Daily Archives: March 19, 2014

I want to thank all the Bow voters who turned out for the first town meeting. The attendance was phenomenal. I hope our message was heard loud and clear. Unfortunately Bow has a history of a small group who will blatantly disregard the overwhelming will of the voter and request reconsideration. For this reason it is critical that we all show up at the March 24 town meeting to ensure that our votes are not stolen. There will be a vote to restrict reconsideration.

I also want to apologize to the people who took the time to go to the meeting but had to leave even before the first vote because it was getting too late – not to mention the people who had to leave right after the first vote. I asked you to come to the meeting, and I didn’t fight hard enough to ensure that you were comfortable enough to stay for all of the votes.

To make sure that doesn’t happen again, I will make a motion that the moderator follows his own rules that are published in our town report, unless those rules are changed to move the meeting in a more efficient way. A person’s voice and right to vote is far more important than someone’s inability to put together a short, concise, informative presentation.

I hope you will second and support my motion and any other motion I might make to move the meeting along.

Van Mosher
Bow

Please Attend on March 24

Bow voters, please make the effort to attend the important conclusion of our 2014 town meeting. We will need your votes to ensure the implementation of some of your earlier votes from the first meeting. After hours of deliberation, the meeting was put in recess, to be continued on March 24 at 7 p.m. in the Bow High School auditorium.

Moderator Peter Imse rightly complimented everyone in the room for a great turnout last Thursday. The interest shown in the issues at hand is a testament to the democratic principles and spirit of self-government in our nation, state and town.

Fellow Bow citizens, this is essential to avoiding another round of substantial bonded indebtedness at a time when the capacity to pay for it, our base revenue, has been significantly reduced. Let’s not become long-term indentured servants to the will of a privileged few this time.

Jim Hoffman
Bow