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Hubbardston moderator outlines how annual and special town meetings work
Summary
Moderator René Lafayette led a Citizens Academy presentation explaining the purpose of annual and special town meetings in Hubbardston, the roles of the Select Board, finance committee, town clerk and moderator, and procedural details including warrants, checkers and counters.
Moderator René Lafayette gave a plain-language overview of how town meetings work in the Town of Hubbardston during a Citizens Academy session.
“The annual town meeting is just that, here in Hubbardston. It is held in the spring. And that is when the town budget is approved and it usually precedes the town election by about a week,” Lafayette said, summarizing the meeting’s central purpose.
Lafayette told attendees that the warrant functions as the meeting agenda: articles are first approved by the Select Board and then considered by voters at town meeting. He described a 2024 example in which a motion to table an article was initially…
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