Pat Clifford

Article 1: Choose Town Officers, passed on a near unanimous voice vote. The nominators and newly elected officers are: The moderator then proceeded to the Consent Agenda for the Town Meeting, which included articles 2, 3 and 21-40. Consent Agenda articles are typically recurring and are not expected…

The deliberative mood continued with consideration of Article 4: Appropriations for the Municipal Operating Budget presented by Select Board member Alissa Nicol who moved that the Town appropriate $42,322,565 to be expended by the Town Manager to fund the fiscal year 2027 municipal budget. Speaking to her motion,…

The second night of Town Meeting (Meeting) opened with arguably everyone’s favorite article: The Appropriation of Community Preservation Funds. Select Board Chair Dean Charter moved the article as printed in the warrant and CPC chair Jim Colman marched through his presentation, explaining first how the funding accumulates from…