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One-Article Special Town Meeting

By Kevin Rudden Staff Reporter/Columnist · September 25, 2019

The Board of Selectmen voted on September 9 to set a one-article Special Town Meeting to begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 2 in Upper Town Hall.

The sole article – requested by a petition signed by 255 registered voters –asks the town to petition the state legislature to amend the provisions for recalling elected town officials in Milford. Specifically, the changes would be:

• Reducing the number of valid signatures

required on a recall petition from 20 percent of registered voters to 10 percent, and

• Reducing the number of registered voters participating in a recall election from 25 percent to 15 percent.

Using the17,582 number of registered voters in Milford as of the August 21 date the petition was submitted, the requested changes would mean decreasing the number of signatures needed for

a valid recall petition from 3,516 to 1,758 and the number of voters participating in a recall election from 4,396 to 2,637.