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Originally Posted by Argie's Wife
.. you should air your concerns to the board having the town meeting at the odd date/time you've been posting about here  |
Look, there's no way I can explain personally the reason why each voter voted the way that they did in Gilford and Meredith when it came to voting yes or no for a new police station but I can look at the overall results which are what counts.
History:
In the last four years, Gilford, which is an SB-2 town, has voted NO, three different times to replace their old police station with a new one.
Meredith, which is a town meeting town, voted YES on the first vote, about eight years ago, to replace their old police station with a new one.
What made the difference between Gilford and Meredith? Just my opinion here, but I believe it was most likely all about the difference in the voting process: Gilford's SB-2 private paper ballot available to voters from 7am-7pm as opposed to Meredith's traditional NH tuesday night, town meeting and its' 11-pm show-of-hands style vote.
What made the difference between Gilford not building a new police station, and Meredith building its' taj mahal style police station was the voting process difference between SB-2 and town meeting. ...
