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Brookline Select Board keeps stipend petition intact and approves annual-town-meeting warrant
Summary
At a March 6 special meeting the Select Board decided not to split a petitioned stipend resolution into separate warrant articles, agreed the issue can be divided at town meeting, and voted to execute the amended annual town meeting warrant.
The Brookline Select Board on March 6 voted to execute an amended annual town meeting warrant and agreed not to split a petitioned resolution seeking stipends for the Select Board and the School Committee into separate warrant articles before town meeting.
Why it matters: The decision preserves the signers’ original filing and leaves the procedural option to separate the questions to town meeting members themselves, a step the board and town counsel said is the clearest legal path when a single petition document contains multiple subjects.
Town staff described the warrant filings for May’s town meeting, noting 26 filed warrant articles in the posted draft (the board agreed to amend the…
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