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Council discusses shifting committee roles to advisors, holds appointments
Summary
Council members said the council will no longer serve as committee chairs but as advisors and noted they were not ready to make appointments because an application was not on the agenda.
Council members discussed restructuring advisory committees so that council members would serve as advisors rather than chairs and said they preferred to keep current committee assignments in place for now.
The clerk read a list of advisory boards — the zoning board, the environmental quality board, the historical preservation board and the Magnolia Cemetery Board — and said the council was "not ready for any appointments" because one application arrived too late to be placed on the agenda. A committee member explicitly asked to leave the committee assignments as they are while the council adjusts the committee role.
The transcript records the policy change as a procedural direction rather than a formal vote or ordinance amendment. No appointment votes or candidate names beyond the late application were recorded in the provided segment.
Next steps appear to be administrative: the town manager (named in the transcript as Chris Digiani) was asked to confirm that a draft memorandum reflected the council’s intended changes; the text of that document and any formal changes to committee bylaws were not included in the supplied record.
