CHARTER

· Charter – Change Proposed, Pending or Approved

· By-Laws – Change Proposed, Pending or Approved

CHARTER Items Reviewed by the Committee - Change Proposed, Pending or Approved
Page #	Article	Section	Description
2-1	2	2-3	In third paragraph, is posting being done as written? Are precinct maps available? Are names and addresses of voters posted? If so, is Town Clerk or BoS responsible for posting? View change
2-1	2	2-4(b)	Conform time requirements with MGL View change
2-2	2	2-5	Do we want to resolve ties by lottery instead of by vote in caucus? View change
2-2	2	2-6(c)	Do not consider persons for appointment before the date of the last revision of precincts. View change
3-1	3	3-1(d)	Should preliminary town elections be eliminated? View change
3-1	3	3-1(d)(4)	Conform time requirements with MGL View change
3-5	3	3-1(h)	Remove six-month restriction on recall after an election. View change
3-5	3	3-2(a)	Reword paragraph View change
3-6	3	3-6(b)	Review powers and duties View change
3-7	3	3-9(b)	What about resignations? View change
3-8	3	3-12	Commission is called Recreation and Parks, Human Services is separate department. View change
3-8	3	3-12	Would like Recreation/Parks Commission to have jurisdiction over Parks, specifically overall maintenance. Currently BoS are the Parks Commissioners. View change
4-1	4	4-1	Rewrite because of recent by-law changes View change
4-1	4	4-1(b)	This should be a by-law that details the process for selecting a new Town Administrator (TA). It should take into account that there is a TA currently in office and that it may be appropriate to select a new TA prior to the departure of the current TA. [Refer to By-Laws, Art. 20, s. 4]
4-1	4	4-1(c)	The qualifications for TA should be in a by-law. Is the requirement that a candidate have five years of service as a chief administrative officer overly exclusionary? [Refer to By-Laws, Art. 20, s.3]
4-2	4	4-2 (3)	List of appointments is in the by-laws. The list in the charter is obsolete. View change
4-4	4	4-3(c)	Should there be any changes made in the ability of an acting TA to fill vacancies? View change
4-4	4	4-3(c)	Permanent appointments cannot be made? What are implications for Town employees? View change
4-4	4	4-3(c)	What does "designations of a permanent nature" mean? View change
5-1	5	5-2(a)	Is the wording clear? View change
5-1	5	5-2(b)	Are the publication requirements being followed? View change
5-1	5	5-3	Are the publication requirements being followed? View change
5-2	5	5-6(a)	Does the public hearing precede or follow the review? View change
5-2	5	5-6(c)	Last sentence should read "The proposed budget presented to town meeting for action shall be the budget recommended by the finance committee" View change
5-2	5	5-7	Is the date for submission of capital improvement program being followed? View change
6-3	6	6-4(b)	No person other than treasurer pays bills [Treasurer (1)]. Misleading statement. View change
7-1	7	7-6(b)	Allow Town Meeting to extend time for review View change
7-4	7	7-12	This section is superceded by By-Law, Article 44 View change

BY-LAWS Items Reviewed by the Committee - Change Proposed, Pending or Approved
Page #	Article	Section	Description
1-1	1	1	Start Fall Town Meeting two weeks later. View change
1-1	1	4	Reference Section 2-11c in Charter. Reconcile language. Also reconcile with MGL. View change
10-2	10	2	Check list of appointments made by Board of Selectmen View change
10-2	10	2, table	Should School Committee appoint Keefe Tech representative? View change
11-2	11	8 [new]	Is there a need for a section similar to Section 8 to address verification of removal of residence of other elected officials? What does MGL say? View change
11-2	11	9	Is there a news release for new appointments? View change
11-2	11	12 [New]	Town Clerk should publish a municipal calendar of dates for elections and Town Meetings, including associated filing dates View change
12-1	12		The entire article should be reviewed to verify that it is in keeping with current practice View change
20-1	20	1	Check list of appointments made by Town Administrator View change
20-1	20	2	Specify dates for submission of capital improvement program View change
20-1	20	3 [new]	Need section on steps for qualifications on Town Administrator View change
20-1	20	4 [new]	Need section on steps for appointing new Town Administrator View change
20-3	20	5 [New]	Town Administrator should include in Annual Town Report a top-level organization chart. View change
21-1	21		Is there a Planning Director and is one required under MGL? View change
22-1	22	4	Is there a vacancy each year? Should this be reworded? View change
22-1	22	5c	Some names may no longer be valid. Delete Public Works Commission. Recreation Commission is Recreation and Human Services Commission. Superintendent of Recreation name is changed. View change
22-2	22	6	Wording unclear. Should the comma after "Town Meeting" be "and" or "or"? How does this section agree with Article 10, Section 3? View change
22-2	22	8	How does prohibition about hiring other counsel square with Article 44 when there is a conflict between Town Agencies? What about School Committee? View change
23-1	23	1	Does Industrial Council exist? View change
23-1	23	1	Are there some committees or offices in the Town that a member of the Finance Committee should not hold? View change
23-1	23	4	Does Finance Committee distribute report with recommendations 10 days before Town Meeting? Does this report include an approximate tax rate? View change
23-1	23	6	This section does not seem to be up to date because it makes no mention of the Town Administrator in the budget process. View change
24-1	24	1.2	Does this odd, even, odd sequence make sense? View change
24-1	24	1.3	Is the screening committee to select the new Town Administrator simply "an advisory committee dealing with personnel-related matters"? View change
24-1	24	2.1c	The reference is poor. It should be something like: Section 4-2, Items 4 and 14.
24-1	24	2.2	Isn't it "Deputy Town Administrator" not "Assistant Town Administrator"?
24-2	24	3.6	Ask whether Personnel Director maintains current job descriptions
24-3	24	4.2	Is the Fair Labor Standards Act still the applicable law? What does "these employees" refer to -- just permanent or also temporary?
24-3	24	4.3	What is the maximum probationary period? Is a year legal?
24-3	24	5.3	Is full-time of 37 1/2 hours consistent with state or federal law?
24-3	24	5.4	Is this legal also?
24-6	24	7.3.4	Who appoints the Sick Leave Bank Committee? What is composition?
24-7	24	7.4	Address the issue of compensating town employees who are reservists called to active duty for the difference between their regular pay and their military pay.
24-7	24	7.5	Any change in bereavement leave in union contracts?
24-8	24	7.8	Is maternity leave still in accordance with law?
24-10	24	12	Don't use the word "Town" when a specific function is meant. This appears in other places as well.
24-10	24	13.2	Repeal 13.2 because no longer applicable.
24-11,12	24	Table	Simplify these tables by listing grad and position in two columns. Then include the pay table, listing only one line for each grade. What does "performance range" mean?
30-1ff	30	Throughout	Standardize the way of referring to the MGL. View change
30-1	30	2	Move Section 2 to its own by-law in the 70 series. Drop the "2." in front of the section and subsection labels. Substitute "this by-law" for "Section 2" where it appears in the text. Substitute "Section X" for "Section "2.x" where it appears in the text. View change
30-3	30	2.4.1	Are emergency rules making sense? What about 1-day response actions? View change
30-4ff	30	2.5	The term "Resource Area Values" appears to be a technical term that is not defined. What is it supposed to mean? View change
30-4	30	2.5.1	What is an "RDS"? View change
30-7	30	2.9	Last two sentences are repetitive. View change
31-1	31	1	Delete article; reference is to deleted section in Charter View change
40-1	40	1	Publication of Town Report, referred by Town Meeting View change
40-1	40	4, 5	Are the provisions for publishing the valuation and tax abatement lists being followed? View change
41-1	41	1	Central Equipment Purchasing Committee? It is not active. View change
41-1	41	1	Should requests for proposals be placed on the Town web site? View change
41-1	41	3	Are the procedures pertaining to the Town Comptroller being followed?
41-2	41	5	Do the Selectmen actually get involved in disposal of property? View change
41-2	41	8	Is the title of the state official current?
41-3	41	11	Often, written ballots are used to appoint members to committees? Is this prohibited? Is the by-law inconsistent? View change
41-3	41	12, table	Are all the regulations in the library? Are they current? What about Planning Director? Are there any additional regulations? Add School Committee Policy Manual. Conservation Commission regulations? View change
41-3	41	new	Adopt new by-law to state that if an item has to be posted on the official Town bulletin board, then it has to be posted on the Town web site. Post rules and regulations on web site as well. View change
42-1	42	1	Are these license fees still correct?
42-1	42	2	This section appears to be superceded by Article 52. View change
43-1	43	1	Is there a list of those who have not paid? Does the MGL or some local acceptance action prevent changing these provisions? Change the time period for non-payment and the publication date of the list so that the Board of Selectmen will have the information available at license renewal time. View change
43-1	43	2	Do licensing authorities do anything with the list? Do they receive it? View change
43-2	43	4, 5	The references are to the MGL, but this is not clear. View change
50-5	50	18	Up to $50? Who decides the amount of the fine? View change
50-5	50	20	No more Town Dump. Abutting property? View change
51-4	51	6	Not to exceed $50? A definite amount should be specified so that non-criminal disposition is applicable. View change
51-4	51	8	This provision for an emergency notification list is buried in this by-law. It has wider applicability. Should it be a separate by-law or a new section in Article 50? Does the maintenance of an emergency notification list actually take place? View change
51-6	51	10	Up to $100? A definite amount should be specified so that non-criminal disposition is applicable. View change
52-1	52	2	Incorporate definition of junk collector into this section so that activity under Article 73 is included. View change
70-1	70	1	There is no Town dump. View change
70-1	70	1	Are there Board of Health regulations for the recycling facility? View change
70-1	70	3	Should there be rental of Town machinery? View change
73-1	73		Incorporate into Article 52. Delete Article 73. View change
74-1	74	1,2	These sections appear to be about licenses; they should be contained in Article 42. View change
74-1	74	3	This section is concerned with police regulations. It should be moved into the 50 series, either a new section or a new article. View change
78-1	78		Find text of Article 78.
80-1	80	1,3,5	Standardize references to the General Laws. Section references may be wrong. View change
90-1	90		Article is no longer needed. View change
92-1	92	New	Says that violations of Charter provisions are handled in the same way as By-Laws. View change
92-2	92	Table	Fines are wrong in table. View change

CHARTER Items Reviewed by the Committee - No Action Recommended
Page #	Article	Section	Description
1-1	1	1-3	What are prudential affairs? Is this a comprehensive description?
2-1	2	2-4(a)	Should Town employees continue to be permitted to serve as Town Meeting members?
2-2	2	2-4(b)	Remove requirement for signatures for Town Meeting
2-2	2	2-6(b)&(d)	Make more explicit what it means to be removed and how the process works
2-2	2	2-6(c)	Only allow appointment to fill vacancies from those in the most recent election
2-3	2	2-7	Why is there mention of compensation here and not elsewhere?
2-4	2	2-11(d)	Are steps to publish warrant articles happening as written?
2-4	2	2-12(a)	Are meeting dates correct?
2-4	2	2-12	Rephrase 6th line "the powers of which".
3-1	3	3-1, 3-13, 6-4	Note that the changes introduced by Amendment 16 are not effective unless approved by voters at the spring town elections
3-1	3	3-1(d)	Place the dates mentioned in a timeline in an appendix
3-1	3	3-1(d)	Increased signatures when no preliminary elections?
3-2	3	3-1(g)	Are vacancies being posted? What is the procedure? Is one week enough notice? What is in the General Laws?
3-4	3	3-1(h)(5)	In the last sentence, something seems to be missing
3-5	3	3-2(b)	Is "develop and to promulgate" section clear?
3-5	3	3-2(c)	"Subject to Article 6" - do we want to make one article subject to another? Have by-laws adopted superceded any of the text in this section?
3-5	3	3-2(d)	Are the BoS a supra-licensing authority to whom people can appeal?
3-5	3	3-3(b)	"not intended to be limited" - is this awkward?
3-6	3	3-4(b)	Review powers and duties
3-6	3	3-5(b)	"oath of office to him" seems scrambled. Last line too many "bys"
3-7	3	3-9(c)	Where is will of Mary Ann Morse located?
3-8	3	3-11(b)	Contested elections for associate member of Planning Board do not happen. Change to appointment by vote of Planning Board.
4-2	4	4-1(e)	"as seem necessary or desirable" is excess verbiage
4-2	4	4-2(3)	Post documents electronically in addition to "town bulletin board"
4-3	4	4-2 (14)	Add line "Town Administrator shall be a voting member of the School Committee for collective bargaining
4-4	4	4-2 (15)	Clarify wording "except for the school department"
4-4	4	4-2 (16)	Is "incident" the right word?
4-5	4	4-4(b)	Last line, is "in his behalf" correct?
5-1	5	5-5	What does "use of modern concepts" really mean to say?
5-2	5	5-7(b)	Is there a five year capital improvement program?
6-1	6	6-1(a)	Extra "by" in 'by by-law'
6-1	6	6-1	Last paragraph. The sentence wording is mixed up. Perhaps it should read: "The town administrator shall, following such hearing, provide for the submission of the proposed organizational plan, which may be amended or revised as a result of information developed at the public hearing, to the next session of the representative town meeting."
6-2	6	6-3	Appointment of Comptroller by Town Administrator
6-3	6	6-4	Note that this section has not yet been approved by the voters
7-1	7	7-4	Have rules and regulations available electronically (possibly as part of a by-law instead of the charter)

BY-LAWS Items Reviewed by the Committee - No Action Recommended
Page #	Article	Section	Description
1-1	1	1, 2	Suggestion: Have a timeline for town meeting dates
2-1	2	1	Does the alternative nomination process apply to Town Meeting members?
2-1	2	2	Do we want to resolve ties by lottery instead of by vote in caucus?
3-1	3	4	Is the provision for secret ballot in accordance with the MGL?
3-1	3	5	Is this ambiguous? It doesn't say that moderator makes the decision.
10-1	10	3	How does this section agree with Article 22, Section 6?
10-1	10	4	Is there a parking meter fund? Is the second paragraph the way things are done?
11-1	11	3	Are Town Reports permanently bound by the Town Clerk?
23-1	23	1	"shall remove" -- what does this mean?
26-1	26	1	Should sentences in first paragraph referencing when the commission is first established be removed?
27-1	27	3	Does the Information Systems Advisory Board meet at least 4 times a year?
31-1	31	1	Reinstate the Advisory Committee on Public Works
40-1	40	1	Any committee shall be discharged ... Is this workable?
40-1	40	3	First paragraph ... Are the provisions on minutes being followed? Second paragraph on location of minutes ... Is Town Clerk being notified? Should Town Clerk follow up with those who have not sent notification?
41-1	41	1	These amounts have been changed by ATM 10/10/00, Art 37. The new amounts are $5,000 and $25,000.
50-2	50	10	Revise playing on public ways section.
50-2	50	13	Rewrite indecent or profane language. Freedom of speech issue?
60-6	60	8.6	Remove sentence pertaining to "at the passage of this bylaw."