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Select Board signals closed window for new warrant-article requests ahead of special town meeting
Summary
With a special town meeting about six weeks away, the Select Board said Sept. 15 it is treating the warrant window as closed for new additions and urged departments to submit placeholders to the town office; board members said drafts exist but final language must be submitted promptly.
The Select Board told departments on Sept. 15 that the town is treating the window for new warrant-article requests as closed ahead of an upcoming special town meeting in approximately six weeks, and urged staff to have placeholder language submitted to the town office. A Select Board member said that while a few draft warrant items exist in the office, the board is "considering the door closed" for late additions and that departments should have sent placeholders to Brian or the town office by the deadline. The board emphasized it cannot leave items to the "eleventh hour" given the meeting timetable and that items will instead be carried to the next meeting when appropriate. The board did not adopt a procedural motion recorded in the transcript; this was presented as administrative direction to staff and departments. Several items that had been on a longer agenda were deferred to a later meeting because the board was operating with an abbreviated membership on Sept. 15.
