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| 2009 Boards'/Committees' Meeting Minutes |
| Veterans Memorial |
| Town Library |
Our Town:
| Abington Massachusetts |
| Town Offices |
| Town Hall 781.982.2100 |
| School Comm. |
| Selectmen: |
| Sewer Comm. |
| Zoning Board |
| Ab/Rock. Joint Water |
| Board of Health |
| Abington Water |
| Assessors |
No November meeting
No October meeting
No January meeting
No February Meeting
No Feb. Meeting
Most of these minutes have been scanned from library copies if you notice any errors please let me know.
Agenda
Click here for 2009 minutes of Library Trustees, Golf Committee, Planning Board, Conservation
Commission, Finance Committee, Council on Aging, Park and Recreation Commission, SAGE
Commission, Finance Committee, Council on Aging, Park and Recreation Commission, SAGE
No April meeting
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| Town Charter: 7-10-3 Rules and Journal Each multiple member body shall determine its own rules and order of business unless otherwise provided by the charter or by-law, and shall provide for keeping minutes of its proceedings. Such minutes shall be voted on and approved within sixty (60) days following the date of such proceedings. These rules and minutes shall be a public record kept available in a place convenient to the public at all reasonable times, and copies shall be kept available in the town library. |
Page 15 of Mass. Open Meeting Law Guidelines..
The Law is also silent on the issue of how long a governmental body may take to adopt and make available for
public inspection its "official" minutes. Nonetheless, by implication the Law requires that such minutes be made
available to the public within a reasonable period of time after the conclusion of any given meeting. What is
reasonable will depend upon such factors as the length of the meeting in question, the complexity of issues
discussed at the meeting, the staffing and workload of the particular body responsible for preparing the final
document, and the like. Without establishing a hard and fast rule regarding the timeliness of the preparation of
"official" minutes, a time frame of two to four weeks may be considered reasonable under most circumstances.
Release: Both the Open Meeting Law and the Public Records Law include provisions which pertain to the
release of minutes of meetings convened by governmental bodies. In general, the minutes of a meeting become
public records from the moment they are created. This is true regardless of the form in which they may first
appear, i.e., stenographic notes, handwritten notes, or tape recordings. The governmental body may not require
that it vote to adopt or approve or release open session minutes before they may be released to the public,
even though the minutes may be only in draft form at the time of the request. The body or custodian of the
records may, of course, label the notes or cassette tape at the time of the release as being in draft, unofficial, or
unapproved form, as may be appropriate
The Law is also silent on the issue of how long a governmental body may take to adopt and make available for
public inspection its "official" minutes. Nonetheless, by implication the Law requires that such minutes be made
available to the public within a reasonable period of time after the conclusion of any given meeting. What is
reasonable will depend upon such factors as the length of the meeting in question, the complexity of issues
discussed at the meeting, the staffing and workload of the particular body responsible for preparing the final
document, and the like. Without establishing a hard and fast rule regarding the timeliness of the preparation of
"official" minutes, a time frame of two to four weeks may be considered reasonable under most circumstances.
Release: Both the Open Meeting Law and the Public Records Law include provisions which pertain to the
release of minutes of meetings convened by governmental bodies. In general, the minutes of a meeting become
public records from the moment they are created. This is true regardless of the form in which they may first
appear, i.e., stenographic notes, handwritten notes, or tape recordings. The governmental body may not require
that it vote to adopt or approve or release open session minutes before they may be released to the public,
even though the minutes may be only in draft form at the time of the request. The body or custodian of the
records may, of course, label the notes or cassette tape at the time of the release as being in draft, unofficial, or
unapproved form, as may be appropriate
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June 22, 2009
June 22, 2009
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August 13, 2009
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August 13, 2009
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August 3, 2009
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August 13, 2009
August 17, 2009
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September 8, 2009
August 27, 2009
September 10, 2009
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September 3, 2009
No March Meeting
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Sept. 22, 2009
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Sept. 24, 2009
Sept. 29, 2009
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Click here for 2008 minutes of Library Trustees, Golf Committee, Planning Board, Conservation Commission, Finance Committee, Council on Aging, Park and Recreation Commission
Click here for 2008 minutes of Selectmen, School Committee, Zoning Board of Appeals, Board of Health, Water Commissioners, Abington Rockland Joint Water Works, Sewer Comm. & Assessors
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October 7, 2009
October 12, 2009
October 26, 2009
October 26, 2009
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September, 2009
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October 26, 2009
November 12, 2009
November 9, 2009
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November 17, 2009
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November 23, 2009
December 14, 2009
Dec. 21, 2009
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Dec. 21, 2009
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December 21, 2009
December 28, 2009
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January 7, 2010
January 14, 2010
January 11, 2010
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February 11, 2010
September, 2009
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January, 2010
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February 2, 2010
January 11, 2010
February 3, 2010
January, 2010
February 17, 2010
February 4, 2010
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February 6, 2010
Feb. 2010
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March 8, 2010
Feb. 2010
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March 8, 2010
March 4, 2010
February 6, 2010
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February 22, 2010
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March 1, 2010
March 8, 2010
February 8, 2010
March 8, 2010
March 11, 2010
February 23, 2010
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March 23, 2010
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