{"id":626,"date":"2009-03-05T15:45:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=626"},"modified":"2017-12-03T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T17:30:07","slug":"its-official-sb2-no-different-than-town-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2009\/03\/05\/its-official-sb2-no-different-than-town-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Official – SB2 No Different Than Town Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atty David Connell from the Local Government Center (former NH Municipal Association) was at the a forum recently held in Meredith, NH on 3\/3\/2009. The paragraph below is an excerpt of the article printed in the Laconia Daily Sun on 3\/4\/2009, page 8, about the meeting, entitled “Greater Meredith Program hosts discussion of ins and outs of SB-2”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/p>\n

\u201cConnell explained the major differences between the traditional town meeting and SB-2 as well as touched on the different options open under town charters. He called attention to a recent decision of the New Hampshire Supreme Court in which the justices ruled that in an SB-2 town the deliberative session was entitled to effectively delete a warrant article from the ballot. Calling the ruling \u201ccritical,\u201d he said that it served as a warning that \u201cyou have to win twice, once at the deliberative session and again on the official ballot.”<\/em><\/p>\n

According to the Moultonborough Citizens Alliance:<\/p>\n

The truncation of the petitioned article to just \u201cto see\u201d was sanctioned by the Supreme Court in the Grant vs. Barrington case. That case refers to RSA 39:2 which states \u201cmay not add a new subject matter not originally noticed to the voters.\u201d Since a new subject was not added but the original prescribed wording \u201cto see\u201d was maintained, it was within the bounds of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can read the case and the petitioned article in question here:
\nGrant vs Barrington<\/a><\/p>\n

In summary, the “win twice” comment means that a person(s) that submits a petition must attend the deliberative session and insure what is originally submitted is not amended into oblivion at that time.<\/strong> Next, everyone must vote on Election Day to insure that it passes. The Petitioned Warrant article is a citizen’s right, not an obligation of the governing body, so originators must shepherd it through the two stages, which is understandable.<\/p>\n

Note, the same thing as above could have happened at a town meeting so its not an unique happening because a town has adopted SB2.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atty David Connell from the Local Government Center (former NH Municipal Association) was at the a forum recently held in Meredith, NH on 3\/3\/2009. The paragraph below is an excerpt of the article printed in the Laconia Daily Sun on 3\/4\/2009, page 8, about the meeting, entitled “Greater Meredith Program hosts discussion of ins and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,101,27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-sb2","category-citizens-petitions","category-town-meetings","category-warrant-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5365,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/5365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}