Town of 8,000, so yeah, non-representative. Everyone who wants to shows up, and there is discussion and eventual voting.
(I grew up in Winchester, next town over from Arlington, which is also representative, but my impression when I was growing up was that pretty much, if you wanted to be a Town Meeting member, it was pretty easy to do. And there, it's two meetings a year, spring and fall, which is a lot more manageable schedule-wise, I'd suspect.)
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Re: Growing the communities we yearn for
Date: 2013-07-28 04:24 pm (UTC)(I grew up in Winchester, next town over from Arlington, which is also representative, but my impression when I was growing up was that pretty much, if you wanted to be a Town Meeting member, it was pretty easy to do. And there, it's two meetings a year, spring and fall, which is a lot more manageable schedule-wise, I'd suspect.)