1988-05-25 Bylaw Committee Minutes

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BY -LAW COMMITTEE MINUTES #128 May 25, 1988 Mers present: Ed Murphy, George Theophanis, Nils Nordberg, Phil Pacino and Dolores Carroll. 7:35 Chairman Ed Murphy called the meeting to order in Room 16 of Town Hall. Minutes of meeting No. 127 were reviewed and amended as follows: In the last sentence of the next to last paragraph of the first page, the word "by -law" should be "regulation." The second last paragraph of page 2 should have included the words, "voted to recommend by a vote of 3 -1." Minutes accepted as corrected by a vote of 3 -0. Nils Nordberg presented committee members with a copy of a letter he had sent to the Moderator, Paul Dustin, regarding our By -laws as they pertain to "Conduct of Town Meeting." Upon recommendation of Ed Murphy, we commenced discussion of the By -law codification with the following comments: - Keep a record of issues we want to bring up such as Article 1 which governs Town Meeting. - George Theophanis feels Town Meeting gives away too much power with boards, general procedures of regulations and the local operation of government in general. - Issues - procedures for adopting and promulgating regulations. - Nils Nordberg believes the Moderator should have certain freedom to maintain order and make rulings, which Town Meeting can accept or reject. Needs further discussion. - Discussion on augmenting the Charter provision on removal of Town Meeting Members with a set of rules. Agreed to make recommendations to Town Meeting. Can be builgY into By -law to implement that provision. - Ed Murphy read and the committee reviewed previous changes made in Article 1. - "Amendment" - no changes. Agreed to accept as is. "Repeal" - Agreed to use first sentence of Andover's By -law language, but deleate the word "heretofore adopted." Use the second sentence of our By-Iiw; change the word "the" to 4W "these" and remove word "foregoing."