Clarifying the record

As I was sifting through my notes from the last three nights of town meeting, I was reminded of the survey about precinct meetings.

Early on Monday, as Town Meeting Moderator David Vieira was going over the announcements and routine business, he mentioned the survey and how he, Town Clerk Mike Palmer, Selectman Carey Murphy and Deborah Siegal of the League of Women Voters worked to get the precincts better organized with more regular meetings. The survey was intended to gather information about how things were working.

Now these are good, civic-minded folks, and I hold Mike Palmer and David Vieira in very high esteem, but aside from getting the first set of officers elected (several years ago now), they haven't been involved in any Precinct 9 meeting other than as a spectator. Indeed, Selectman Murphy has been critical of Precinct Nine's efforts to take our organization to the next level, and I don't think Ms. Siegal has ever been to a Precinct 9 meeting - certainly not in recent memory.


That said; stay tuned as I continue to organize my notes and gather my thoughts. I'll be posting my votes and sharing some thoughts about the three overrides in the coming days.