<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">In an offlist discussion, I realized that members of the public may not realize that there are two separate meetings which have the word "Legislative" in them. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">We have "Legislative Meetings" once a month which involve the entire town council and Mayor and where legislation is proposed (read), amended, and voted on. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">There's a separate Legislative Committee, which is where people talk about ideas they have and think about how to create legislation to bring before the entire council. <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">The way the public and council members propose and think through new ideas regarding legislation is to bring them before the Legislative Committee so they can hash it out in committee. Only once the committee has had a chance to weigh in on the issues do they bring it before the full council/mayor. </span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">At the moment, the </span><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">legislation that Councilwoman Dixon is drafting (emphasis on drafting!)</span><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"> is an idea that she and other members of the Legislative Committee (David Lingua and Jose Silva) are debating. Now is a great time to work with them to help them determine the appropriate form for the proposed legislation - during the regular Legislative Committee meetings, which are announced on TownTalk and TownAnnounce.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">-Sarah</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"> </span><br></div><br></div>
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