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Originally Posted by ITD
Go to town meeting
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SB2
Solves all of this crap.
Many cannot sit for hours listening to all sorts of people babbling at the microphones.
SB2. All day voting. Walk in. Vote. Walk out.
Simple.
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For SB2 towns (like mine), there are also the deliberative sessions in February which goes over the town and school warrants. They can be amended during those sessions which means there are two opportunities to deal with town and school spending. (Yes, I know some towns have their town and school district meetings in either April or May, but they are the exception.)
I have to admit that one of my biggest pet peeve are folks - specifically year round residents - who will complain about their property taxes yet they "couldn't be bothered" to attend town/school district meetings if a traditional meeting or the deliberative and/or voting sessions in SB2 towns. When I hear that they neither attended or voted, my sympathy for their plight fades. It may sound heartless, but too often they want someone to fix the problem
after the fact, something they could have headed off if they had bothered to participate. (I point to the town of Croydon as an example and how they cut their school budget somewhere around 50% last March - it may have been more, but memory fails me at the moment - because too many voters in Croydon couldn't be bothered to attend the school district meeting. The hew and cry that went out after that was beautiful to see as I am sure town and school district meeting attendance will be much higher in 2025 because of it.)