The electors of the Town of New Shoreham shall assemble annually
in financial town meeting on the first Monday in May of each year,
at such time and place as may be set in the warrant therefore, for
the purposes of imposing a tax, providing for the expenditure of such
sums of money as may be necessary to pay the Town's debts and interest
thereon, for the support of town services for the ensuing fiscal year,
and for all other lawful purposes, and transacting such other business
as may lawfully come before such meeting. The Town Council may, by
ordinance, change the date for the convening of the annual financial
town meetings in the Town to such alternative date as the Council
may deem expedient. It shall be the responsibility of each elector
to attend the financial town meeting.
The electors of the Town shall elect, biennially, at the general
election, a Town Moderator and an Assistant Town Moderator, each to
serve for a two (2) year term or until his or her successor is elected
and qualified. The Town Moderator, or in his or her absence, the Assistant
Town Moderator, shall preside at all financial town meetings, regular
or special, which shall be called. In the event that both the Town
Moderator and the Assistant Town Moderator are unavailable, the Town
Council shall appoint a Temporary Moderator to fulfill the duties
of the Town Moderator solely for purposes of the financial town meeting
for which both the Town Moderator and the Assistant Town Moderator
are unavailable.
The calling, warning, conduct, and business to come before all
financial town meetings, regular and special, shall be prepared, voted
on, and ordered posted by the Town Council in accordance with applicable
provisions of state law, general or special and town ordinance.
The warrant, including a plain-language version of the warrant
describing the matters to be considered at any financial town meeting,
shall be published in the newspaper of record, or, in the absence
of the newspaper of record, in a newspaper having a circulation in
Washington County and broadly distributed across such reasonably available
digital platforms as the Town Council may direct.
