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IMPORTANT VOTER INFORMATION

Reminder: The DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY is
Tuesday, August 10, 2010.

Voting will take place at the Woodbury Senior/Community Center from 6 am - 8 pm.

Party changes from Unaffiliated to Republican/Democratic can be submitted by mail until August 5 and in person until August 9 at noon. The Woodbury Registrars will be in their office in the Shove Building on Tuesday, July 27, from 5 - 7 pm, in addition to the regular hours (Wednesdays from 8:30 am to 10:30 am), for party registrations.

Absentee ballots are scheduled to be available
on July 20, 2010 and are available at the
Town Clerk's Office.

If you know of a 17-year-old, who will be 18 years old prior to Nov 2, and eligible to vote on Nov 2, they may register and vote in the primary on Aug 10.

(NOTE: This rule is NEW in 2010.)

NEW!

GET VOTING REMINDERS via EMAIL!

The Woodbury Registrars of Voters are launching a new service to remind residents of upcoming elections. If you would like to receive an email notice of an election about a week before the vote, and one the day of the vote.

If you would like to be added to their list to receive these notices, send an email to the address below.

Beverly L. Deickler & Anne Cushman Schwaikert
Registrars of Voters
Town of Woodbury
P.O. Box 369
Woodbury, CT 06798-0369
Tel: 203-263-4750
Fax: 203-263-4755
Email: vr.woodbury@po.state.ct.us

Save the date!

Sunday, September 12
1 - 4 pm in Woodbury's Hollow Park

FREE FAMILY PICNIC!

Join the Woodbury and 32nd district DTCs in a FREE family picnic to kickoff the Fall campaign season. Candidates for local, state and federal offices have been invited to speak and to answer your questions. Delicious picnic fare will be served.

Check back here soon for further details.

Charter Revision Commission
Meeting Schedule

Click here for the meeting schedule for the Charter Revision Commission

[Note: The Aug. 5 and Aug. 19 CRC meetings have been cancelled due to "expected lack of quorum."]

The Charter Revision process is critical to the character and quality of YOUR town government. The Democratic Town Committee encourages you to stay abreast of the activities of the Charter Revision Commission as the Commission weighs potential changes to the Town Charter that will affect the way government works here in Woodbury.

Although the Commission has decided to remove the official mechanism for public comment by eliminating the Privilege of the Floor option from the public meetings, we encourage residents to attend, listen, and submit questions to the commission in writing. Minutes of all meetings are available on the Woodbury Town Website at http://www.woodburyct.org under "Agendas and Minutes" in the navigation bar.

Remember: Democracy is not a spectator sport.

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Welcome! Please visit frequently, to get information about upcoming events or to volunteer. Join us at our monthly DTC meetings, the first Thursday of each month, 7:30 PM at the Town Office Annex. We look forward to seeing you there!

— Lesa Peters, Town Committee Chair

Democratic Town Committee Proposes Amendment to Town Charter Section 1009.

The Woodbury Democratic Town Committee has submitted the proposed amendment (see below, with additions to existing Charter language indicated in red) to the Charter Revision Committee. In a letter accompanying the proposed amendment, DTC Chair Lesa Peters cited the importance of openness and transparency in local government as well as the need for unencumbered access by members of the public to the information necessary for them to participate actively in town governance.

Click here to read the letter which accompanied the proposed amendment.

Proposed amendment to Section 1009 of the Charter of the Town of Woodbury:

Section 1009. Public's Right to Know.

All Town officers and employees and all Town boards and commissions, whether established by this Charter or created by ordinance or as a special and temporary committee of the Board of Selectmen, and their members shall at a minimum conduct their meetings and perform their duties in accordance with the provisions of the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act. Notwithstanding other provisions of this Charter or of Section 1-200 et seq. of the Connecticut General Statutes, so long as the Town actively maintains a town website, all public agencies of the Town required by this Charter or Section 1-200 et seq. to make public postings or deposits of its meeting notices, agenda, and minutes shall post them on the Town’s website in addition to posting or depositing them in such other locations or offices as may be required by this Charter or Section 1-200 et seq. Each such website posting of a document shall conform to the applicable time limitations, if any, imposed by this Charter or Section 1-200 et seq. on other forms of the same public document.