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State rep. Tommy Vitolo briefs Select Board on Brookline home-rule petitions, urges focus on which to refile
Summary
Representative Tommy Vitolo told the Select Board that Brookline filed 16 home-rule petitions last session and only one passed; he advised selectivity for refiling and explained the procedural constraints for petitions that have failed twice.
Representative Tommy Vitolo briefed the Brookline Select Board on Feb. 4 about the town’s recent home-rule petitions, describing which items passed, which did not and how the refiling process works at the state legislature.
Vitolo said Brookline filed 16 petitions in the last legislative session and passed one — an Article 97 home-rule petition allowing geothermal work at Pierce School that required a two-thirds legislative majority and tight deadlines. He thanked town staff, the town administrator, the Select Board and the town’s legislative partners for shepherding that item through at the last hour of…
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