Excerpt from 1962, Annual Report Thanks to an able Planning Board and a fully competent Director we have been able, with the cooperation of our citizens, to meet the challenge of constant change in an orderly manner. Other important activities successfully completed during the year were the presentation of the case for Concord as the site for the proposed New Hamp shire Technical Institute, and the preparation of a workable program for com munity improvement. This brief review of the year 1962 would be incomplete without mention of Concord's new regional shopping center. The opening of this major shopping facility marks the beginning of a new era in local merchandising and fore shadows the promise of future progress by private enterprise toward a better community. While the demand for municipal services continues to grow, your city govern ment has been mindful of the need to practice strict economy in full knowledge of the heavy tax burden placed on property by New Hampshire's narrow-base tax structure. Nevertheless, no effort has been spared to provide those services which are essential to the health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of the community. The item of taxes is an all important one, and although my recommendation that a complete revaluation by an outside appraisal firm was turned down, I still feel that the City will eventually come to it, or as an alternative, furnish the Assessing Department with enough office space to engage additional personnel to complete the job ourselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.