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Article: PLAN TO SHRINK TOWN MEETING UP FOR VOTE

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October 3, 2004
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BRAINTREE--- The longest-serving Braintree Town Meeting member believes it's time for some of his colleagues to retire.

William Dykstra is supporting a plan to reduce the size of the town's representative body from 252 to 144. The plan is to go before Special Town Meeting tomorrow night.

Dykstra has been a Town Meeting member for 42 years, having been first elected shortly after moving to Braintree in 1961. He opposed the proposal to adopt a mayoral form of government that was defeated by voters in April.

But the push for a mayoral system reflects a widespread dissatisfaction with the way Town Meeting functions, he said. When

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