How to Post a Meeting
Agenda Guidelines
- Official postings must include a list of topics to be discussed
- If you use the terms Old Business/New Business, you must list the items to be discussed
under each of those headings - Agendas must be accessible. Contact the Town Clerk for accessibility guidelines.
- Agenda filename must include committee name (or abbreviation) and date in yyyy-mm-dd format (for example, 2026-01-08 sb agenda.docx)
- Agendas must be provided as a word document
Deadlines for posting requests
- Don’t wait until the last minute to post. Ideally, all meetings for the upcoming week should be posted by the end of this week
- 48 Hour notice does not include Saturdays, Sundays or legal holidays
- Monday and Tuesday meetings – 11:30am on the previous Thursday
- Wednesday and Thursday meetings – 48 hours prior to the meeting during Town Clerk office hours. If there is a Monday holiday the following Tuesday’s agenda must be posted on the previous Thursday.
How to post
- All meeting agendas must be posted by emailing the Word file to the Town Clerk
- It is your responsibility to verify that the meeting has been posted
- If scheduling several meetings into the future, please remember:
- until a list of topics is included the meeting is not officially posted
- the Chairperson is responsible for following up with topics of discussion
- You may update the list of topics within the 48-hour period if the new topic was not known to the Chairperson prior to the 48-hour posting deadline