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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING <br />Reading Memorial High School April 25, 2011 <br />Town Clerk, Laura Gemme and Moderator, Alan Foulds swore in elected Town Meeting members before <br />their precinct meetings. <br />Precinct 2 - Appointed two members to fill current vacancies - -- Paul McNeice and William Ryan were <br />appointed with a 17 -0 vote with one vacancy remaining. <br />Precinct 6 - Voted on a tie- breaker from the April 5, 2011 Local Election - -- Christopher R Campbell was <br />elected as a Town Meeting Member. <br />The meeting was called to order by the Moderator, Alan E. Foulds, at 7:45 PM, there being a quorum <br />present. The meeting was started with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. All newly elected and <br />appointed Town Meeting Members were sworn in by the Moderator. <br />The Warrant was partially read by the Town Clerk, Laura Gemme, when on motion by James Bonazoli, <br />chair of the Board of Selectmen, it was voted to dispense with further reading of the Warrant except for <br />the Officer's Return, which was read by the Town Clerk. <br />ARTICLE 2 <br />State of the Town given by James Bonazoli, Board of Selectmen - given as a video - text as listed below <br />Welcome and congratulations to our newest Town Meeting members. For those of you who are new <br />every Annual Town Meeting in April the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen is to present the State of the <br />Town. <br />It is my honor to serve as the Chair and tonight I have the opportunity to say a few words on behalf of the <br />Board of Selectmen. <br />For my six years on the Board I have promoted the use of technology and that the Town needed to keep <br />up with how residents and other communicate. With reverse 911 — Ed -line and the town web site Town <br />staff has done an incredible job meeting my challenge. Heck even Peter is more technically advanced <br />now as he can't be seen anywhere without his iPhone. <br />So I figured it was time to put my money (or pride) where my mouth is and hope that technology doesn't <br />fail me tonight as I would like to present the State of the Town in the form of a video. <br />As it is about 14 minutes long I invite Mr. Moderator, Town Clerk and others to move to the chairs in the <br />front row...... <br />While they do that ... just so you don't think I was overly confident in my re- election and started this <br />before then I didn't and so put the RCTV staff through hell this week. Dawn DiChico and Phil Rushworth <br />of RCTV spent 13 hours on Saturday putting this together with me and as the Board can attest, 4 hours <br />with me is tough let alone 13 - So I want to send a big thank you to Dawn and Phil. <br />Now if we can turn down the lights I give you the Annual Town Report... <br />Aristotle once wrote "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." As <br />Chairman, I am here to present the Annual Town Report on behalf of the Board of Selectmen and to <br />outline how despite the enormous fiscal and day to day challenges, we have continued to achieve <br />excellence this past year. <br />2011 Annual Town Meeting <br />