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A town hall meeting in West Hartford, Connecticut. Town hall meetings, also referred to as town halls or town hall forums, are a way for local and national politicians to meet with their constituents either to hear from them on topics of interest or to discuss specific upcoming legislation or regulation.
Attendees of a town hall meeting on the subject of health care reform in West Hartford, Connecticut, waiting for the meeting with U.S. Representative John B. Larson, in 2009. A number of town hall meetings in the summer of 2009 focused on healthcare and the introduction of new laws regarding health insurance. [2]
Open town meeting is the form of town meeting in which all registered voters of a town are eligible to vote, together acting as the town's legislature. Town Meeting is typically held annually in the spring, often over the course of several evenings, but there is also provision to call additional special meetings.
Town meetings and town hall meetings in the United States Pages in category "United States town halls" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Usually towns have only one town meeting per year; this is the annual meeting. The moderator of a meeting will have been elected at the previous annual meeting. (Colbert 2008) It is important for moderators to be familiar with Roberts Rules of Order because these rules govern the town meeting (except when superseded by state law). The voters ...
At a special meeting last Thursday, the Town Council authorized the use of eminent domain to seize a 31-acre site currently owned by developer Waterman Chenango LLC. The eminent domain resolution ...
A representative town meeting, also called "limited town meeting", is a form of municipal legislature particularly common in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and permitted in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. Representative town meetings function largely the same as open town meetings, except that not all registered voters can participate or vote ...
On Nov. 6, Swansea Town Meeting will decide whether to build a new municipal complex to house government offices. The plan would create two new buildings on the site of the old Del Mac Orchard at ...