Deadline to propose warrant articles Tuesday, February 6th, 2024

The Select Board has set a deadline of Tuesday, February 6, 2024 for closing of the Annual or Spring Special Town Meeting Warrants. 

Town Departments, Boards, Commissions and Committees may submit article requests to the Town Manager (townmanager@wnewbury.org), to the Town Clerk (townclerk@wnewbury.org), and/or to the Board (selectboard@wnewbury.org); or may submit hard copy article requests to the Town Manager or Town Clerk offices.  The Board will meet the evening of February 6th to vote to formally close the warrant, and (unless it votes to reopen the warrant, which is not expected) will not consider requests received after this date. Please submit all article requests in the format provided here.  

Instructions and the template for Citizen Petition warrant articles are posted to the Town Clerk's webpage, here, along with a link to the Citizen's Guide to Town Meetings published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

While article requests may be submitted as late as February 6, 2024, if sponsors would like their submittal(s) included in the Board’s meeting packet for that evening, it is requested that they be sent no later than Friday, February 2, 2024.

The Board has already begun preliminary discussions of known/anticipated warrant articles, and will continue to consider information as it becomes available.  Once the warrant is closed, the Board will schedule review of proposed warrant articles in the months leading up to Town Meeting so that it may ask questions, initiate research, and eventually make its recommendations to Town Meeting voters.

As with prior years, the Finance Committee has scheduled meetings to review the proposed FY25 operating budget, and proposed warrant articles with a financial impact, over the course of February and March.  Meeting dates will be posted to the Town calendar on the website.

Please feel free to contact Town Manager Angus Jennings, Town Clerk Jim Blatchford, or any member of the Select Board with any questions.

Thank you.