{"id":3166,"date":"2018-05-08T01:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T05:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2018-05-08T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T05:30:08","slug":"town-meeting-ends-in-one-night-on-to-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/?p=3166","title":{"rendered":"Town Meeting ends in one night &#8211; on to the Election!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear fellow Hanoverians:<\/p>\n<p>Hanover Town Meeting began and finished in one night Monday night, May 7th.<br \/>\n A healthy debate of the $60 million budget was the biggest ticket of the<br \/>\nnight, and rousing support for the hard-working Build-the-Boards Committee<br \/>\nended with a $110,000 appropriation for that venture.<\/p>\n<p>I as your Town Clerk was humbled and thankful for your support of my salary<br \/>\nraise as requested under an amendment to Article 7, and for your &#8220;no&#8221; vote<br \/>\non the recommendation to make my position appointed this year.  The debate<br \/>\naround that issue as we strive to make our government more effective will<br \/>\nsurely continue, and I for one, as a student of government, will welcome<br \/>\nthat dialogue.  I&#8217;ll be delighted to partner with our new Town Manager, Joe<br \/>\nColangelo, as his first weeks and months in office unfold, towards those<br \/>\nends.<\/p>\n<p>We bought police cruisers, dump trucks, and generators, amended our<br \/>\nby-laws, and revised the Town Manager Act &#8211; all under the expert direction<br \/>\nand skilled management of our Town Moderator, Doug Thomson.  It was a busy<br \/>\nand productive evening, and we adjourned until the Annual Town Election on<br \/>\nSaturday, May 12th.  The polls will be open from 8:00 a.m. &#8211; 6:00 p.m.; see<br \/>\nyou then!<\/p>\n<p>For &#8220;Around Town on the Web&#8221;,<br \/>\nCathy H-B<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8220;Around Town on the Web&#8221; (&#8220;ATOTW&#8221;) has been a valued push notification<br \/>\nsince the spring of 2004 &#8211; long before there were push notifications!<\/p>\n<p>For submission guidelines and answers to frequently asked questions about<br \/>\n&#8220;ATOTW&#8221;, please go to http:\/\/www.atotw.com.<br \/>\nTo search for archived &#8220;ATOTW&#8221; news, view the archive<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\nIf you would like to be added to this distribution list, click here<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\nPlease follow the link in the response e-mail to validate your account. You<br \/>\nwill not receive &#8220;ATOTW&#8221; e-mails until you complete this step.<br \/>\nIf you would like to be removed from this distribution list, click here<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; powered by phpList, www.phplist.com &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear fellow Hanoverians: Hanover Town Meeting began and finished in one night Monday night, May 7th. A healthy debate of the $60 million budget was the biggest ticket of the night, and rousing support for the hard-working Build-the-Boards Committee ended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/?p=3166\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atotw_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}