What SB-2 offers Meredith is straight forward and simple

www.Laconiadailysun.com     April 8th, 2008

To the editor, Mr. Peter Miller promises to study the hybrid “charter” forms of government (allowed to be adopted by towns and cities as set forth in the state Constitution) and share his findings from time to time. What information he will be presenting was already presented in The Laconia Daily Sun on March 24,

2008. The restructuring of local government is stated in state law Title III Chapter 49-B. The forms of government allowed to be adopted are: 1. town council, 2. town council with official ballot, 3. representative town meeting, 4. budgetary town meeting and 5. official ballot town meeting. It was spelled out what they were, and that before any could be voted on by the people the new charter as construed by the charter commission must be reviewed and approved by the Secretary of State, Attorney General and commissioner of the Department of Revenue Administration. This process takes at least three years after it is first initiated, and who knows how twisted the meanings written between the lines. What SB-2 offers is rather straight forward and simple, the residents of Meredith will be regaining the right to cast a ballot in deciding articles on the warrant. All the Statutes — RSA’s— are available at the state’s website. Mr. Peter Miller needs to study more that the state statutes, he needs to study history. He has a tendency to construe and present as fact. An instance is his statement on February 14 that Town Meeting is “our direct link to the America that was conceived and created by the architects of our constitution,...” FACT: Town Meeting existed long before any thought of separation from England. Fact is that in Exeter on Jan. 5, 1776 the people of New Hampshire in Assembly established a Congress and voted to take up Civil Government thus establishing a Constitution (before any other colony, state or nation). The Congress then went on to detail the form of government and its Bill of Rights and statutes which was sent out to the people to be voted on and amended. It was at Town Meetings throughout this State that the details of it were raised and voted on three times before final approval in 1783. It has been amended many times there after. So it shall be interesting to read from time to time what he has found as the facts are in the statutes which we can all find and in which nothing is hidden between the lines or inferred somehow by some other statute. It is by the twisted logic of inference of what is or was meant that those who would control our lives, rights and freedom prevail upon us. Mr. Peter Miller should study SB-2; find the good in it if he is so consumed with what is good for us. But you know that will not be, he will reference various (non-partisan most likely) groups, findings of negativity in any SB-2  community, and all the

achievements of other hybrid forms of local government he can to convince us to keep the form of government we have, instead of allowing all registered voters to vote because that would be the worst thing of all.

G. W. Brooks

Meredith