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manuals for the Select Board and regulatory boards and commissions.

“Let’s write it down, let’s follow it to the best of our knowledge,” said School Committee Chair Sarah Fox who spoke in favor of Article 54, sponsored by the Marblehead group PowerUp, to create manuals. “It will help volunteerism in this town. The more people know what a board

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does, the more likely they will get involved.”

It took an extra 30 minutes to get the 300-resident quorum required to start the meeting.

Resident Dan Albert spoke first for his proposed Traffic Safety Committee, Article 49, which was approved. “It’s not the end of the fight for safer streets, it’s the beginning,” Albert said. “But it’s a critical first step.”

According to Town Planner Becky Cutting, this comes on top of an already existing traffic advisory committee overseen by the public safety departments and a Complete Streets Committee.

But in the lead-up to Town Meeting, Albert expressed his vision that the committee created by Article 49 would consolidate and replace those other committees, which he said