Selectboard Meeting - Correction to Warrant 3-21-23

2023-03-21 · Select Board · 1:31 · watch on YouTube →

A special Select Board meeting called for a single purpose: to correct a typo in Article 9 of the Town Warrant approved at the previous meeting. As originally worded the article asked the town to "appropriate and raise" $60,000 for a fire department rapid response vehicle; the corrected wording asks the town to appropriate and transfer that $60,000 from the fire department's capital reserves fund instead. The chair noted that both the Select Board and the Budget Committee recommend the article, including the transfer. The correction was moved, seconded and approved, and the board adjourned immediately afterwards. The whole meeting runs a little over two minutes.

What was discussed

1. 0:03
   Call to order

   The chair opened the special meeting and recorded that all five members were present.

2. 0:03
   Correction to Article 9 of the Town Warrant

   The board had discovered an error in the article funding a fire department rapid response vehicle. The warrant read "appropriate and raise" $60,000; it should have read that the town appropriate and transfer $60,000 from the fire department capital reserves fund. The chair described it as a typo on the warrant and said both the Select Board and the Budget Committee recommend the article as corrected.

3. 0:03
   Adjournment

   Moved by Josh Klein-Golden and seconded by Joe Tomm immediately after the correction was approved.

What was decided

• 0:03
  Approve the correction to Article 9 on the Town Warrant, changing the $60,000 for the fire department rapid response vehicle from money raised to money transferred from the fire department capital reserves fund. Moved by Josh Klein-Golden, seconded by Todd Beaulieu.passed
• 0:03
  Adjourn. Moved by Josh Klein-Golden, seconded by Joe Tomm.passed

An outcome reads "unclear" where the recording does not state it plainly. The recogniser drops short words, and "the motion does not carry" is one missing word from its opposite.

Motions the minutes record

The town's own written account of what was decided, taken from bosmeetingminutes_032123.txt. It owes nothing to the recording or to a model: the clerk typed it, with the vote. Where the summary above claims a decision this list does not carry, the summary is the part to doubt.

• approve the correction to Article 9 on the Town Warrantcarried 5-0

  Moved by Josh Klein-Golden, seconded by Todd Beaulieu

• adjourncarried 5-0

  Moved by Josh Klein-Golden, seconded by Joe Tomm

Worth knowing

• 0:03
  The correction changes where the $60,000 comes from, not how much is spent. As first written the article would have raised the money; that is, taxed for it. As corrected it moves the money out of a reserve fund the town already holds.
• 0:03
  The error was caught after the warrant had already been approved at a previous meeting, which is why a separate special meeting was needed to fix a single word.

Motion language found in the transcript

Located by pattern matching, with no model involved: "I move that", "I'll second", "all those in favour". This is an independent check on the summary above: 1 passage of motion language, against 2 decisions summarised.

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