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CRC group reviews Article I redline, toggles town logo vs. seal and renames audit committee
Summary
Group 1 reviewed a redline of Article I, added local and electronic publication language, discussed whether the town logo should receive statutory seal protections and agreed to rename the audit committee to 'audit board'; they also added charter language to let the Town Council decommission obsolete boards.
Members of the Charter Revision Commission (Group 1) reviewed a redline of Article I (General Provisions) on Jan. 28 and made several substantive changes and clarifications intended to modernize notice provisions and to clarify institutional authorities.
Joe Paulo presented a redlined draft of Article I and pointed out two substantive edits: adding a requirement that publication be in a local newspaper (to ensure local notice) and explicitly allowing electronic publication "as amended from time to time." "The idea of the local newspaper was that the text needs to be in a publication with substantial circulation," Paulo said,…
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