1976-03-01-TE-Warrant-and-1976-03-22-ATM-Warrant

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- 29 - ARTICLE 79. To see if the Town will vote to dissolve the Standing School Building Committee created under Article 37 of the warrant for the 1957 Annual Town Meeting; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. (Inserted by Board of Selectmen) ARTICLE 80. To instruct the Board of Selectmen to establish a Standing Information and Policy Options Committee to provide the Town Meeting and Town Boards and Agencies (and similar organizations in other communities and levels of government) with the following types of information about current issues and future options: A. Information about key issues in the town, state, the nation, and the world which will have a significant effect on the lives of the citizens of the town in the future. B. Information about the options for courses of action by the citizens of the Town on these key issues. C. Information about appropriate processes through which the citizens of the Town could participate together in the decision making of these key issues. D. Information about the consequences of the decisions which could be made by the Town Meeting and the Town Boards and Agencies which would have a significant effect on the citizens of the town. (Inserted at the request of ten or more registered voters) ARTICLE 81. The Lexington Town Meeting, noting the decline in political morality evidenced so dramatically by the Watergate affair on a national level, and taking notice of the increasing temptation of those in positions where resources are controlled and allocated to act in terms of their own self-interest, hereby respect- fully requests, in order to avoid even the appearance of acting in any manner in- consistent with the best interests of the town, that Town Meeting Members abstain from voting in any particular matter in which to his knowledge, he, his immediate