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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Good Morning Planning Friends and Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Let me set the scene…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">We have a new Planning Board member who has been sworn in and attended his first meeting last evening. There is an existing site plan application before the Board that has been
continued a number of times. Throughout the process there has been no testimony received from abutters or interested citizens, but there has been ample testimony provided by the applicant’s engineering and legal team.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">The Chair is convinced that since there was no “public input,” that the new member can vote on this application. Despite numerous attempts to explain why the new member is disqualified
from voting, the Chair is convinced otherwise. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">I understand that MGL Chapter 39, Section 23D deals sets the framework for voting disqualification for communities that have adopted the Mullin Rule. We have not adopted the Mullin
Rule. What is the statutory framework dealing with voting disqualification for municipal boards and commission in communities without the Mullin Rule?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Kristina
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"">Kristina Johnson, AICP<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Director of Planning &</span><i><span style="font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"">
</span></i><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Community Development</span><i><span style="font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy""><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Town of Hudson, MA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">President, Mass. Association of Planning Directors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Tel: 978-562-2989
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Cell: 857-939-3427<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Email: <a href="mailto:kjohnson@townofhudson.org">
<span style="color:windowtext">kjohnson@townofhudson.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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