Jericho Town Meeting Reimagined Update - September 2, 2025

JERICHO’S 2025-2026 TOWN BUDGET & BALLOT PROCESS – THE KICK-OFF IS COMING!

The Town Meeting Reimagined Taskforce is setting in motion publicity and preparations for the upcoming Kick-off meeting to the budget and ballot items you will eventually see on the ballot March 3, 2025. All residents should soon receive a postcard announcing the meeting. In upcoming Front Porch Forums we’ll offer coaching, questions to prompt your thinking, examples of past public questions, and other tidbits.

As yet another summary of how we got here: the voters present at Town Meeting, March 2024, approved an article requiring the town to adopt all budget articles and public questions by Australian Ballot and instructing the Selectboard to hold a hybrid format review to allow citizens to amend the draft budget to be presented for the Australian Ballot vote.

A Taskforce was formed to design a process that lives up to the intent of those 2024 articles. With support of the Selectboard, the Town Meeting Reimagined Taskforce designed and implemented a three-step process that culminated in the Australian Ballot vote in March, 2025.

Learning from what worked and what needed improvement, the Taskforce has set in motion a similar three-step process for the FY2027 Jericho Budget and public questions.

Much of what we learned in last year’s first time through will be reflected in the advance coaching and preparation materials for the upcoming 3-step process. Stay tuned!