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Absentee ballots available for March 1 town elections BRATTLEBORO — Absentee ballots for the Brattleboro Annual Town Meeting and Windham Southeast School District vote to be held March 1 are available. Due to the pandemic, voters are encouraged to make use of absentee ballots for these two elections. .
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BRATTLEBORO â The town of Brattleboro is looking for citizens to serve on the following committees and boards:
Agricultural Advisory Board; Agricultural Advisory Board Ex-Officio Members; ADA Advisory Board; Arts Committee; Brattleboro Housing Partnerships Board of Commissioners; Cemetery Committee; Citizen Police Communications Committee; Conservation Commission; Design Review Committee; Design Review Committee Alternate; Development Review Board; Development Review Board Alternate; Energy Committee; Fence Viewers (by statute, must be legal voters of the town); Hazard Mitigation Committee; Honor Roll; Inspector, Lumber, Shingles & Wood; Planning Commission; Recreation & Parks Board; Rescue, Inc., Trustee; Senior Solutions Advisory Council; Traffic Safety Committee (1 citizen representative and 1 school representative); Tree Advisory Committee; Weigher of Coal.
Revitalizing local democracy through charter reform
By William C. Shelton
Last Thursday the Charter Review Committee conducted its first meeting. Its purpose is to design a new governing document – a new government, really – that will enable the City to be responsive to residents and to effectively meet the challenges of this historical moment.
Such an effort is overdue by over a century. Our current charter dates to 1899. It mandates two Fence Viewers, a Wood and Bark Measurer, and a Grain Weigher. It also invests overwhelming authority to govern in the mayor.
Just twelve years after the current charter’s adoption the city’s leaders recognized their error. The Board of Aldermen approved a new charter that specified a commission form of government, a forerunner of today’s council/manager form. The Mayor signed it, but it languished and then died in the Legislature in 1914.