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Northborough Select Board debates town meeting reforms: consent agendas, childcare, remote participation
Summary
Following the annual town meeting, Select Board members and residents discussed ways to shorten meetings and broaden participation, including adopting a consent agenda for routine items, offering childcare, rolling short video presentations, and exploring limited remote participation; members favored piloting changes and better pre‑meeting outreach.
After the board returned to open session on May 4, members spent an extended portion of the meeting reviewing this year’s annual town meeting and discussing several proposals aimed at shortening meetings and improving participation.
Concerns centered on length and turnout: members said long presentations and large numbers of individual articles made the meeting hard to get through and deterred broader attendance. "There was so much enthusiasm... but it was too long," one committee member said. Several board…
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