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Committee leaves town-marshal clause in charter for later consideration
Summary
Reviewers noted a clause authorizing a town marshal or police would remain in the charter text; members agreed to keep the provision available should the town opt to exercise that authority in future.
During the line-by-line review the committee paused at a clause that authorizes the town to employ a town marshal or policeman and decided not to remove it from the charter.
"A town marshal?" one member asked when the clause was read; another replied, "We left it in there. We'll talk about that at the first meeting," signaling the committee's intent to preserve the authority in the text but to defer any substantive discussion about staffing or implementation to a later meeting. There was no immediate action to change that clause; staff will carry it forward in the redraft for counsel to review.
