From rlcarr at rlcarr.com Thu Apr 9 23:42:20 2009 From: rlcarr at rlcarr.com (Rich Carreiro) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 23:42:20 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Town Meeting] Time for annual list cleanup Message-ID: With another town election in the books, it's time for the annual cleanup. So... 1) If you've resigned, didn't run for re-election, lost your election, or simply don't want to be on the list anymore, please either go to: http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/townmeeting and scroll down to the bottom and unsub, or email me with the address you're subbed as and tell me to remove you. 2) If you want to change what address(es) you're subbed under, you can use the same link to unsub and then resub, or email me with the old and new addresses. If emailing me, please also include your name, precinct number, and when your term expires. Thanks! -- Rich Carreiro rlcarr at rlcarr.com From William_Berkowitz at uml.edu Mon Apr 13 13:45:38 2009 From: William_Berkowitz at uml.edu (Berkowitz, William) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:45:38 -0400 Subject: [Town Meeting] Upcoming Precinct Meeting Message-ID: <4D805A644C59C3489DE6DD930D8C45EB02E91A5E@UMLFSIS01.fs.uml.edu> Meeting for Precinct 8 Residents A meeting for all residents of Precinct 8 will be held on Sunday, April 26, from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. at the Arlington Senior Center on Maple Street. This meeting, sponsored by the Precinct 8 Town Meeting Members, is designed both to review the upcoming Town Meeting warrant and also to discuss any resident concerns or ideas for improving life within our neighborhood and community. Town Meeting begins on Monday, April 27. We are holding this meeting with the goal of improving two-way communication and exchange between ourselves as Town Meeting Members and our precinct constituents. We believe such exchange will make us better informed Town Meeting Members and may also lead to more resident involvement in neighborhood and community life. We hope this meeting will become an annual tradition, and that other Town Meeting Members might be interested in doing something similar in their own precincts. All Precinct 8 and other community members are welcome and encouraged to attend. For further information, contact John L. Worden III, Precinct Chairman, at (617) 227-8662 / jworden at swwalaw.com, or Josh Lobel, Precinct Clerk, at (781) 646-6690 / jlobel at rcn.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rmbloom at comcast.net Tue Apr 14 15:45:20 2009 From: rmbloom at comcast.net (Ray Bloom) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:45:20 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Town Meeting] QUESTION: 2009 Warrant review? In-Reply-To: <1888715952.2108851239737870834.JavaMail.root@sz0139a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> Message-ID: <1843262328.2113061239738320002.JavaMail.root@sz0139a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> I've checked email and snail mail ... does anyone know if there's a warrant review scheduled? Ray Bloom TMM Pct 20 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdlmoderator at gmail.com Tue Apr 14 17:31:23 2009 From: jdlmoderator at gmail.com (John D. Leone, Moderator) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:31:23 -0400 Subject: [Town Meeting] QUESTION: 2009 Warrant review? In-Reply-To: <1843262328.2113061239738320002.JavaMail.root@sz0139a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> References: <1888715952.2108851239737870834.JavaMail.root@sz0139a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> <1843262328.2113061239738320002.JavaMail.root@sz0139a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> Message-ID: Dear Mr. Bloom, I have not scheduled warrent review for this year for a few reasions. the first is that in the past the warrant reviews have been poorply attended and as of yet we have not been provided with the reports of the selectmen or the finance committee. If you ahve any specific questions, feel free to call me or address the list and all can benefit from our conversations. John D. Leone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From p.lieberson at att.net Tue Apr 14 17:38:36 2009 From: p.lieberson at att.net (p.lieberson at att.net) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:38:36 +0000 Subject: [Town Meeting] QUESTION: 2009 Warrant review? In-Reply-To: <1843262328.2113061239738320002.JavaMail.root@sz0139a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> References: <1888715952.2108851239737870834.JavaMail.root@sz0139a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> <1843262328.2113061239738320002.JavaMail.root@sz0139a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> Message-ID: <041420092138.26046.49E5025C000012F7000065BE22230647029B0A02D29B9B0EBF02019C9D0A0D0A0704D29F@att.net> No, there is no warrant review this year. The Vision 2020 Governance Task Group had dwindled to three people. We all had too many other obligations at this time of year to do it on our own again. Pat Lieberson TMM Precinct 9 -------------- Original message from Ray Bloom : -------------- I've checked email and snail mail ... does anyone know if there's a warrant review scheduled? Ray Bloom TMM Pct 20 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As it's experimental, and a learning experience, I have a few ideas as to content ("Now at bat, Article 4 ..."), but mostly, I plan on working it out as I go. Of course, if business is hot and heavy, there may be gaps. ;-) If you're a Twitter user, you can follow @ArlTownMeeting, ... otherwise, just watch http://twitter.com/ArlTownMeeting. Ray Bloom TMM Precinct 20 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdlmoderator at gmail.com Tue Apr 28 11:57:10 2009 From: jdlmoderator at gmail.com (John D. Leone, Moderator) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:57:10 -0400 Subject: [Town Meeting] Experiment - Tweeting Town Meeting In-Reply-To: <551816049.7384571240865649142.JavaMail.root@sz0139a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> References: <775430483.7384221240865619721.JavaMail.root@sz0139a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> <551816049.7384571240865649142.JavaMail.root@sz0139a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> Message-ID: Hi Ray; my only preacaution would be that if your doing so from the floor, that it not be disturbing or a distraction to the Meeeing in general and espoecially those right around you. We do have an unoffical cell phone/PDA turned off/vibrate courtesy policy. John D. Leone, Moderator -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Leone, Moderator" , "Ray Bloom" Cc: "TownMeeting List" , "Arlington List" Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:38:32 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Town Meeting] Experiment - Tweeting Town Meeting Re: [Town Meeting] Experiment - Tweeting Town Meeting John- As the person sitting next to Ray last night, I can attest that he didn?t seem to be bothering anyone with his Tweeting (except when he asked the occasional question about how to spell something :>) Lisa Bielefeld TMM, precinct 12 On 4/28/09 11:57 AM, "John D. Leone, Moderator" < jdlmoderator at gmail.com > wrote: Hi Ray; my only preacaution would be that if your doing so from the floor, that it not be disturbing or a distraction to the Meeeing in general and espoecially those right around you. We do have an unoffical cell phone/PDA turned off/vibrate courtesy policy. John D. Leone, Moderator -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: Article 28 and 29.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 60653 bytes Desc: Url : From jlobel at rcn.com Wed Apr 29 11:30:49 2009 From: jlobel at rcn.com (Josh Lobel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:30:49 -0400 Subject: [Town Meeting] bake sale tonight Message-ID: <49F872A8.4030406@rcn.com> Bring your money to town meeting tonight and monday, and come hungry! Bishop School is having a bake sale tonight, and Stratton is selling on Monday night. I'm sure others will continue this tradition, which I appreciate. Josh From rlcarr at rlcarr.com Thu Apr 30 16:03:46 2009 From: rlcarr at rlcarr.com (Rich Carreiro) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:03:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Town Meeting] Message from Town Webmaster Message-ID: FYI... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:53:22 -0400 From: Joan Roman Dear Town Meeting Members, It was a pleasure to meet and speak with so many of you last night. It was fun to personally meet with some of you who I?ve shared a ?virtual relationship? with over the past 2 years as my role as Web Content Manager for the Town of Arlington. I?m sending this email as a follow up to the postcards I handed out prior to Town Meeting about the Request/Answer Center, Reverse911, and Town of Arlington Notices. You may have picked a card up from the table in the back of the room. There were many members I didn?t get a chance to speak with or did so briefly. I hope now I can steal a bit more of your time to request your assistance in spreading the word on these important constituent services. This email also allows me to expand a bit on these 3 services, what they do, how they currently serve the community, and ultimately how residents can ?Get connected and stay connected to Town Hall.? Request/Answer Center at arlingtonma.gov This online customer service center allows residents to search an Answerbase of commonly asked questions, make a request for Town services, ask a Town related question, and the ability to track their Requests/Questions in their own account. Since its launch in February 2008, our Answers have been viewed over 86,000 times, 2,000 Requests have been made, yet only around 300 questions have been asked. We like to think residents are getting many of their Questions answered before having to call Town Hall or ask a Question through the system. We?re pleased with the results so far, and want to increase awareness of this service. Users can find the Request/Answer Center at arlingtonma.gov Reverse 911 The Town recently implemented a Reverse 911 system to alert residents, via telephone, in the event of an emergency or to pass along a message of importance. Due to the multiple options for telecommunications not all residents are in the system. The Reverse 911 system collects some land line phone numbers, but does not collect cell and internet phone providers. To complete our database of phone numbers we need your help. If you have already received an automated phone message from the Town you are already in the system. If not, we strongly advise you to register at least one phone number. You are able to register multiple phone numbers. Users can learn more and register online at arlingtonma.gov/reverse911 Town of Arlington Notices This email distribution list sends timely news and notices from Town Hall. Notices include public health and public works alerts, election information, office closings, trash & recycling alerts, and special Town related events. Many of you are on this list already. If you are not, subscribe now. We currently have 1,760 subscribers. This number has doubled in the last year by ?creative? marketing throughout the Town site, annual Town Census, within the email Notices themselves, and word of mouth. However, we need to pull in more residents and with your help I know we can do that. If each Town Meeting member got 1 new subscriber to join, that would be about 250 new subscribers or 15% increase. If you got 2, that would be a 30% increase, 3 new subscribers and we?re looking at a 45% increase. You see where I?m going with this. The power of many to spread the word is real and I hope you reach out to your constituents to help increase our subscription numbers. Residents can subscribe at arlingtonma.gov/subscriber Last night, I learned many of you have availed yourself of these services and have helped spread the word. For that, I thank you. Your support got us to the success we are enjoying today. Your continued support and the addition of more advocates spreading the word on these services is vital in keeping Arlington residents informed and connected to Town Hall. Thanks for your time and continued commitment to Town service. If you have additional questions, please don?t hesitate to ask, or check the Request/Answer Center, it may have already been answered. Best, Joan Roman Web Content Manager Town of Arlington, MA Arlingtonma.gov jroman at town.arlington.ma.us From rlcarr at rlcarr.com Thu Apr 30 19:31:24 2009 From: rlcarr at rlcarr.com (Rich Carreiro) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:31:24 -0400 Subject: [Town Meeting] Mailing from Maddy Webster/Article 16 opponents Message-ID: <49FA34CC.3060009@rlcarr.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:04:48 -0400 From: Maddy Webster To: Rich Carreiro Subject: Letter re Article 16 to be emailed to Town Meeting members - Thanks Hello Rich - I spoke to John Leone last night after the Town Meeting about speaking and putting a letter on Town Meeting members chairs. He said he had not seen the letter re. Article 16 that you sent out on my behalf on April 21 and asked that it be resent. I know that others did see it. 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