A motion to "pass over" an article in the warrant shall not be entertained until a motion incorporating the substance of said article is before the meeting and at least one voter has spoken in favor thereof, unless, after a reasonable opportunity so to do, no voter makes such motion or speaks in favor thereof. A motion to "pass over" shall be debatable as to its merits but not as to the merits of the article.
At about 2:03;58 into town meeting, a motion to pass over article 11 was made by I believe Mathew Rivard second by selectman Griffis to pass over article 11. Clearly in the town bylaws, a motion on the article needs to be made first before any motion to pass over the article can be made. Since no main motion was made, kind of hard for anyone to speak in favor of the motion. Once again, this current board of selectmen failed to follow town bylaws and fail to even know them or perhaps ignore them.
The selectmen insist on making all the motions, so, they need to know the procedure (s) to do so.
If someone was paying attention they'd likely think these Selectboard members didn't know what they were doing.
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