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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Charter Review Committee
Date: 2024-01-08 Time: 7:00 PM
Building: Reading Town Hall Location: Berger Room
Address: 16 Lowell Street Session: Open Session
Purpose: General Business Version: Final
Attendees: Members - Present:
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Chair Chris Haley, Vice Chair Phil Pacino, Jesse Arnold, Jonathan Barnes, Bill
Brown (remtote), Geoff Beckwith (remote), Alan Foulds, Chuck Robinson
Members - Not Present:
Andrew Grimes
Others Present:
Town Clerk Laura Gemme, David Zeek, Gregg Phipps
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Caitlin Nocella
Topics of Discussion:
David Zeek gave the board a presentation on election recounts. He is suggesting if the election is close, we
should consider an automatic recount. On the other side, he suggests the petitioner of a recount that is more
than 1% difference in votes, should have to pay for the recount themselves.
The board discussed whether it be more appropriate to make it harder/require more signatures for larger
percentage gaps vs. making them pay. They also discussed the State's regulations on this and maybe they
should just follow those.
Town Clerk Laura Gemme noted she would be against an automatic recount because it would lead to them
happening regularly.
Gregg Phipps, RMLD General Manager, gave the board a presentation on his suggestions for the Charter. His
changes were mostly administrative in nature for Section 3.5.
The board went on to discuss and make small changes to Article 7 and 8. Mostly correcting grammar and
continuing to make the document gender neutral.
Jesse Arnold submitted a few suggestions to 8.11.2 Recall Petition. The board discussed her comments.
Minutes
The board approved the meeting minutes as presented with a unanimous roll call vote.
Future Meetinas
The board discussed moving the meeting on the 22n0 to the 290 to not compete with the Killam Building
Committee meeting. They also discussed having Counsel come to a meeting soon to discuss some of the
questions they had.
The board adjourned at 10:35 PM with a unanimous roll call vole
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