1988-09-14 Bylaw Committee Minutes

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By-Law Committee Minutes X6134 September 14, 1988 Members present! George Theophanis, Nils Nordberg, Dolores Carroll and Phil Pacino. 7:39 Chairman pro-tem George Theophanis called the meeting to order in the Employees Lounge of Town Hall. The 1st order of business was a review of the proposed bylaw on the removal of Town Meeting members. After discussion and several changes in the wording of the proposed bylaw, the committee on a motion of Nils Nordberg and seconded by Phil Pacino voted to submit the proposed bylaw for inclusion in the Fall Town Meeting warrant by a vote of 4-0. It was reported that the proposed bylaw on rules and regulations of Town committees had not been received back from Town Counsel with his recommendations on such. The committee then took up the requested changes in the bylaws set forth by the TowQ.Manager in his January 20, 1988 letter and by him at the August 24, 1988 meeting of the committee. After discussion the committee took the following actions: 1. On a motion of Nils Nordberg and second by Dolores Carroll the committee voted 4-0 not to change the dates for the opening of Town Meeting. 2. On a motion of Nils.Nordberg and seconded by Phil Pacino the committee voted 4-0 to not orginate bylaw changes on the issues of licenses, fees or the closing of the warrant. The committee then turned to the recodification of the bylaws.The committee dealt with Article IIas follows: Rue1 4 became Rule 5, Rule 5 became Rule 6, Rule 6 became Rule 7, Rule 7. became Rule 10, Rule 8 became Rule 12, Rule 9 became Rule 13, Rule 10 became Rule 14, Rule 11 became Rule 15, Rule 12 became Rule 16, Rule 13 became Rule 17, Rule 14 became Rule 18 &Rule 15 became Rule 19. Rule 16 added the wording "authorized by Town Meeting" after the word "committee", added the letter "0" to the word appointed and included the entire as part of section 2.2.2 Rule 17 was made a part of Section 2.2.3 Rule 4 was added reading "Prior to debate on each article in a warrant involving changes in the bylaws the By-law Committee shall advise the Town Meeting as to its recommendations and reasons therefor." Rule 3 at the beginning was added"Prior to debate". The wordsSection 5 was dropped. Section 6 thru the wording " an opportunity to do so." was changed to become Rule 8. The remainder of that section became Rule 9. Section 7 became Rule 11. Section 1 became 2.2.1, Section 2 became 2.2.2. Section 3 became 2.2.3, Section 4 became 2.2.4 , Section 8 became 2.2.5, Section 9 became 2.2.6 and 2.2.7 was kadded for future use In new Rule 8 "without leave of the Town Meeting" was changed to "without first obtaining the permission of the Meeting".