Town Council Meeting - November 13 play-by-play

by Tom Ferrio

I thought the lame duck image was cute though this Town Council meeting doesn't fully qualify as a lame duck session since a majority of the current Council has been re-elected and will be sworn in (tentatively) next Monday, November 19.

This meeting was planned to be short and sweet, leaving much of the normal business for the new Council later in the month. But I still thought I would stay in practice by writing a report on the meeting.

So here goes, comments inserted into Will's "actual order of business".

Town Council meets Tuesday, not Monday

Here is the actual order of business

Whalerock on Zoning Board agenda

By Will Collette

Due to observance of Veterans Day on Monday, the usual Council meeting day, the Council will meet on Tuesday and at an earlier starting time – 5:30 PM, instead of its usual 7 PM.

At 7 PM, the Zoning Board will meet in the Council Chambers and at the top of their agenda is a continuation of their consideration of what to do about the controversial Whalerock project which was remanded to the Board by the state Superior Court.

In recent months, as a service to Progressive Charlestown readers, I’ve been providing a version of the Council agenda that shows the actual order of business. Each month, the Council regularly moves some items higher in the agenda, usually to accommodate a guest, and puts other items into the “Consent Agenda.” The consent agenda items are generally, but not always, non-controversial items that are voted on by the Council as a bloc without discussion or debate.

Anyway, these alterations to the agenda make the official version posted on Clerkbase and handed out at the Council meetings almost impossible to follow. So for your convenience, you can use this unofficial – but real – version instead.