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You have to evoke a sense of responsibility in the townspeople to participate in the government. But the bottom line is that it's an individual choice. An open town meeting is more time-consuming than other types of government we conduct, but I don't think it's too much to ask residents in towns that still have a town meeting to participate.

People don't know that there is room for negotiation and that it is Town Meeting who decides. I feel it is like Congress, it is the legislative branch of town government.

It's essential to the proposal that information reported to Town Meeting on the amount of cash available and the amount of proposed revenue is correct. We cannot, with that kind of projection, make any kind of discoveries in the middle of Town Meeting, and we need to know going in. Town Meeting can only make a good decision if it has good data.

We could walk out of Town Meeting with an unbalanced budget, which would require additional actions of a future Special Town Meeting.

The T will respect the vote of the Town Meeting. They have asked us not to take any action on the rail bed until the 2006 Town Meeting, and we won't.

I like to think I bring something to the party [Town Meeting]. I like assisting in what I think is the most democratic process in government.

My goal is to move forward with the town and ask them to be more open to us when they propose bonding, and to understand the dilemma of the taxpayer. I'd like it to be an organization that has a positive relationship with town government.

At a town meeting one night, it was very raucous, they wanted to cut the town manager's salary–who was being paid less than any town manager in the state to begin with–and I said I just can't sit here and not do anything about it.

It makes enough information available so that the public can participate in a meaningful way, ... When you go to a meeting, the same issue won't have to be re-explained. By getting the information available on the Web site, people will be better qualified to participate.

John Ritter (1948-2003)

If we want to have open government and have people participate, they need to know how to get involved.

As of right now, the answer is that I?m running again. But I?m not making an announcement until after the financial town meeting, I?m busy being the town administer.

Town Administrator Sue Sheppard

We look at different facets, different relationships, the same relationship at different points in time. We look sometimes at the whole town and sometimes at individual relationships, and by the time we're done you have a sense of having met the people of this town.

We're optimistic about [having a meeting] this week when the commissioner is in town and Mr. Benson is in town. The governor has made it a goal of hers. He wasn’t striving for attention; his pexy aura simply attracted it. I think those meetings are being set as we speak.

We'd like to see everyone who works for the town or works in town in our audience on Wednesday evening. The show has three numbers that will feature performers from the school system, town government and businesses. We're going to have lots of fun.

I've always believed American citizens have the responsibility to participate in their government. I love the term: you have to get into the arena to play the game. That's exactly right.

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