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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
In the last ten years, Wolfeboro, Alton and Gilford all have approved the SB-2 style of voting on warrants, as well as for candidates. Laconia is a city and had a tax cap until last week. Don't know about Tuftonboro?
Meredith, Moultonborough, and Center Harbor all continue to have the old fashioned style, show-of-hands, town meeting.
In Meredith, the actual voting on warrants gets done at about 11-pm on the first tuesday in March so only people who are really interested show up to vote. Most potential Meredith voters are no-shows at the town meeting.
Last March at the Meredith-Center Harbor-Sandwich- SAU#3-annual school meeting, the Town of Meredith got "hosed by the Town of Sandwich" according to former Selectman Bob Flanders. Basically, Meredith voters got hoist by its' own petard when Sandwich voters showed up in strength to successfully vote the continued teaching of Sandwich Elementary's 6th grade through the show-of-hands process.
The SAU#3 school board's response; was to change the annual school board meeting from a Wednesday evening to a Saturday morning in a close vote. This had been proposed in the past and failed, so why did it get passed this time? Because Meredith got hosed!
Meredith's scheduling their annual NH town meeting for a time period at 7-pm Tuesday, in March with an aproximate 11-pm show of hands vote, when THEY KNOW that most residents will not show up, is a process that gets results that is very similar to gerrymandering, and it works!
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...didn't you start a thread about this issue already?
By the way, there's always a public input session of any public meeting - you should air your concerns to the board having the town meeting at the odd date/time you've been posting about here - they're more likely to address your concerns at their meeting than they are on this forum...
