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Select Board declines to recommend on petitioned Special Town Meeting warrant
Summary
The Select Board voted to post the petitioned special town meeting warrant with no recommendations, saying voters should decide petitioned items independently.
Chair Rob Wright read the petitioned warrant for a Special Town Meeting to the Select Board on July 13. Selectman John Tuttle argued the board should avoid issuing recommendations on petitioned articles so voters can decide independently; he cited legal precedent that the board is only statutorily required to opine on budgetary or bargaining items but may choose to comment on others.
The board agreed and passed a motion to make no recommendations on the warrant articles and to post and attest to the warrant once the no-recommendation language is added. The motion to post the petitioned warrant with four articles passed unanimously. Selectman Tuttle explicitly said he did not want to insert his personal opinion on petitioned items.
