Charter confusion: Weston town attorney access and budget transfers stir controversy

Charter confusion: Weston town attorney access and budget transfers stir controversy

Town charters are to municipalities what the state constitution is to state government, and the federal constitution is to Congress. These documents provide a framework for how government is supposed to work and establish limits on what’s allowable. But just as questions of interpreting the federal constitution have led to high-profile and high-emotion court cases about how certain phrases should be interpreted, so too can the wording of town ch…