West Stockbridge, Massachusetts held its annual town meeting Monday night.
Under light rain, most of the 35-article town meeting warrant passed without much discussion at the socially distanced gathering in the town hall parking lot. Using a low wattage FM broadcast, town leadership addressed attendees from the community of around 1,200 through their car radios. But article 12, which would have expanded the town’s authority around licensing the buying and selling of new and used cars, attracted some static.
“Before the amendment, the license, the select board had the right to go in and take the license off the wall without a hearing or anything, said William Kie . Now that s changed, but two weeks is not sufficient time to correct anything that might be perceived as a violation. The whole law, I feel, is a violation of my rights as a taxpayer in the town and violates my constitutional rights.”