Arlington Town Meeting

The 2006 Annual Town Meeting of the Town of Arlington starts tomorrow, 24 April, at 20:00 in Town Hall. It will be preceded by BOS Chair Kevin Greeley’s “State of the Town” address at 19:00.

On the other hand, a reading of the Town Manager Act might indicate that the Annual Town Meeting actually started on the day of the Town Election and that what starts tomorrow is merely the part of TM that TMMs can exclusive act on. The Act talks about how the Town as a whole will determine the various elected officers and that the TMMs are the only ones who can act on all the other articles. To me, that implies that TM has already begun, as article(s) in the warrant (the election one(s)) have already been acted on.

Related to that, the Town Manager Act also says that nothing in it abridges the voters’ (state) constitutional right to have “general meetings”. So what does that mean? Is there still some way for an old-fashioned Open Town Meeting to be called? How would that happen? If anyone knows, I’d love to hear the answer.

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