The Hooksett Highway Safety Advisory Board met on July 31, 2026, at 9:31 AM. Members discussed school traffic issues, fire department infrastructure, approved the 2026-2027 meeting schedule, reviewed e-bike policy, addressed a board vacancy, considered a fire apparatus turnaround on North Candia Road, and decided to request a traffic study on roads in the Lower Road area. All members were present. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.
Old Business
New Business
Good of the Board
Note: No public comments were received.
Pretty much just make sure we use our microphones too, please. All right. Um like to call the order, the meeting to order. You got 9 30. Well that says 20 of 931. 931. Uh all right. I guess we'll take attendance real quick and then we'll do the pledge. Go around the room. Dave, we could start with you. David Smith, present. Captain James Riley, present. Uh Captain Robolinski, hooks at fire, present. James and Sakley, present. Leanne McLaughlin. Thomas Martulla, present. Bill Ririck, present. Gerald and Ciadelli. Present here. All right. If we can stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag on the United States in America. And to the Republic for which it stands when we nation under God. Liberty Scorrel. All right, I guess we'll start with old business. School traffic backup and pick up and drop off. Any updates on that or we're gonna be sending out the uh letters to our parents. We're gonna remind them uh about aids and recommend that they take the bus, you know, that the buses are there. Uh also uh carpool whenever possible, and also the uh third idea that we talked about at the last meeting, the basically have your kid ready, you know, the backpack, you know, don't be doing it in the car, you know, to try to speed things up, that kind of stuff. Otherwise, as we talked about last time, the the uh footprints at memorial and um more so even at underhill is are so small there's not a whole lot of room for uh other options other than the parents again. We asked the parents, we remind them throughout the year when they should be dropping their kids off, picking them up, and they still will show up early and just sit there and wait and wait. I haven't had a chance to meet with Andre about the possibility would it be feasible for us at memorial instead of having the traffic come up from 3A and pull in. Could we have them go down the hill, turn around and come back and then drop off that way to alleviate the pressure on Route 3? I'm not sure if I haven't talked to Andre whether that's even feasible or not or viable. Okay. Uh sounds like a good start to a new year to remind parents anyway of all those things. So uh at least that's a start in the right direction. Right, Chair. Yeah, good so I mean I did um just speak to Bill 4 and kind of sat down just because I did miss uh the last two meetings. I apologize. One I was out of state, the other one I actually missed it totally the next day. I was like, ooh. So uh, but I'm still in favor of um either imposing or um bringing forward some sort of fee-based scenario for someone who potentially wants to bring their child to school. And my basis for that is that um well, one is the experience of dropping my child off uh when she was in kindergarten in the beginning, and then within three or maybe five weeks at the most, she was on the bus just because of the time it takes. But I also staff, I mean I think there's five people plus yes, and that's on the outside. Both schools we have staff both on the inside and outside, right? Pick up and drop off. Yeah, and um it is a lengthy process. Um I wouldn't bring the safety issue into it because I think it's very safe. What I've seen at Underhill there's not a lot of chance unless there's like a huge mishap.