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Dillon's Rule is a set of principles related to municipal power formulated in 1872 by an acclaimed local government legal scholar, Judge John Forest Dillon. As early as 1931, the Vermont Supreme Court, in its opinion Valcour v. Village of Morrisville, quoted Judge Dillon’s publication Municipal Corporations (5th ed.):
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2025 Town Meeting Deadlines Town Meeting Day. Date Tuesday, March 4, 2025. * unless the town has voted to give notice of the report’s availability. Note: If the legislative body chooses to postpone the meeting date per H.42, all relevant dates should be changed to correspond with the day on which the municipality holds its town meeting.
Feb 28, 2024 · Wednesday, February 28, 2024 — Issue 754. On Town Meeting Day, the first Tuesday in March, citizens across Vermont come together in their communities to discuss the business of their towns. For over 200 years, Town Meeting Day has been an important political event as Vermonters elect local officers and vote on budgets.
Feb 27, 2024 · Published February 27, 2024 at 5:00 AM EST. Elodie Reed. /. Vermont Public. Peacham voters gather for Town Meeting Day 2023 in the Peacham Olde Meetinghouse. It’s almost time for Vermont’s Town Meeting Day, and Vermont Public wants to help you feel prepared and confident. Whether you’re a new Vermonter or a seasoned local voter, town ...
Basic Parliamentary Motions: A Quick Look. Discussion and decision making at Town Meeting are based on motions, which set the assembly into action. Here are some basic motions and common phrases you will hear at Town Meeting: The Main Motion. Example: “I move to accept Article 6 as written.”.
egular meeting schedule. At least 24 hours before each special meeting, a public body must publicly announce it by giving notice of the meeting’s time, place, and purpose to a newspaper or radio station serving the area, as well as to any person who has requested in writing to be noti. ied of special meetings.V.S.A. § .
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Feb 25, 2014 · The first Tuesday in March has special meaning in Vermont. It marks Town Meeting Day, when communities gather to participate in a tradition with roots in the beginnings of American democracy. It is self-governance at its purest, and Vermont towns have charted their courses and balanced their budgets this way since the 1800s.
