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Council debates how to restart West Warwick recreation committee: formal board or volunteer working groups?
Summary
Council members and staff debated reviving the dormant Recreation Committee. Discussion focused on whether to reconstitute a formal advisory board with bylaws, ethics and open-meeting obligations, or to rely on informal, project-based volunteer working groups to support programming and fundraising.
The West Warwick Town Council on Feb. 14 revisited plans to reactivate a dormant Recreation Committee and heard competing views about whether the group should be a formal advisory board subject to open-meeting and filing requirements, or a looser collection of volunteer working groups focused on specific projects.
Why it matters: council members said the committee could help steward facilities, pursue grants and organize community events, but they also warned that making the committee a formal town board would impose open-meeting, ethics and administrative burdens that can…
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