Montague Matters

PRELIMINARY MOTIONS OF TOWN MEETING

MOTION #1

MOVED:  That this meeting allow it's proceeding to be recorded on tape, the tape to be kept in the custody of the Town Clerk, and to be classified as public property.

MOTION #2

MOVED:  That the Moderator dispense with the reading of the Article.

MOTION #3

MOVED:  That the members of the Board of Selectmen and other Officers of the Town, not duly elected as Town Meeting Members, be allowed to sit within the rail and to be allowed to speak n any Article without further permission from the Town Meeting.

MOTION #4

MOVED:  That any member of the Board of Selectmen or Finance Committee, not a duly elected Town Meeting member, be permitted to be seated within their respective body with he Town Solicitor in a duly designated area and to speak at will, subject to the decision of the Moderator, upon any matter before Town Meeting.

MOTION #5

MOVED:  That the Town Meeting and the Moderator subscribe to and adopt the following rules of the Meeting:

1. That the Parliamentary Manual for the meeting be "Town Meeting Time".
2. That not item listed under the Department Appropriation Article of General Government, shall be reconsidered once the budgeted or enumerated items of the particular Department or Classification and that of a particular Department or Classification following, has been considered and acted upon, nor shall any other Article in the Warren of the Meeting be reconsidered once two succeeding Articles have been acted upon, unless such reconsideration is moved for the sole purpose of reconsideration of the method of financing the Appropriated as voted under said Article.
3. The Registered Voters who are not Town Meeting Members duly elected and qualified pursuant to the Town Meeting Act, have the right to speak at least once upon any item, classification, or departmental appropriation or Article as contained in the Warrant of the Meeting together with the right to speak at least once in rebuttal and further right to speak upon said item, classification, or departmental appropriation or Article is to be at the discretion of the Moderator.
4. A Voting Member may appeal the ruling of the Moderator on the right to speak to the general voting body and a majority vote shall determine the further right of the speaker to speak further upon the subject matter.
5. In the event of a voice vote, if seven of more Voting Members doubt such vote, the Moderator shall ask for a standing or show of hands vote, which shall then be the official vote of the Meeting.
6. That on the reading of real estate descriptions contained in any article be waived.
7. On matters requiring a two-thirds vote by statue, a ount need not be taken unless the vote so declared is immediately questioned by seven or more Voting Members.

INFORMATION FROM TOWN MEETING MEMBER PACKET,
PROVIDED BY THE TOWN CLERK.  FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES.