Town Meeting
- May 2024 Annual Town Meeting Warrant Booklet
- March 2024 Special Town Meeting Warrant Booklet
- December 2023 Special Town Meeting Warrant Booklet
- May 2023 Annual Town Meeting Warrant Booklet
- December 2022 Special Town Meeting Warrant Booklet
- June 2022 Special Town Meeting Warrant Booklet
- May 2022 Annual Town Meeting Warrant Booklet
- December 2021 Special Town Meeting Warrant Booklet
- September 2021 Special Town Meeting Warrant Booklet
- May 2021 Annual Town Meeting Warrant Booklet
- March 2021 Special Town Meeting Warrant Booklet
- November 2020 Special Town Meeting Warrant Booklet
- June 2020 Annual Town Meeting Warrant Booklet
- Town Administrator's FY2020 Budget Book
A Town Meeting is both an event and an entity. As an event, it is a gathering of the town’s eligible voters, and is referred to as “the Town Meeting.” As an entity, it is the legislative body for towns in Massachusetts, and is referred to simply as “Town Meeting.”
The Town of Swampscott has a representative Town Meeting. In a representative Town Meeting, also called a limited Town Meeting, all of the town’s voters may vote for what are called Town Meeting Members. After the voters elect the Town Meeting Members, the Town Meeting Members act as the Town Meeting legislative body by conducting and voting on the business of Town Meeting.
Town Meeting decides three major things:
- It sets the salaries for the elected officials.
- It votes to appropriate money to run the town.
- It votes on the town’s local statutes, which are called by-laws.