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The Zoning Board will meet on Thursday, February 12 at 6 p.m. and the following cases will be heard.
Throughout her 45-minute attempt at a victory lap, the Governor rattled off a laundry list of “accomplishments” and cherry-picked accolades from her time on the job. But at no point in her remarks did Ayotte display a genuine understanding of the dire financial straits that Granite Staters are facing under Republican leadership. And for all her talk about prioritizing affordability, she has a track record that says the exact opposite.
Prior to the regularly scheduled Feb. 3, 2026 Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA), a special hearing was held to allow public comment on a proposed tax increment financing (TIF) district in Manchester’s downtown area.
A pair of proposed ordinance amendments proposed by Manchester resident Troy Micklon will be heading for further review after the Tuesday, Feb. 3 Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting.
“I don’t think it’s acceptable that the federal government has not provided more transparency on this,” Ayotte said.
New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte used her State of the State address on Thursday to highlight accomplishments from her first year in office, and lay out a roadmap for what might come next.
At the February 3, 2026 meeting of the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen, I spoke during the public comment portion to raise a practical issue related to snow removal and winter parking enforcement that many residents experience every winter, and to provide the Board with draft ordinance language for its consideration.
A program recently touted by the state as critical to building more housing, yet not funded in the current state budget, took another step toward being scrapped, with a New Hampshire House vote in favor of repealing it Thursday.
At their Feb. 3, 2026 meeting, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved a memorandum of understanding with the Manchester School District that would approve an independent audit of the Manchester School District, a key part of the mayor’s STARS (streamlining, taxpayer accountability and reform system) initiative.
Leaders of Manchester’s Department of Public Works provided a presentation to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen during their Feb. 3, 2026 meeting that had a stark message: continuing current road repaving funding levels will lead to average road in the city becoming “poor” in the near future.