ORlEANS ANNUAl TOwN REPORt FOR YEAR ... - Town Of Orleans

TOWN CLERKThe year 2007 started with a move from the trailers back to our new TownClerk’s office in the renovated Town Hall. Now that we are located “front andcenter” in the main entrance lobby, we are busier than ever greeting, assistingand directing the public as they enter our brand new facility. The Clerk’s officeposts meetings and schedules meeting rooms for Town boards, committees andcommissions. Posting the weekly meeting schedule on the Town’s website everyFriday makes it easier for the citizens to be aware of the upcoming committee,commissions and board meetings.In addition to our routine “public” activities of registering voters, conducting Townmeetings and elections, selling clamming permits, issuing dog licenses,registering and certifying birth, marriage and death records, issuing businesscertificates, raffle permits and gas storage tank permits, accepting U.S. passportapplications and serving as the switchboard and information center for Towngovernment, we also work behind the scenes in cataloging and preserving theongoing and historical records of the Town.Our new vault with compactable storage and climate control facilitate the properstorage and retrieval of these records as well as plenty of room. Funds from theCommunity Preservation Committee are enabling us to transfer our permanentrecords into archivally stable storage, whether boxes or bindings.The Annual and Special Town Meetings and Town Election were held in May,while a Special Town Meeting and Special Election were held in October. In May,to comply with the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), we introduced our new voterassist terminal, the Automark. The Automark is a ballot marking machine thatallows voters with disabilities and other special needs to mark a ballot privatelyand independently. Once marked, the ballot is inserted by the voter into the votetabulating machines with all the other ballots.I would like to extend a very big “thank you” to the Election Workers and theBoard of Registrars for their outstanding work in assisting our voters and helpingthe election process run so smoothly this year. A special thank you to myassistant, Kelly Darling for all her hard work.I hereby submit the following reports:1. Town MeetingsMay 7, 2007May 7, 2007October 22 & 29, 2007AnnualSpecial within the AnnualSpecial51