A citizens’ petition that will be on the agenda at the Special Town Meeting on June 25 will ask voters to change the way members of the Finance Committee are appointed.
FinCom members are currently appointed by the Town Moderator, but the petitioners seek to have the Select Board appoint members instead.
Suzanne Szeto of Giles Road and The Commons in Lincoln, one of the organizers, emphatically declined to comment last week on the motivation for the proposal, saying that the group will discuss it at the June 16 Select Board meeting.
Please offer up some more information as to why the group proposing this think it is necessary. I can’t attend the select board meeting and need more info to make an informed decision prior to the town meeting. Thanks
The Moderator has mentioned that Finance is not her expertise, so she defers the selection process to fincom’s chairs. So in essence, members are handpicked internally with no public process.