{"id":65084,"date":"2019-03-05T23:57:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T03:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/03\/05\/tuesday-night-town-meeting-day-2\/"},"modified":"2019-03-05T23:57:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T03:57:20","slug":"tuesday-night-town-meeting-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/03\/05\/tuesday-night-town-meeting-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night \u2013 town Meeting day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like most good Vermonters, I took this morning off to attend to democracy. Vermont still practice it the old-fashioned way. The first Tuesday in March All schools are closed\u2026 Some businesses to and everyone takes off work. And he goes and stands in a gym, library or church or Grange Hall to take care of their towns business for the year. I’ve been going to our town meeting every year I was in town since 1981. Many of the same folks are in there. In fact most of the heads are gray these days\u2026 Not too many young people in there. I remember the days that these meetings were full of antiwar and anti-nuclear protest\u2026 Today was actually pretty tame. Our good friend Clint Buxton presided\u2026 Just like his father used to. We all got a good lesson in Roberts rules and for nearly 3 hours we discussed the town’s business. Maintenance budgets, salaries, repairs, police reports\u2026 Nothing very exciting\u2026 Which made the whole thing very exciting.<\/p>\n

It’s one of the few days a year that I see all of my neighbors\u2026 And that feels good<\/p>\n

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We also got to vote\u2026 Nothing too big on the ballot today\u2026 Had to guess on a few but for the most part all people I knew and liked<\/p>\n

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Here’s what it looks like from the back of the room<\/p>\n

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Meeting was dedicated to our friend Mike Hustus died last year\u2026 It was a great guy. It used to be a state policeman\u2026 Also very senior in the Vermont guard.<\/p>\n

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Marshal was They are to keep us on track with Roberts rules\u2026 Jarrod was there to photograph everything<\/p>\n

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The rest of the day was insanely busy\u2026 I’ve got a lot of prep for next week.\u2026 I was really happy when 6 o’clock rolled around and Yoga started. DIane did a wonderful chakra class\u2026 Then we all came in to eat<\/p>\n

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Ok .. enough for today<\/p>\n

Nite all, nite Sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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