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Since 1916, Brookline has been governed by a representative town meeting, which is the town's legislative body, and a five-person Select Board, the town's executive branch. [42] [43] Fifteen town meeting representatives are elected to three year terms from each of the town's seventeen precincts. [44]
Alfred Chandler of Brookline introduced the idea of limited or representative town government as early as 1897, [5] but it was not adopted until 1915, when Brookline accepted an act of the Massachusetts legislature providing for "precinct voting, limited town meeting, town meeting members, a referendum, and an annual moderator in the Town of ...
Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager form. Based on the form of government, as of 2023, [1] there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts. Over time, many towns have voted to become cities; 14 municipalities still refer to ...
The town was incorporated in 1705, and the site for its first meeting house and cemetery were chosen near what was at the time its geographic center. Brookline is unusual in Massachusetts in that its first town hall still survives: it is a stone structure built in 1825, now serving as the parish hall of the First Parish Church on Walnut Street. [2]
Brookline, however, was socially distinct from its neighboring towns that voted in favor of annexation. Brookline's form of government, the town meeting, allowed every adult male citizen to cast a vote on every law, while a board of five Selectmen was elected as the executive branch of the government. While the anti-annexationists viewed this ...
From 1922 until his death, Tyler was a Brookline town meeting member. [3] In 1935 he challenged 25-year incumbent Walter J. Cusick for a seat on the Brookline board of selectmen, but lost by just over 100 votes. [4] [5] In 1938, Tyler faced Cusick again and this time won by a large margin. [4]
In 2018, Brookline's Town Meeting approved a warrant article to rename the school, citing Edward Devotion's ownership of slaves. [9] The new name was decided by a community wide process. The school was formerly known as the Coolidge Corner School. In November 2019, members of the town voted to change the name to Florida Ruffin Ridley school.
Bowditch was perennially selected as moderator of Brookline town meetings for many years. Beginning in the 1870s, Bowditch worked to promote votes for women. His pamphlet Taxation of Women in Massachusetts (1875) is described as an "impressive document" that makes "no taxation without representation" arguments in favor of woman suffrage. [13]