Letter: Westport Town Meeting will feature important questions

Posted 4/26/19

To the editor:

Westport’s Annual Town Meeting will take place on Tuesday, May 7, at 7 p.m. in the Westport High School auditorium.

If you are registered to vote in Westport, I hope you will …

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Letter: Westport Town Meeting will feature important questions

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To the editor:

Westport’s Annual Town Meeting will take place on Tuesday, May 7, at 7 p.m. in the Westport High School auditorium.

If you are registered to vote in Westport, I hope you will attend and help us make wise decisions about how we will apportion our roughly $45 million operating budget, whether we will make $1.4 million of investment in town property and capital equipment, whether we will purchase the Westport Camping Grounds adjacent to the new middle/high school, how we will spend about $1.2 million in Community Preservation Act funds, if we will adopt a procedure for recalling our elected officers, adopt regulations allowing Craft Marijuana Cooperatives, amend our zoning bylaws relative to solar energy systems and more. 

It may not be as entertaining as what is on television that night (although it’s occasionally even more so), but it is an opportunity to participate in real democracy, to hear the opinions of your neighbors, to share your opinions with them, and to participate in the decisions that determine what kind of town we will live in. 

Those who attend will decide these things.  Those who do something else that evening will live with the decisions of others.  I hope to see you there.

Steven Fors

Moderator, Westport Town Meeting

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