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Finance committee hears petition for town council charter and Boynton Lane road article
Summary
At the Jan. 27 Finance Committee meeting, citizen petitioner Curtis Barnes updated the committee on a petition to establish a town council charter and a separate petition to convert Boynton Lane from a private road to a public way; committee members discussed procedural defects, legal pathways and short-term maintenance options for the road.
Curtis Barnes, a citizen petitioner, presented two citizen warrant articles to the Finance Committee on Jan. 27: one proposing a change to a town council form of government and a second seeking to convert Boynton Lane from a private road to a public way for safety and maintenance reasons.
On the town council proposal, Barnes said the study committee produced a draft charter (about 80 pages) and submitted an outline to the committee but that an initial filing oversight meant the full charter text was not posted with the warrant. Barnes said he did not want to withdraw the petition and preferred that the committee take no action so the petitioners could refile next…
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