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Essex town manager outlines minor charter cleanups, appointment changes in H.516 review
Summary
Greg Dugan, town manager of Essex, told the Vermont House Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee that H.516 packages mostly small, technical and procedural changes and a few adjustments to appointment authority.
Greg Dugan, town manager of Essex, told the Vermont House Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee that H.516, an act to approve amendments to the Town of Essex charter, packages mostly small, technical and procedural changes and a few adjustments to appointment authority.
The changes stem from a 2022 Charter Review Committee created by the Select Board, Dugan said. "We formed the Town Forum, Select Board formed a Charter Review Committee," he said, and that committee proposed changes which were brought to voters at the 2023 and 2025 town meetings.
The amendments would update several passages to reflect Essex's switch to Australian ballot voting, clarify the town moderator's role as primarily overseeing informational hearings rather than presiding over an in-person…
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