Brookline Town Meeting 2004: Discussion of the Warrant Articles

Here are the 25 Warrant Articles for the Annual Town Meeting. Also, here are the Town Meeting Members, which include 240 elected members and 8 at-large. The articles sure to generate the bulk of the discussion are #7 Underground Utilities, #11 on the cell tower (even though it recommends passing to a committee), and #21, a study to overhaul the 2-hour parking limit. I'm leaning against $7 for the cost. The Griggs Park Neighborhood Association is in favor of it. I'm willing to hear both sides. I thought I'd list all the amendments below, even though most don't need any debate. I've added some comments to them, but I really can't do justice to most of them, as I'm cramming here. Several of them simply pass a decision onto a committee. Feel free to comment on them or add your viewpoints (that's why I wrote this software). The Town Meeting commences in about 17 hours, but it could well go on to a second evening as it usually does.

Article 24: Name Judge Sumner Z. Kaplan Park -- YES

To see if the Town will rename the Town Park, designated as Lot 11, Block 73 in the Town Atlas, now known as the Coolidge Playground, located on Columbia Street, between Kenwood and Russell Streets, the “Judge Sumner Z. Kaplan Playground and Park”, or act on anything relative thereto.

I met Judge Kaplan at his grand-daughter's bat mitzvah, and I would be so honored to vote on this.