Charter Review Committee Agenda1
August 17, 2016, Beginning at 7 PM , Town Hall, First floor Meeting Room
Votes may be taken at any time during the meeting.
Admin
? Review Minutes of August 10, 2016
? Tally
Remaining To Present ................................. 0
Remaining To Complete .............................. 9
Completed ............................................... 207
Total ........................................................ 216
? Completed:
Accepted .................................................... 58
Referred ..................................................... 14
Previously addressed or dismissed .......... 135
Presentations
Reconsideration
? Ask if any member wishes to request reconsideration of a completed submission.
Reconsiderations to be Discussed
Reconsideration of a Motion Ending in a 3-3 Tie
1. 20160803: Mr. McCoy moved to add a new Subsection 5 to Charter Section 3-2(b) as follows (and as amended), “sign all payroll and expense warrants; provided, however, that the Board of selectmen at its sole discretion may delegate this authority to the Town Manager or acting Town Manager for a period not to exceed 30 days by a vote of the Board at a posted meeting.”
2. Note: A second motion on 20160803 to require a majority of Selectmen to sign the expense and payroll warrants which ended in a tie was re-moved and passed by a vote of 5-1.
Definition and Usage of Term Officers
? Discuss results of full Committee action item review of definitions and usages of new terms for Officers
Submission Discussions
Sub #
Page
Submitted By
Summary
1
#42
25
Michael Manugian
[BC] Personnel policy negotiation team
20160330 to Collins for wording
2
#93
44
John Giger
[BC] Decide which elected officers to list in Charter
20160503 Mr. Collins will write a preamble to Charter Article 3 and may rearrange a few other things in the Article to clarify why some elected offices are mentioned and others are not.
3
#82
41
John Giger
[JA] define officer
1 The listing of topics that the Chair reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the meeting is not intended as a guarantee of topics that will be discussed. Not all topics listed may, if fact, be discussed, and other topics, not listed, may be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law.
Charter Review Agenda for Aug 17, 2016 – page 2 of 2
Sub #
Page
Submitted By
Summary
4
#96
76
John Giger
[JA] offices supervised by TM 4-2 (a)
20160203 Submissions # 96 and 97 (page 76 in the Charter Section Summary), from John Giger, were postponed, by consensus, to a time when all definitions in Section 1-9 could would be discussed.
20160622 referred to Ms. Allen to document occurrences of ‘officer’ in Charter
5
#100
79
John Giger
[JA] definition of offices - 4-2(j)
20160203 This submission was deferred by consensus to a time when definitions, in Charter Section 1-9, would be addressed.
20160622 deferred until results of Ms. Allen’s research for #96 available
6
#183
Mark Haddad
Town Manager sign expense and payroll warrants
Reconsider motion resulting in a tie vote if all Committee members present
7
#184
Michael McCoy
Appointment of department heads
20160810 referred to Mr. Schulman for wording
8
#187
Michael McCoy
Combing sections referring to Town Moderator
20160810 Mr. McCoy to suggest wording to include 3-4 (d) except first sentence into section 2-2
Charter Change Audit
? Begin detailed audit of all proposed Charter changes.
Charter Review Schedule
? Recommend schedule changes (if any)
Closing
? Confirm next meeting: Aug 24, 2016
Open Items for Future Meetings
1. For final presentation create overview of reasons we proposed changes to the charter (meeting of 20160608).
2. Towards the very end of the process, delete (or replace) Article 8 Transition #174
3. Review draft of proposed charter with all changes

The listing of topics that the Chair reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the meeting is not intended as a guarantee of the topics that will have been discussed. Not all topics listed may in fact be discussed, and other topics not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law.