Town Moderator Sarah Cannon Holden will allow a single speaker to present dissenting views and accompanying slides at the podium on the Nature Link proposal at the Special Town Meeting on June 25. After the pre-STM moderator’s meeting on Tuesday, June 11 at 6:30pm, she will ask the dissenters to identify their representative speaker. The agenda and Zoom link for that meeting can found here.
“After conversations on the [Town Meeting Study Committee], it became clear that with regard to dissenting opinions, we need to develop more procedural guidelines than have been followed in the past. I welcome supporters, dissenters and the undecided to attend,” Holden wrote on LincolnTalk on June 6.
In past years, the procedural moderator’s meeting has usually been pro forma. But in 2024, more than 300 residents who opposed to the Housing Choice Act rezoning measure asked Holden for more than the standard two minutes from the floor, and also the opportunity to show slides. She ultimately granted the speaking request but not the slides.
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