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What Medfield Residents Should Know About Town Meeting

Friday, April 27, 2012

A Resident's Guide to Medfield's 361st Town Meeting

Here’s your guide to everything you need to know about the upcoming Medfield Annual Town Meeting on Monday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the Medfield High School gymnasium.

Last April, only 484 residents attended Medfield's 360th Annual Town Meeting despite two important warrant articles that sparked debate on the floor and called for a Special Town Election following approval at Town Meeting. As many of you may recall, the controversial warrant articles from a year ago that ultimately passed Town Meeting were for a new town garage and an operational budget override of $500,000. In May, the operational budget override passed Special Town Election but the town garage failed to meet the approval of the majority of the 1,755 residents who came out to vote. This year’s Annual Town Meeting is expected to be much less controversial, with just 28 articles on the Warrant Report and many of the town's budgets …

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