Town Meeting:Adjournment

For many years, the length of the Warrant has precluded the completion of Town Meeting business in a single evening. Customarily, the Selectmen recommend dates and times of successive sessions. A motion to adjourn, which is debatable, is usually made as close to 10:45pm as possible without interrupting action on an article. Thus no article for which prolonged debate is anticipated should be brought up after 10:00pm and no article after 10:15pm. The motion is usually made by a Selectman, though any member may move adjournment. Occasionally, the members choose to remain long enough to take up one or two more articles.

Quorum is not required for adjournment, but is required for a dissolution vote.