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Citizen petition to create procurement committee fails after being moved up on the agenda
Summary
Article 19, a citizen petition to direct the selectmen to appoint a three-person Procurement Committee to review expenditures over $25,000, was moved forward by a resident, debated and failed; the Board of Selectmen did not recommend the petition.
Article 19, submitted by petition and not recommended by the Board of Selectmen, proposed directing the selectmen to appoint a three-person Procurement Committee to independently review estimates, costs, proposed contracts and financial impacts for expenditures exceeding $25,000. The petition specified committee composition, three‑year terms, and a reporting requirement to the selectmen before commitments to expend funds.
Resident Rebecca Courser moved to bring Article 19 forward on the agenda; the motion passed by voice vote. The petition was then presented and the transcript records that Article 19 failed. The warrant text notes the Board of Selectmen did not recommend the article. The transcript records the petition text and procedural motions but does not record a detailed floor vote tally in the excerpt.
