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Originally Posted by breathe easy
I know it seems far away, but town meeting is only 10 weeks away. I thought this would be a good place to discuss warrant articles and budgets and encourage attendance. Please try to plan your work schedules and plans to allow you to attend. It would be great to break attendance records. Last year only 300 or so people attended. Not even 10% of registered voters.
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Realize that at a town meeting, you are voting in a "true" democratic vote. Now go read our constitution and you will see that nowhere does the public-at-large vote in such a manner. In fact, the founding fathers painstakingly wrote the constitution to prevent mob rule.
At many of the Town meetings I have attended, mob rule is precisely what has happened. I could give a laundry list of examples.
I personally think the small town governments should be abolished and go to county level of government. More economy of scale and remove the major overhead of the additional layer of government employees.
Using a county level of government, you typically (not always) have individuals with formal training in public policy, accounting, etc. Unfortunately in many of these small towns, the boards are made up of business owners with an agenda rather than long-term, forward thinking.