Town Meeting Start Time to move from 7:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Charter amendment signed into law as Chapter 358 of the Acts of 2002

Fall back. Spring forward. Town meeting back.

Daylight Savings Time ended Sunday October 27, 2002 at 2 a.m., so don't forget to set your clocks back. Fall back.

Daylight Savings Time then returns on Sunday, April 6, 2003 at 2 a.m. Spring forward.

Then on Monday, April 7, 2003 Annual Town Meeting will convene at 6 p.m., rather than 7:30 p.m. Town Meeting back.

April 1, 2002 Annual Town Meeting voters overwhelmingly approved the filing of a home rule petition for special state legislation to amend Provincetown's charter so that sessions of our open town meeting begin at 6 p.m., rather than 7:30 p.m. The resulting bill was enacted as Chapter 358 of the Acts of 2002. It was signed by Acting Governor Jane Swift on October 30, 2002, following final enactment by the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the State Senate.

The Town Meeting article, submitted by the Council on Aging, and approved by the voters at town meeting, amends Section 2-3-1 of Provincetown's Charter by deleting "7:30 p.m." and substituting "6:00 p.m." as the start time for Provincetown's annual town meeting.

The April 2002 Town Meeting discussion indicated that it would be the voters' intent that, with an earlier start time, sessions of Town Meeting would also end sooner each evening. This year, Town Meeting lasted four nights, going from 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. each night. In May of 2001, the Board of Selectmen moved back the start time of its meetings from 7 p.m. to 6 p.m., which has allowed its meetings to end earlier in the evening.

Provincetown Charter