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	Encyclopedia article: Town meeting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Town meeting is a form of local government (The government of a local area) commonly practiced in the U.S. region of New England (A region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut), but uncommon elsewhere in the United States.
		All cities and towns in Vermont (A state in New England), except for South Burlington (additional info and facts about South Burlington), are required by the terms of their charters to hold an annual town meeting, on Town Meeting Day (the first Tuesday in March).
		Because all city and town charters are established by special legislation (additional info and facts about special legislation), there is no general requirement for municipalities to observe Town Meeting or to put their budgets to plebiscite.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/town_meeting.htm (1728 words)

	Town meeting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Between sessions the board of selectmen interprets the policy set at Town Meeting and is assigned numerous duties including: approving all town non-school expenditures, authorizing highway construction and repair, serving as town purchasing agent for non-school items, issuing licenses and overseeing the conduct of all town activities.
		Town meetings are prohibited, by state law, from being held on the biennial election day, which is typically held in November to elect county, state and national officials.
		Representative Town Meetings follow the same procedure and address the same issues as traditional town meetings, except they cannot consider matters which state law or the charter states must be placed on the official ballot of the town.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Town_meeting (2513 words)

	Encyclopedia: Town meeting
		All cities and towns in Vermont, except for South Burlington, are required by the terms of their charters to hold an annual town meeting, on Town Meeting Day (the first Tuesday in March).
		Day-to-day operations of cities and towns are governed by a town council or selectboard, which is fully empowered to act on most issues, but all town budgets (and those of other independent taxing authorities) must be approved by plebiscite; explaining the board's budget request to the voters is the principal business of Town Meeting.
		A New England town meeting, except in Rhode Island, is called by the Board of Selectmen--the town's plural executive--which issues a warrant or warning of the place date and time of the meeting.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Town-meeting (498 words)

	The Town Meeting
		Town meetings are a popular form of local government in Vermont and elsewhere.
		During these meetings, all citizens are welcome to discuss local issues such as the cost of running the schools and government.
		Others think that town meetings are "alive, but troubled." They say that town meetings are mostly attended by those who are self-employed, retired, or otherwise not working at regular daytime jobs, so they cannot accurately reflect the views of the majority of the town's citizens.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/vt/town_1 (183 words)

	New Rules Project - Governance - New England Town Meeting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The New England town meeting and school district meeting are the only direct democracy institutions in the United States involving lawmaking by assembled voters.
		The New England town meeting is a de facto representative body because the majority of eligible voters do not participate in the meeting except in very small towns.
		Non-voters may be allowed to address the Town Meeting with permission of the Moderator unless a majority of voters choose to deny such a privilege.
	www.newrules.org /gov/townmtg.html (1182 words)

	CIS: Citizen's Guide to Town Meetings
		As an event, it is a gathering of a town’s eligible voters, and is referred to as “the Town Meeting.” As an entity, it is the legislative body for towns in Massachusetts, and is referred to simply as “Town Meeting.” So you may say, “I went to the Town Meeting.
		The town counsel is a lawyer who either works for the town as an employee, or is a private lawyer who counts the town among his or her clients.
		Depending on a town’s by-laws, members of the finance committee are appointed by the selectmen or moderator, or elected by voters or the Town Meeting.
	www.sec.state.ma.us /cis/cistwn/twnidx.htm (4195 words)

	andoverma.gov - Town Meeting
		All Town Meetings are usually held on the campus of Andover High School on Shawsheen Road at the Field House or the Collins Center depending on the number of expected voters at a meeting.
		Town Meeting Schedule - The Annual Town Meeting for the election of officers shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in March, each year.
		Town Clerk - Is the chief election official, custodian of the Town's records, and recording secretary of the meeting.
	andoverma.gov /townmeeting (2518 words)

	ipedia.com: Town meeting Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Board of Selectmen will call the town meeting by issuing the warrant, or, the list of things to be determined with descriptions of each item.
		The townspeople instead elect from the ratable polls in their precinct Town Meeting Members to vote on the issues for them, much like a US Representative votes on behalf of his constituents in Congress.
		At this meeting, the town takes care of any housecleaning it has left before the end of the current fiscal year, and prepares itself to enter the new fiscal year.
	www.ipedia.com /town_meeting.html (1197 words)

	Arlington Town Meeting
		Maher recapped the 2001 agreement with the IPs and said it was the Town's position that the IPs are responsible for all remedy expenses in excess of the $7,200,000 agreed upon.
		Nangel, the Town's licensed professional for the work, said that the remedy improvements are covered by a thirty year performance warranty backed by monies set aside for the purpose, while non-remedy improvements were backed by manufacturers'/installers' warranties.
		She said Town Meeting had refused to purchase the statue and that it was bought by a private citizen (who the Moderator told me later was a Mr.
	arlingtontm.blogspot.com (12735 words)

	Town Meeting - Town Manager - Town of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
		The Town Meeting serves as the Town's legislative body under the provisions of Chapter 553 of the Acts of 1953, which is better known as the Representative Town Meeting Act.
		The Town Meeting is responsible for taking all action normally associated with that of a legislative body in the American system of democracy.
		The Representative Town meeting consists of 240 elected town meeting members distributed fairly evenly distributed among the nine (9) precincts based on population.
	www.shrewsbury-ma.gov /manager/meeting.asp (288 words)

	Town Meeting Form
		The major functions of the annual town meeting are: to elect officers, to act on local legislative matters, such as adoption of ordinances, to adopt the town budget and to debate other matters deserving the attention of the town (Dow, 1963, p..
		Conversely, in larger towns there may be difficulties in operating a town meeting when a large group of citizens does attend.
		In addition, there is the question as to whether a town meeting is capable of adequately deliberating town financial matters due to the increasing complexity and magnitude of town budgets (Bonsey, 1967, p.
	www.memun.org /public/publications/TownManPlan/TM_form.htm (697 words)

	Town of Brookline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Town meeting is responsible for passing a balanced annual town budget, and enacts all town bylaws.
		An Annual Town Meeting is held in the spring to enact the following year's budget, plus whatever other matters are placed on the Town Meeting Warrant, eithcr by the Seletmen or by citizen petition.
		Although only elected town meeting members may vote and propose motions, the public is invited to attend and the sessions are carried live on Brookline Access Television.
	www.mybrookline.com (452 words)

	new england town meetings and other meeting related information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Town meetings in New England A derivative of meetings held by church elders, town meetings were an integral part of governance and remain so today in towns across New England.
		New England's town meetings are a specific example of these meetings, but lessons drawn from them are widely applicable.
		Often defined by the familiar images of taciturn Yankees, town meetings, maple syrup, and rocky seacoasts, New England is both a distinctively American place and a distinctive place within America...
	www.nethorde.com /meeting/new-england-town-meetings.html (312 words)

	Town Meeting
		Once the Town Council had made known its request that she moderate the town meeting, she became a public figure wherever she went -- at church, in the grocery store, even at her son's basketball games.
		It was immoral, he said, for a town to consider such expansion when there were large portions of the state -- especially in nearby Fresno -- that could be re-developed as livable space for workers and families.
		The Town Council later ratified her request to the developer and another town meeting was tentatively scheduled for Februrary 20th -- pending the ability of the developer to present a new set of plans.
	www.christianleaders.org /narrative/tmt_town_mtg.htm (1527 words)

	Town Meeting Procedure
		In every town, city, village, fire district, or other local unit of governance, there are jobs that have to be filled by somebody; members of the zoning board, planning commission, select board, listers, auditors, justices of the peace, clerk, treasurer, constable, among others.
		Serving the town in one office or another is often a family tradition, a means of paying your citizenship dues.
		Good town clerks are the glue that holds the town together, regularly mediating between warring factions and helping everyone, officer and citizen alike, find their way through the maze of local government.
	crs.uvm.edu /citizens/TURN.htm (2382 words)

	ongoing · New England Town Meeting
		On the 16th of this month, the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council hosted a meeting at which Eric Kriss, the state’s Secretary for Administration and Finance, and Peter Quinn, the CIO, discussed the state’s recent proposal to standardize on the Open Document Format.
		SUMMARY: This meeting, which about 45 people attended, was for discussion of a recent draft proposal by the state of MA about selection of information standards, especially data formats.
		Technology Leadership Council (the meeting convenor) to gather information on which to base a recommendation to be sent to the state.
	www.tbray.org /ongoing/When/200x/2005/09/20/Fifty-Million-for-Office (1049 words)

	The Town Meeting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The issue was raised during Monday's village council meeting, as part of a report from council member Myrna Howse, who also sits on the citizens' compactor and recycling committee.
		Howse said a key topic discussed at the committee's recent meeting involved a reluctance by several townships to accept a shared proposal from the village.
		According to Howse, over the six total days surveyed (on regular drop off days of Wednesdays and Saturdays), the average percentage of usage by village and various township residents was Village of Elk Rapids (46.64 percent), Milton Township (24.44 percent), Elk Rapids Township (18.83 percent) and Torch Lake Township (7.62 percent).
	www.upnorthpub.com /tm.htm (1952 words)

	Town of Framingham Home Page
		A Town Manager/Board of Selectmen executive branch governs the town, with a representative Town Meeting serving as the legislative branch.
		At nearly 67,000 inhabitants we are the largest Town in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
		The START Framingham Partnership and the Town of Framingham are proud to announce the official launch this week of the Framingham Cultural Directory.
	www.framinghamma.org (408 words)

	Annual Town Meeting 2005
		Town Mayor, Cllr Peter Hill said a near-record amount of £6,815 had been raised and that he was grateful for the help and support of the Mayor's Charity Fund Organising Committee and everybody who had attended or contributed to a wide variety of successful events during the year.
		Amongst those thanked during the evening for their contribution to life in Wivenhoe was Paul Alden to whom Peter Hill presented two bottles of port for technical support provided by Paul for the Wivenhoe Encyclopedia (for Paul's entry in the Business section, click here).
		The Town Council are grateful to the University of Essex for their previous help and support in providing hosting services.
	www.wivenhoe.gov.uk /WTC/2005/town_meeting05.htm (377 words)

	NINCH: Copyright Town Meeting - Eugene 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Policy issues could include: ownership of material created by faculty and graduate students in their research and teaching (including patent and trademark); the use of the copyrighted work of others; the securing of rights and permissions for faculty; asset management; institutional trademarking; technology transfer and new forms of scholarly publishing.
		In this meeting, the material and exercises would focus on the ownership and use of faculty-created courseware.
		She was optimistic about the policy that would emerge from the work initiated at the town meeting and workshop.
	www.ninch.org /copyright/2001/eugenereport.html (5601 words)

	Lexington TMMA
		Town Meeting Members, Lexington's Voters, and the general public with an interest in our town's government.
		If you are interested in learning more about Town Meeting in Lexington, how it works, and what it does start here.
		Contact information for Town Meeting Members or other people in our Town Government.
	www.lexingtontmma.org (179 words)

	NINCH: Copyright Town Meeting - Chicago 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Rather than investigate an issue from multiple viewpoints, as many town meetings have done, this town meeting would investigate in some depth the products and distribution mechanisms established by several agents in providing access to copyrighted cultural heritage materials, specifically for educational and scholarly use.
		Thus, in addition to imparting basic knowledge about copyright law and suggesting practical short-term solutions, organizers and participants of Town Meetings also strive to be a part of the long-range exploration of solutions to the digital dilemma.
		Essentially, the meetings have been about devising strategies and combining resources to help us create the immense digital exploratorium at the heart of our mission.
	www.ninch.org /copyright/2001/chicagoreport.html (3861 words)

	NYNCH/CAA Copyright Town Meeting, New York City 2003
		This NINCH Copyright Town Meeting brings together authors, publishers, museum administrators, legal counsel, and culture and media historians to discuss their experiences and provide their advice for moving forward.
		As with all NINCH Copyright Town Meetings, the audience is encouraged to participate and ample time is reserved for that purpose.
		Christine Sundt's Copyright Resource Page A highly useful and current summary of IP meetings, symposia, papers, guidelines and advocacy documents about the visual arts and copyright.
	www.studiolo.org /IP/2003NYTM/index.htm (1370 words)

	Town of Falmouth - Meeting Warrants and Schedule
		Town of Falmouth » Departments » Town Clerk » Meeting Warrants and Schedule
		Vote of Annual Town Meeting November 14 & 15, 2005
		Vote of Annual Town Meeting April 7, 2003
	www.town.falmouth.ma.us /deppage.php?number=39 (104 words)

	National Town Meeting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The National Town Meeting was held to engage all Americans in charting a course for prosperity in the years ahead.
		Concepts like "sustainability" and "smart growth" are about improving quality of life for all, both in present and future generations.
		The session was webcast and will be available for archived viewing after the meeting.
	www.sustainableusa.org /ntm (272 words)

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