What the board of selectmen seem to want you to void; they are looking for Town Meeting to approve the selectmen to continue to pack committees with members of the select board, who later fail to show up for those committee meetings.
Massachusetts General Law chapter 268A
Section 21A: Members of municipal commission or board; restrictions on appointments to certain positions
Section 21A. Except as hereinafter provided, no member of a municipal commission or board shall be eligible for appointment or election by the members of such commission or board to any office or position under the supervision of such commission or board. No former member of such commission or board shall be so eligible until the expiration of thirty days from the termination of his service as a member of such commission or board.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to a member of a town commission or board, if such appointment or election has first been approved at an annual town meeting of the town.
Selectmen are also involved in trying to limit what the Advisory Committee can comment on at Town Meeting. The question I have is; why do the selectmen wish to limit what the Advisory Committee has to say concerning the Town Meeting warrant? I do know one thing, selectmen cannot stop individuals from asking questions or commenting on warrant articles, not yet anyway.
It's good to see that the BOS has decided to put this before the Town Meeting. It is my belief that we should not approve this article. I understand that as a BOS I would want members on every board and committee as it makes it much easier to promote an agenda. That is exactly the reason I think this article should be defeated.
ReplyDeleteGetting people to sign up for committees is difficult. That is no reason to stack committees with Selectman.
Rather than place Selectman on every committee in town we should be creating a method to transfer information among committee so it is easier for everyone to know what is going on without being required to attend every meeting.
The Dep.of Revenue told us to stop having the members of the Board of Selectmen on all of the committee's in town. This was done in the Echo Hill days. The need to controll what goes on, i these meetings is not healthy for our town.
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