Annual Town Meeting - Monday, June 22, 2020 at 7:30 PM at Berlin Memorial School, 34 South Street, Berlin, MA 01503

Outdoors this year! See details within. Raindate if needed: Wed June 24th
File photo of a Berlin Annual Town Meeting (Marty Miller photo)
File photo of a Berlin Annual Town Meeting (Marty Miller photo)
Event Date: 
Monday, June 22, 2020 - 7:30pm to 11:59pm

April 6, 2020:  REVISED NOTICE OF:

  • 2020 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING and
  • 2020 ANNUAL TOWN ELECTION

 

The Berlin Board of Selectmen has hereby rescheduled the dates for the 2020:

 

Annual Town Meeting 

Monday, June 22 at 7:30 p.m.  (RAINDATE IF NEEDED:  Wednesday, June 24 at 7:30 p.m.)

Berlin Memorial School

34 South Street, Berlin, MA

and the 

Annual Town Election

Monday, June 29, 2020 from 12:00 Noon to 4:00 p.m.

Lower level, Room 114, Berlin Town Office Building

23 Linden Street, Berlin, MA

 

 

Voted unanimously on April 6, 2020

 

BERLIN BOARD OF SELECTMEN

 

Christine Keefe         Lisa Wysocki             Margaret Stone

 

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Notes:   The warrant for the 2020 Annual Town Meeting has closed (Feb. 18, 2020).

Annual Town Meeting was originally scheduled for May 4, 2020.

Annual Town Election was originally scheduled for May 11, 2020.

 

This action has been taken in light of the:

< >World Health Organization’s naming COVID-19 as a pandemic (Mar. 11, 2020);Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s: (1) Emergency Declaration (Mar. 10, 2020) and (2) Executive Order barring gatherings in excess of ten (10) people (Mar. 23, 2020);Joint Declaration of Emergency for the Town of Berlin, retroactive to Mar. 10, 2020, by votes of: (1) Board of Health, Mar. 17, 2020; and (2) Board of Selectmen, Mar. 23, 2020; andStatutory power reserved for the Berlin Board of Selectmen to extend the date for Annual Town Meeting, but in no event later than June 30th (Mass. Gen. Law Ch. 39, Sec. 9).

Specific information about this year's processes online here: 

Voter Guidance for both 2020 Annual: Town Meeting & Town Election