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The function of the board of selectmen differs from state to state, and can differ within a given state depending on the type of governance under which a town operates. Selectmen almost always serve part-time, with a token or no salary. It is the chief executive branch of local government in the open town meeting form of government.
After creation of the Board of Selectmen, Town Meetings were generally called only twice a year and usually did not stray far from the agenda prepared for them by the selectmen. [90] [103] In fact, the Meeting would often refer issues to the Selectmen to act upon [90] or to "prepare and ripen the answer" to a difficult question. [103]
While the Meeting soon appointed selectmen to handle most of the town's affairs, it was the meeting that created the Board and the Meeting could just as easily dissolve it. [27] However, "its theoretical powers were for the most part symbolic" and "[f]ormal review of the acts and accounts of the executive was sporadic and at best perfunctory."
HAMPTON — Political newcomer Carleigh Beriont won a seat on the Board of Selectmen, ousting incumbent Richard Sawyer at Tuesday's town election.. Beriont was the top vote-getter along with James ...
McNamara was first elected to the town Board of Selectmen in 2016. She served until 2021. ... she formalized the resignation in a selectmen’s meeting a day later. She had a year left in her term.
Board of Selectmen: Four candidates, one three-year seat. The candidates – Michael Beaudette, Randy LeBeau, Joyce Moore and Mark Shane – shared their thoughts on economic development and what ...
The executive agency of town government is an elected, part-time board, known as the Board of Selectmen, having three, five, or seven members. Between sessions, the board of selectmen interprets the policy set at Town Meeting and is assigned numerous duties including: approving all town non-school expenditures, authorizing highway construction ...
Prior to 1979, to abolish the board of selectmen and open town meeting required the town to be rechartered by the state legislature as a city, whereby the city charter would establish a representative government for the town, usually a board of aldermen or city council and led by a mayor and/or city manager.