Windsor consolidates voter petitioning powers into town code
Feb 9, 2026
Ordinance No. 2026-1741 was adopted unanimously to consolidate initiative, referendum, recall, and initiated home-rule charter procedures into one code article and to require the town clerk to publish standardized petition templates (staff will not alter petition language).
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The Town Board unanimously adopted Ordinance No. 2026-1741, which creates a new Article X in Chapter 1 of Windsor’s municipal code to consolidate rules governing initiatives, referenda, recalls and initiated home-rule charter amendments. Town Clerk Karen Frawley presented the ordinance and said it standardizes processes now scattered across the state constitution, local charter, state law and various ordinances.
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