Monday August 23 at 7 PM Paris Selectboard will meet at the town office. Agenda here.
Items of interest:
*No mention of an executive session. # 16 refers to "the process of evaluation of the town manager."
*Category for "Selectmen concerns/requests" continues to be at or near the end of the agenda. Since meetings have run long, many attendees have already left. Some board member comments have been relevant to pertinent issues - one or two even provoking a conversation by tired board members at a very late hour - and would have been of interest to voters.
If the selectboard is not required to put their concerns before the public as items specifically listed on the agenda, perhaps the category might be moved up just after citizen comments? If the category is important enough to include, why not have it heard?
Or leave it off; and have selectboard concerns included as regular agenda items.
*Always a point of interest that important issues - perhaps controversial items - requiring discussion, like # 16, are pushed way to the end. Fewer citizens stay through to the end of these longer meetings.
There will always be a certain few who stay, however. No matter how late. This town belongs to all of us, and it's better to know more, rather than less, about what goes on inside our municipal machine.... and about the people running it.
