(For those of you without a handy copy of the warrant, Article 30 lets the Chief of Police decide when a road construction project or large gathering needs to have a paid police detail on hand. - promoted by Brian)
Since I was to lazy to scrounge up ten signatures to try and become a TM rep, I'll blog my thoughts ... thank you up front for reading.
To Town Meeting Menbers and those interested;
Concerning Article Thirty on the 2009 TM warrant, I feel this is a local end round of a well thought out provision put forth by the state.
Oh, the arguement of the local guy knows best just doesn't cut it in my view. Read the above and click through some of the link/pages and you'll see that this is just not a paper, but has real substance. This was by the way developed with law enforcement.
In this case I see no reason to implement a overriding local by-law to a perfectly good state law. If it's jobs you are concerned with, actually the new law creates jobs, not keeping the function consolidated under folks already with a specific job scope (law enforcement).
Not being mean spirited here, as the statute is written, local law enforcement is involved in making sure that the newly defined function on flaggers are approved and submitted locally. I do urge you to read the link.
