A working group of FPF readers and others is going to meet this SATURDAY at Essex High School 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Room B115 (just past the cafeteria). Please tell others especially those not in this 'FPF Neighborhood.'
Apologies if this comes out in the Saturday FPF and therefore too late for notification.
This group has come together after voicing concerns about the way Essex (Town and Village) budgets have been voted in the past. The more supportive public that are involved in this effort, the better.
Issues to be discussed are:
- how to petition the Village and Town (findings)
- when and what protocol must be followed to do so
- what precisely a petition should propose
- possible outreach efforts to coincide with Village meeting/votes in April
- how a change to poll voting can be done while keeping Town Meetings valuable
- petitions to compliment an Australian ballot that give Town Meetings power, too
Please come with your most civic-minded hats on, and only in support of this effort. The meetings held in response - and polls - after a successful petition are the place for dissent on such a charter change.
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