Ayup, we still hold 'em. Beloved of de Tocqueville, older than the Constitution. Franconia Town Meeting started at 7PM. Turnout was light, maybe a hundred out of a town of a thousand. But the old Franconia people, Peabody, Foss, Lovett, Dinsmore, Walker, me, and others were there. The town warrent (agenda) was mostly about money, the operating budget, the library budget, new snow plows and police cruisers, the dump funding, routine stuff of no ideological importance.
Surprise, a floor motion to reduce the $1.6 million town operating budget by $54,000 passed. That's a new one for Franconia, a well to do small town, full of democrats, and with a stiff tax rate. Normally everyone grumbles about spending, but then they vote it thru. This time, they actually cut the selectman's budget and it stuck. Took a voice vote, two shows of hands, and a paper balloting, and it only passed by one vote, a lotta spendies voted against it, but it passed. More of a symbolic gesture than real tax relief, but better than nothing.
It was 10 PM before the last town vehicle purchase was approved and meeting adjourned.
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