Charter Review Committee - Regular Meeting

Okay, good evening everyone. I'm starting this chapter of the Charter Review Committee. Let's start with the roll call. Don.

Yes.

Nate. Angelina.

Yes.

Skipper. Yes. Bob. Yes. Dan. Mark. There is Hajar. Jeff. There is. Aunty. Jack. There is. Jim. There is. Greg. Angela.

There is.

Then there is Dave and Hajar. So, there are 10 steps. So, we have a quorum. Let's move forward. Pay attention to one thing. Greg also said the same thing. So, as far as they are concerned, I agree with them. Still, we're not getting too close. Okay, let me see. Where did I put my agenda? Okay, it's the first update on the agenda. I think Don has something to say about it. Yes.

As you all saw in the email, I spoke to the State Ethics Committee, my current job as a paraprofessional at Grafton High School. Since it is a small amount to continue as a town moderator, they announced that it would have to be filed as another amount to continue in the Charter Review Committee. I took a harsh decision not to do those activities twice. Therefore, I decided that my position will be held by Ambar Ujjuva Parasya. I received a message from Sayama Abidipathai that I was interested in. I think their name is correct. They have a wide range of PhDs and Masters. They are far ahead of me, so I gave them all the details of today's meeting packet and asked them to participate in Zoom. Then, I sent them the paperwork to prove the truth in front of Ambar. There is another person who expressed interest, but I did not share that information until I confirmed the law. So, one person came and one person left. Okay.

So, things are in a good state. We don't have to worry about the fact that the number of pages is decreasing. So, there is no need to change the mood of the committee to reduce the number of pages. That's the good thing. Okay, so that's all for the last update. The next agenda is public opinion and new recommendations. We got it. Mr. Brian Langevin has received a lot of comments and suggestions. I don't know if he has to discuss it today itself. But in this case, it is up to the authorities to decide. I don't know. I don't think so either. At this time, do you need anything from the committee? We are always ready to accept all the opinions from the public. Since all jobs are now held in sub-committees, each sub-committee will receive this. I have included this in the meeting packet, so that all sub-committees will have access to it and will be able to review what they need. Have you noticed any other opinions or new suggestions from the public? Yes. Go. I forgot to note that the two of us who are participating in the Hager call are the ones who have logged in. I will try to raise them as panelists. Thank you for this promotion, Dave. Yes, I intended to check the list of people who participated in the beginning of the meeting. Because when I run a Zoom meeting, I often log in as one of the panelists. Then there is a group of people who participated in the meeting called Greg. Greg told me that he could not participate in the meeting. That's why I'm going to stop Greg right there. Then Sayama Adabada. Is that your other... Malhum. A new member. Yes. That's why I'm going to raise him as a panelist. That way they can participate. Okay, now we're... I think everyone who wanted to join the meeting is satisfied. I welcome Siam. Am I pronouncing your name correctly, Siam? Yes, what you said is absolutely correct. Thank you. Okay, good. Welcome. I apologize for the interruption in the meeting. You three are Dan, Siam. No problem. Thank you. Then, let's say it as a record. There are so many members present in the meeting. There are 12 members present. Hasn't Siam made a decision so far?

I sent him a letter of order. I don't know if you were able to go and make a promise. Not yet.

If there is no problem, I can go tomorrow. Oh, yes.

Amy, how long will you be here?

I think the 22nd is her last day. Okay. Yes.

Yes. It's better to go tomorrow. But the Municipal Centre closes on Fridays at 1 pm and ends at 30 minutes. Yes. You should remember that. I had to go to the Rec Department at 2 pm to get my snow shoes for rent. Yes. I'm sure that the town clerk will get the whole truth for the next week.

Okay. Good. Okay. We don't have until our next meeting. August 8th. What about October?

Yes, I don't know the reason. I was planning yesterday.

Yes, the first day of October is Thursday. So we will see you early in October. Yes, okay. Good. So? Let's get back to the agenda. That's right. So, we have adopted public opinion and new recommendations. We are always happy to accept new recommendations from the Charter for those who are listening and those who are not. They will be forwarded. Which part of the Charter is the recommendation sent to the relevant departments? Outreach Update

On 21st August, a lot of people came to the table where I and Jack participated in Grafton Night. We had a midi. There were coloring pages. Only 4 of them were left. That's a good thing. Then we had a wonder wheel with 12 questions. The details were also there. The kids liked it very much. When they liked it, it attracted a lot of fans. We gave them the flyers. So we had to distribute a lot of flyers. It went very well. I don't know where to look at the coloring page. Where should I look?

I will find you.

Okay. I designed it myself. It has been written like this. You can use your voice to represent our local language. Charter Review Committee. It has a picture of the charter cover and a small piece of paper. The reason is grafting gaiters. They have a pencil and a notebook in their hands. The kids liked it very much. It was fun. We were there all night. It was very pleasant. I got good feedback. People were paying attention. It felt very good. People came to us and asked us special questions. So, it was a wonderful event. Drones, parking lot, beer garden, Pudu trucks, Vendor Crafts, etc. Even if the weather was not so good, it did not rain. Everything was going very well. Floods were severe. So, We will be there at the October Town Meeting. Yes, you will be there. So, keep these materials with you.

Even if you are no longer a member of the committee, even if you are still a member of the committee, you still have some work to do at the town meeting. Okay, let's know the 27th date. Okay, Skip, your hands are a little short. Do you have anything to say? No, I don't have anything to say. It was a little difficult for me to hear. I have increased the volume completely. When other students speak, I can hear them well. But you speak very slowly. Is there any problem now? There is a little noise. I don't know if it's a microphone or a microphone. Anyway.

Anyway. Okay.

Yes, that means you will have to listen more carefully. Do you listen to the speaker or something else? I don't know. I don't know what happens when you send audio from here. Anyway, okay. Then, anything else about outreach? Yes, I'm happy.

You will get a place in the table where you can put the table dopes and flyers for the town meeting, as well as other boards and committees and their materials. Good. Thank you. Then, finally, we. We will start thinking at any stage.

About the general hearings, about the general meetings, about the outreach to the public. We have already decided that we will conduct at least one or more general hearings after we have approved our proposals. Before we stand on the sidelines of our proposals, it would be good to show the public what we have found, i.e. with more details. They will be able to understand where we are and what we are looking at. It is good to show what we are planning to do as charter agencies and seek the opinions of the public. We can continue that after we have reached the decision. We are ready to accept the opinions from the public. It can sometimes change our decisions. I think it would be good for us to go out to more people when we present our wishes and wishes. Do you want to do anything? Do you want to forgive?

Do you want to do anything special in the form of encouraging the next outreach in town meetings? Join us in this conversation. We would like to know what we have completed so far, what our suggestions are, and what your opinions are.

Yes, we will definitely be able to make a decision about that.

If you want to make a decision about when the program should be held, it would be good to hold a town meeting about it. There will be another meeting of this committee before the town meeting, so we can decide that then.

We can make a decision about a meeting to hold a meeting with the public. Okay, you have about 10 days, so you can give me the materials. Since there is a timetable for all sub-committees and committees to submit their suggestions within the year, we can say in advance that the November meeting can be turned into a general meeting. By then, our suggestions will be almost clear. That's it. What is your opinion before the official voting is conducted? Also, if subcommittees get a clear understanding of your suggestions, I think they will be promoted on the website after passing on to subcommittees. So, let's include the things we've prepared so far and put a list on the website. This seems like a good idea. And, I think we'll get a little more clear understanding of this in the next month's meeting. But yes, we can arrange another festival. December won't be such a good month to hold a festival, but November or January will be fine. Yes. Anyway, let's make sure of that next month. Okay.

Can I ask you a question? I'm asking about Kaudhukam. When a lot of people came that day, did they ask you about the Charter or to know what the Charter is? They... Both. Both. Yes. Yes. It was a pleasant thing.

Some of the people who came were those who asked specific questions. But most of them asked what this is. That's when Wonder Wheel, Wonder Wheel helped a lot, because there were answers to the questions of how many times the Charter should be examined. What is a Charter? I tried to share with you the interesting details about Grafton and the special details about Chowder. After getting the chakram, they were able to understand the interesting things that many people did not know about Grafton. That's why it was very interesting to see some of the children coming back and forth. Good.

The three rescuers came and said, We are trying to start seeing the meetings. Yes, it was a good experience. Okay, if that's all about outreach, let's move on to the next agenda, subcommittee updates. Does anyone in the subcommittees have anything to say to the committee about their progress? In this case, the only thing that the committee expects is a complete report. You just need to know the status of the situation. Do the subcommittees have anything to ask the entire committee? David, if you are interested, you can give me updates on Subcommittee 4, R, anyway. Certainly. I don't have to say it in any special way. Okay, we held the first meeting in Article 4, Subcommittee. We talked about changing the name of the town administrator. We decided to make it happen. I would like to thank this committee for being a part of it and a part of Outreach. We are now doing a better job than we did ten years ago. We are now doing a better job than we did ten years ago. We are now doing a better job than we did ten years ago. So, one of the things we did about the Town Administrator's position was to meet with Town Administrator Ivan Brassard and ask him for his opinion. He was very happy with the change of the name of this place, and he had no problem with it. Then we talked with the Select Board, me and Jack, and Jack gave the details about some other committees. We had seen the select board on Monday night, no, Wednesday night, to know their opinion on the matter. That suggestion. The select board completely rejected the change of the name of Town Manager. So, I think we will have another subcommittee committee to finish things. But I don't think there will be any big debate because this is a simple change. The next step of Article 4 Subcommittee was to hand over the right to appoint the Fire Chief to the Town Administrator or Town Manager. So, we agreed to make that change in the Subcommittee. We again met the Select Board on Wednesday night and talked about the right to appoint the Town Manager to the Fire Chief. The Select Board agreed to that change immediately. Then, yesterday afternoon, I had a great crowd. It was really a good experience. I spent about an hour with the fire chief and discussed that suggestion. At the end of the crowd, he said that he was not against that change going forward. Therefore, it was very difficult to find opinions from the people and people in the places. Therefore, in the case of Article 4 and those two changes, our action will take place very quickly, I say. One thing to commit is to seek opinions from the Town Council on how to change the rule of law, because we have a slight doubt as to how. We should investigate whether it is a constitutional change or a special law. One thing we have made very clear is that we are not changing that place from Strong Cheap to Strong Cheap. It will continue to be a Strong Cheap. Therefore, I will say that the operation of Article 4 subcommittee is going well and has been completed. Before moving on to Article 6, I am ready to answer any questions related to this. Is there any question about this? Okay. That is, Article 6 Subcommittee discussed changes in the budget calendar and changes in the budget process. We held two meetings. As a part of our activities, we have prepared a document. We are handing it over to everyone. I made a mistake. We were supposed to meet yesterday, but I forgot about Monday's meeting. So I couldn't hold our third subcommittee meeting. I wasn't able to get it right. I forgot that Monday was the day of the meeting. So we will have to hold another meeting to investigate the matter in detail. But as part of our outreach, we found time to talk to the select board on Wednesday night. Budget Procurement has some requirements to remove certain rights from the Select Board. They agree that the budget should be more than 1 crore and that everyone should be in the same position at the same time. The school committee is also involved in this. They think that there should be a proper time for the school committee to hand over the budget to the town administrator. So, those discussions are ongoing. Jack and I will have a meeting as a school committee and talk about this in more detail. I will discuss this with Ivan and give him an answer to this. To get more feedback from Ivan, I have to have a meeting with him. Therefore, I will say that we have a lot to do regarding the budget calendar and the budget process, but we are getting good feedback from the parties related to the maximum response. I think that the two committees are working in a good way and we are moving forward. I find it difficult for me to schedule a meeting regarding Article 5 Committee. Since it is the venal period, many people were busy. So, we couldn't hold that meeting. But that's a foreshadowing. Before the next meeting in October, Article 5 subcommittee meeting will be held. This is the update on the situation. I don't think I talked too much and bored you. But I wanted to let you know these details. In this venal period, we were very busy related to those two articles. Okay, thanks for this update and all the activities you have done so far. Are there any updates from other subcommittees? I have updates from Article 2 and Article 3 of the Subcommittee. Regarding Article 2 of the Town Meeting, when Mark and I participated in the last Select Board meeting, I asked about the Select Board proposals. There were no substantial objections to that. Many members of the board agree with this, as well as discuss the actual changes to be made in the Charter. Groton is like this, so there is no real effort to find out how it should be done. We believe that it is good to bring more improvement to the decisions made by some parties that have been chosen and made legal. Our opinion is that it should only be seen as an extravagant act, even in the worst possible scenario, to include such bribes in the warrants. If you are paying attention to all the meetings, you will know where people are going. This will be just a few more details. We discussed the meetings about the Open Town meeting in the subcommittee as soon as we got through the letters. It is very different from what we are doing here when the Charter opens again. We think this is beyond the scope of our Subcommittee. So, it is being postponed for the completion of our instructions. In Article 3, we had a meeting with the Select Board and the Library Board of Trusts, and I informed the Trusts that there were no changes in their charter. Mark and I informed the Select Board. There was no problem with them continuing as it was. We had a meeting with the Planning Board. They received good feedback from Brian Langevin. In selecting the planning board sections, we changed our decision to include the select board and the rest of the planning board sections and implement a comprehensive regulation. Since 2018, there has been no change in the selection of the planning board. All the regulations that were implemented on the planning board were not in line. Therefore, we believe that this is the best way to move forward with the desire to create more changes. Most of the communities around us have adopted this approach. Most of them are doing this through town managers or town administrators, but it seems a little too much to us. We do not want to change from a place where one person is elected directly to a place where a select board is elected. I think that's a surprising thing. The only thing that Article 3 Subcommittee is currently working on is the rules surrounding the Regal Elections. They are very ambitious, and I will even say why they are impossible. We do not intend to hold Regal Elections in Grafton all the time, but there must be a fair approach than to accept more agreements than to submit to the State Representative. So, these are our updates on Article 2 and Article 3. We still have to act as a school committee like Mark suggested. But there is no change in their case. So, it will be a small act for Article 3. That's right. Anyway,

Let me tell you, Article 7 Subcommittee did things correctly this time. We saw yesterday, that was our 2nd Wednesday. We started to investigate our student who was almost 6 years old. So we turned her back to 3rd grade 2. In yesterday's Wednesday, we talked about the difference between calendar days and working days, the publication of the local newspaper, as well as the majority vote, the publication of the quorum, etc. This is the place where we are standing now. During the meeting in April, some things were shared in this. But now we are trying to re-establish the days of action more clearly. You can see this in some changes that have been made to the Charter. This is very similar to what we talked about in the beginning. Everyone in our subcommittee is participating in this. The subcommittee is not very interested in moving it from one local newspaper to another. But we would like to talk about moving it from the local newspaper to the main page of the Grafton Town website. It may be Dan who brought this. So, Dan, if you want, you can definitely comment on this. We can make things a little clearer. I remember that Greg had mentioned this in the Bilo group. About the introduction of the Grafton Town website in the publication of the local newspaper. But we think it's time to bring something new now. So, this is something we are investigating. Also, when we talked about the Bhoorupaksha vote and the Quorum, we decided that the Bhoorupaksha vote is not eligible to vote and that it should be rewritten. So, we are preparing its language. Greg has come forward for that. We are very grateful to him for that. Then, one thing that came up in our meeting yesterday was that we saw that he had been accused in Section 7.5 when we examined some officials. We thought that we should present this in front of a large group regarding their position in the Charter. It seems that the officials are on page 26 of Section 31. First of all, this issue should be clarified. Secondly, instead of using it as a reference at the end of the Charter, the speakers should be asked if this list can be moved forward. This is what we discussed yesterday. In the next meeting, we will begin to review some other suggestions. But let me stop here. Any questions? Anything else?

I think we have received reports from all the sub-media including Article 1. But we don't know if Article 1 has been changed. So, if there is nothing new, Dawn, do you have anything to say about Article 1? We haven't held any meetings about Article 1. Yes, that's why. I will test the subcommittee's and AVEILA's views on the Don's country. If I don't forget, I'll send it to you.

Jeff and I were the only ones there. We haven't had a meeting so far. Yes. But I liked what you said. I think the incorporation of the article 1 of the United Nations into it will easily solve that problem. We will put all the rights, rights, and the United Nations first. Then you won't have to study it again.

Yes.

Then?

Yes, but... In many other institutions, the first article or section or the next to it is seen. So, yes, it's a good idea. I'll give you some tips that will help you with the Mark Fire Cheap Act. It will help you answer the question of how to do it. I don't know if I've mentioned this in the committee meetings, but I have a lot of information about it. I'll try to get it to you. Thank you. Yes. So, if there is nothing else about sub-commedies, I am happy to hear that all sub-commedies are doing well and are behaving as we intended. All sub-commedies' activities will finally reach the front of the committee, and we can make more changes if we need to, but the primary activities must take place here. So, I will say that things are going well. Mark also said that it is the best way for boards and committees to work together. This is a good way to know the opinions of the people who are most affected. As far as I remember, we had done the same thing in Bilo Avalokanam. There we are. First, I think we. I asked all the boards, committees, and officials related to a particular bill, about their initial opinions and suggestions on changes. I think this is a good approach. Dave, I say, Jack and this is up to Pindu. That change was carried out as a planning board. I think there was a lot of discussion about it. Monday, Wednesday night, it became a select board. On Wednesday night, Jack and I spent a lot of time with the select board. We had a very good discussion with the five members. They gave us a lot of feedback. My personal experiences with Evan and Eri were amazing. I learned a lot from those conversations. They were very open-minded. I am very happy that you gave it to me as a gift, because I didn't do it 10 years ago. Now, when I look back, I feel that I should have done it. This makes a big difference. Yes, we can be special. When we do this, everyone who does this can do it better than the last time. Yes, I agree. Okay, we are doing well here. Um, let me take a look. Let's go back to my agenda. Where did I put my agenda? That's Avida. Our last agenda before the yoke ends is to accept the minutes of the third yoke. We have to accept and test the minutes of the yoke on July 9 and August 13. I suggest that you accept two minutes of the discussions. Pindu Naikunnu. Nirdeshiku game Pindu Naikunnu game cheithu. Endengilum charche undo? Aarkengilum minutesil endengilum thiruthan undo? Illengil, enikku votaduppinu avishapadam. Evide anu nyan ende listu vetchadu? Don.

Ade.

Nate. Ade. Angelina.

Nyan votaduppil ninnu vittu nilkunnu.

Skipper. Ade. Bob. Ade. Dan. Yes, Mark. Yes, Jeff. Yes, Jack. Yes, Jim. Yes, Angela.

I am leaving. Then Dave also voted yes.

Ten people agreed and two people left without opposing. Okay, I think we're done for today. I'll give you an idea to break the yoke. I'll give you an idea. I'll give you an idea. Don. Yes. Yes. Nate. Yes. Angelina. Yes. Skipper. Yes. Bob. Yes. Dan. Yes. Mark. Yes. Jeff. Yes. Jack. Yes. Jim. Yes. Angela.

Yes.