Municipal Business at Boys State

In earlier posts below, you saw video, photos, and live blog of the Candidates Forum. That's a very spirited part of the program, and one which students seem to enjoy very much. You might be able to tell as much. Boys Staters spend more time, though, in their municipal meetings, electing local officials, writing budgets, and discussing various municipal obstacles set in front of them. You can get a feel for some of these issues by going to the Main Resource Page of the Boys State website, and clicking on your Boys Stater's city or town and opening the several "scenario" and "issue" tabs.

For example, if you click on the T-1 page and open the "Municipal Scenario" tab, you will read how T-1 is the home to "Williston College," and must decide whether or not T-1 favors expansion of the college and all of the attendant issues and benefits that flow from such an expansion.

There are 16 cities and towns, and it will take a while to get video of them all posted. Also, we have a few separate clips of some of the negotiating sessions between certain cities and towns. We'll include those also, but uploading these things will have to be done around today's Boys State business. Lastly, some of these cities and towns do get flustered in their negotiations. You'll hear the question: "Can they DO that?" uttered by one T-7 Selectman. For them, we've established Superior, Appeals, and Supreme Judicial Courts of Boys State to which they may direct their grievances. If we have an opportunity to follow those grievances through the court process, we'll try to do that also.


N.B. - Unfortunately, we don't have anything clips yet for C-6, T-6, and T-8. Sorry.


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