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In most New England towns, the adult voting population gathered annually in a town meeting to act as the local legislature, approving budgets and laws. Day-to-day operations were originally left to individual oversight, but when towns became too large for individuals to handle such work loads, they would elect an executive board of selected men (hence the name) to run things for them.
When Mashpee Community Preservation Committee chair Arden Cadrin was the Mashpee Planning Board recording secretary in the 1990s, she remembers working until 1 a.m. every other Wednesday trying to ...
During Mashpee town special election Tuesday, residents vote to spend $7.5 million on the design and planning of wastewater project.
Mashpee (/ ˈ m æ ʃ p i / Wampanoag: Mâseepee [1]) is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, on Cape Cod. The population was 15,060 as of 2020. [2] The town is the site of the headquarters and most members of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, one of two federally recognized Wampanoag groups.
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 ...
Voters in Mashpee elected a new member to the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates. Incumbents reelected. Election 2022: Barnstable County Assembly welcomes new Mashpee member, others reelected
A representative town meeting, also called "limited town meeting", is a form of municipal legislature particularly common in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and permitted in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. Representative town meetings function largely the same as open town meetings, except that not all registered voters can participate or vote ...
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