp-8.pdf. This is a fillable pdf form. This NH Dept. of Revenue website also has the following information:•    Online Claim Status Check•    Answers to Frequently Asked QuestionsIn addition, Hall Memorial Library allows residents to utilize their computer internet services to complete and print a Form DP-8 for submission by mail, the cost to print at HML is $.15 per page, you will only need to print the first two pages.  Residents who do not have access to the Internet or who cannot pick up a form the Town Hall may request a Form DP-8 by calling the NH Department of Revenue Admin Forms Line at (603) 230-5001. Older versions of the Form DP-8 will not be accepted by the DepartmentWho is eligible?•    Single with adjusted gross income equal to or less than $20,000; or•    Married or head of NH household with adjusted gross income less than or equal to $40,000; and•    Owns a homestead subject to the State Education Property Tax; and•    Has resided in that homestead on April 1 or the year for which the claim is made. When and where do I apply for relief?Completed claims, Form DP-8, shall be filed with the Department no sooner than May 1, 2014 and no later than June 30, 2014. Mail your claim to:NH Dept of Revenue Administration Document Processing Division PO Box 299 Concord, NH 03302-0299 The law allows 120 days (approximately 4 months) for processing from the date of receipt of your completed claim received by the Department between May 1 and June 30. CITIZEN OF THE YEAR NOMINATION: The Old Home Day Committee is looking for your help to select the next Northfield Citizen of the Year.  Please click here for instruction.  Thank you for your help. ANNUAL PROPERTY REVIEWS BEGIN NEXT WEEKThe Town of Northfield contracts with Cross Country Appraisal Group LLC (CCAG) for property assessing services.  Each year CCAG assessors visit one-quarter of the improved properties in town to help ensure the accuracy of the information on the property assessment cards.This year’s property assessments are due to begin on Monday April 28th.  The CCAG appraisers will be visiting properties listed on tax maps R06, R10, R11, R12, R13, R14, R15 (please check your tax bill for your map number), If your property is scheduled to be visited this year you will receive a card in the mail from CCAG during the week of April 21st. All appraisers have ID badges and signs on their cars. A list of the appraisers with their pictures and license information is available by clicking here, at the Town Office and Police Station. You are not obligated to let the appraisers on your property, but it will help us insure that the next assessment is accurate.  If you do not want an appraiser going onto your property, please contact the Town Office at 286-7039. The appraisers are there to measure the exterior of all buildings on the property.  If the homeowner or occupant is home the appraiser will ask to walk through the interior of the buildings. If nobody is home the appraisers will measure the outside of the buildings and leave a note stating that they were at the property and that the homeowner will be contacted at a later date to request an interior inspection.The appraisers will only enter a building if there is a person 18 years of age or older to show them through the building. CHANGED YOUR OIL LATELY?If you need to dispose of used motor oil please bring it down to the Northfield Transfer Station.  The Transfer Station can take oil from any non-commercial source in town and will use it to heat both their facility and the Highway Garage.  The taxpayers save about $10,000 a year by heating these two buildings with used motor oil.2014 DOG LICENSES ARE IN!!Dogs need to be registered by April 30.  Please come in or call us at 286-4482 to request registration by mail.  We can also check if your dog’s rabies vaccination is up-to-date.License fees:       Puppies (4-7 months)      $6.50       Spayed or Neutered        $6.50       Male/Female                   $9.00       Owner over age 65          $2.00  (first dog only, additional dogs at regular price)       Kennel/Group Home       $20.00 (must have 5 or more dogs to qualify)If you no longer have a dog, please let us know so we may update our records.TAX RATE DROPS BY $1.17(posted 11/1):  Northfield’s taxpayers will see a dip in the tax rate when bills are mailed out later this week.  The 2013 tax rate is $26.83, or $1.17 less than the 2012 rate of $28.00.   The overall decrease is the result of a lowering of the town, county and local school portions of the tax rate. This was partially offset by increases in the TN Fire District and state school portions of the tax rate.   Once again in 2013 the Northfield Selectmen were able to use funds from the town undesignated fund balance to help offset the taxpayers’ burdens and keep the overall tax rate as low as possible. 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