The Selectboard of the Town of Addison would like to clarify the recent mailings concerning the vote of the location of the clerk’s office and rescinding of the bond for the Town Hall renovation.

1. Both of these issues were brought to the board via citizen’s petitions. This was not a selectboard action.
2. The selectboard did not sanction any recent mailings for or against the vote, or the Town Hall Project. The Town Hall Open House flyer was paid by a grant.
3. The articles that appeared on the warning as depicted in the mailing were taken directly from petitions, per counsel.
4. The location of the town clerk’s office is a board decision per counsel, and not at the discretion of the voters, so we chose to make that an advisory vote to get a sense of the feeling of the voters.
5. The vote to rescind the bond was also reviewed by counsel.
6. The board has very little information regarding how the numbers were arrived at, and so this also was made an advisory vote. We know only what we were presented with from the petitioners.

Jeff Kauffman Sr.

Roger Waterman

Steve Torrey

Peter Briggs

(Rob Hunt was absent)

Addison selectboard