1988-02-17 Bylaw Committee Minutes

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Bylaw Committee Minutes #122 Cz,lembers February 17, 1988 present: Ed Murphy, Nils Nordberg, Dolores Carroll and Phil Pacino 7:40 Meeting called to order in Room 16 of the Town Hall Minutes of meeting # 119 approved by a vote of 4 -0 Minutes of meeting #121 approved by a vote of 4 -0 The committee reviewed the Per 4hnel bylaw change approved own Meeting and published in the local newspaper as being certified by the State Attorney General. It was noted that the bylaw change approved by Town Meeting was not the same as what was published. The chairman stated he would look into the situation. The committee then reviewed the specific items that had been basicly agreed to at the last meeting in regard to recodifing the bylaws. The items mentio ned were a Preamble to the Bylaws, a Table of Contents for the Bylaws, use of a possil,le decimal system in numbering the Bylaws, reordering the articles of the Bylaws and cor)6ction of grammar errors. The committee then reviewed the work done by the chairman in rewriting Article I of the Bylaws. The committee made several changes to the Article. The changes were: " J 1.1.1 Added the word in the 2nd line 1.1.2 Eliminated the word Flaw' and changes the word statue to"iaws� in the 2nd line. At the end changed:" ...or of any special stature of r Massachusetts." to "or special laws of Massachusetts or the Reading Home Rule Charter" 1.1.4 Eliminated a comma and an "or" in the lst sentence. Changed "the foregoing" to these in the 2nd sentence. The committee was unsure on how grammar changes should handled for Town Meeting and Voter approval in the Charter. It was agreed to refer the question to Ted Cohen. The committee discussed whether it should be "By-law" or "Bylaw ". It was agreed to defer the decision on this matter to a future date. 9 :40 Committee adjVrned to meet on Wednesday, March 2, 1988 at 7:30 Respectfully submitted, Philip B. Pacino Clerk L