Select Board and Treasurer Resign

Town Clerk Sophie Seace reports that there will be no Select Board meeting tomorrow. The town has reqeusted that the state appoint two new Selectmen. Thanks, Sophie, for your fast action in alerting the state and working with the Town's legal advisors.

Here's Sophie's notice. You can find the packet she submitted to the state Superior Court here.

To the residents of Orange,

On Wednesday evening, June 17, 2015, I received resignation notice from the remaining two Selectmen, Pat Mercer and George White. Along with that was also resignation notice from the Treasurer Cathey Bean. I discussed the situation with the Secretary of State's office on Thursday morning and was advised to work with the Town Attorneys office. What you see here is the result of that effort.

This situation will be handled as timely as possible under the direction by the State of New Hampshire Superior  Court. At this time there will be NO SELECTMEN MEETINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

For your understanding, the packet submitted to the Superior Court is here. Please feel free to call the Town Clerks office 603-523-4467, or email orangetownclerk@myfairpoint.net, if you have questions or concerns and I will do my best to reply. 

I will post updates to this situation here as well as the office bulletin as we make progress.

Respectfully,
Sophie L Seace
Town Clerk

Update on Monday, June 22, 2015 at 4:02PM by OrangeNH

I'm having technical difficulties posting the entire petition. The most relevant part states that it requests the state appoint Bob Ells and Skip Smith to replace the resigned Selectmen. -Jay

Update on Monday, June 22, 2015 at 6:44PM by OrangeNH

Sophie asked us to reiterate that the court has not yet appointed the two Select Board members; the Town has made a request through its petition to appoint Bob Ells and Skip Smith. Here's the petition itself.