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Planning Board pauses alternates appointments after attorney review finds no authority
Summary
Legal review found the Planning Board was created without language authorizing alternates and no later warrant article granted that authority; the board agreed by consensus to remove alternates from the agenda until Town Meeting can authorize alternates (planned as a 2027 warrant article).
Attorney Laura Spector Morgan reviewed the Planning Board's founding documents and determined there is no enabling language authorizing alternate members; the board concluded its prior practice of appointing alternates is not valid without Town Meeting authorization.
Board members agreed by consensus to remove the alternates appointment item from future agendas until the issue can be placed on the warrant at Town Meeting (planned as the first warrant article for 2027). Members were directed to review attorney comments on the draft Rules of Procedure before the next meeting.
