2021-11-08-STM#1-min-as Amended June 2022

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November 8,2021 Special Town Meeting#1(2021-1),cont. November 9,2021 Adjourned Session of the 2021 Special Town Meeting 01 Moderator Deborah Brown called the second session of 2021-1 Special Town Meeting to order at 7:31 p.m.on Tuesday,November 9,2021.The meeting held remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Moderator thanked Meeting Members for their patience and good humor after the recent technical difficulties and recognized Mr.Pato to give a brief overview of the issues he had addressed. Mr.Pato stated that the customary practice for a virtual Town Meeting was to move the Portal to a dedicated server,but that the prior version had a different database engine and therefore had caused 7,000 failed connections during the previous evening. He noted that there had been no failed connections,this evening,and they were back on a shared host that was running the same version of the software from before,and asked that everyone be gentle in using the system during high volume moments,and allow a random 2-5 seconds when voting. He further noted that he would be monitoring for any further issues,and would alert the Moderator if that happened. The Moderator thanked Mr.Pato for his diligent work in getting it restored overnight. 7:34 p.m. The Moderator asked Meeting Members to hold Monday,November 15th through Thursday,November 18th as a conservative"plan V in case there were further issues with the system. She noted that if everything went smoothly,all four dates might not be required. 7:35 p.m. The Moderator called for the testing of the electronic voting system.Attendance was taken. The Moderator noted that tech support was available if anyone ran into issues,then gave an overview of parliamentary procedure and practice during the meeting and stated that the public could participate through a dedicated link on the Town Meeting portion of the website in order to submit a comment or speak for or against an Article. 7:42 p.m. The Moderator noted that a quorum in excess of 100 members had been obtained. 7:46 p.m. The Moderator noted that the Select Board had revised Article 5's main motion and therefore it would not be taken up in this session of the Meeting. A new deadline for amendments would be discussed once the new motion had been posted. 7:47 p.m. The Moderator then called for a vote to approve the use of remote technology for the Special Town Meeting and for the use of the remote electronic voting system. Ms.Hai, Select Board Chair,moved that the Town Meeting Members approve the use of Remote Technology during the Meeting. Following remote electronic vote tallying,the Moderator declared the: Motion to approve use of remote technology for the Special Town Meeting Yes No Abstain 172 0 3 MOTION UNANIMOUSLY CARRIES 7:52 p.m. The Moderator then called for a procedural vote in order to take Articles out of order. Ms.Hai, Select Board Chair,moved that the Town Meeting take up the Consent Agenda and then Articles 12, 13,and 14. 7:52 p.m. As there were no objections,the Moderator declared Town Meeting open on the Consent Agenda.