Last night's school district meeting
went off without a hitch, lasting all of 23 minutes gavel to gavel.
Tonight's town meeting lasted 2 hours
and 15 minutes, with almost an hour spent on one warrant article
that in the end we hope will go down to defeat.
Our selectmen wanted to change an
combined office, that of Town Clerk/Tax Collector, into two separate
positions, with the tax collector becoming an appointed position.
Unfortunately they didn't check the state statutes before they
crafted the warrant article and found out during town meeting that if
the positions were separated that the Tax Collector would also have
to be elected. Oops.
Best comment about this particular
warrant article: “If it ain't broke, don't fix it!”