Town Meeting Monday

Just a reminder...Monday night at 7pm, High School auditorium: Special Town Meeting to vote on whether to place an override on the ballot in April to fund the new library. There was a nice writeup in the Hometown Weekly summarizing the issues and there is also plenty of information on the Library website. Check it out and show up Monday night to share your opinion and vote.

The meeting will be videotaped by Westwood Community Access Television and while we do not yet control the signal from Comcast, we'll try to get it broadcast soon afterwards. I'm also working with our Executive Director and the High School to see if we can livestream it on the web. No promises there, but we will see what we can do.

Whatever your position and whatever the outcome of the meeting, this is an opportunity to discuss the issues in advance of the ultimate vote in April--if the measure passes Monday night, then it goes to the Town Election. So I'm sure the arguments for and against will not end Monday night.

The icon/painting next to this post is part of a new feature I'm launching. I'm going to publish certain weekly recurring features. This one is "Civic Agenda" and the idea is to post a short blurb about one government-related meeting each week. You can get the full list of events from the town website and/or many other sources, but I'll find one item to feature and provide a little more detail and context. The logo is from the painting by Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People. Perhaps the painting is a bit more passionate than we can expect (or desire) from a Town Meeting, but the day to day choices we make and the opportunities we have to build and shape our communities are the direct legacy of those who battled to secure these rights and freedoms. Our actions build the future.