Meeting schedules for the Selectmen, School Committee and Finance Committee can be found on town websites. The main town website is http://www.town.chatham.ma.us/Public_Documents/index It contains a great deal of information. It has schedules of meetings and lists the names of people serving on town committees and public officials, except for the School Committee and the Superintendent: Their names and schedule can be found on the separate website http://www.chatham.k12.ma.us/

Also online at the main town website, anyone can sign up to be emailed the agenda for each Board of Selectmen’s meeting.

Here are the usual meeting schedules as they now stand:

Board of Selectmen, weekly, Tuesdays at 4 p.m., Town Hall
The Board will be scheduling special extra meetings on town spending in these tough times. The first is tomorrow, Tuesday, February 4, 1 to 3 p.m., Town Hall, Channel 18

School Committee
First Wednesday of each month at 7:00 P.M.
Elizabeth Reynard Library
Chatham Middle/High Schools
425 Crowell Road 02633
February 4, 2009
March 4, 2009
April 1, 2009
May 6, 2009

School Committee Policy Meetings
5:00 P.M. Superintendent’s Conference Room
Next on Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Finance Committee, Thursdays, 7 p.m., Town Hall, Channel 18.

Channel 18 broadcasts of the meeting of the Board of Selectmen and the Finance Committee are posted on the town websites promptly after each meeting and can be watched on an "On Demand" basis through the town website.

Because of the changing financial situation and the concern about holding the line on spending, additional special sessions are likely to be scheduled.

Taxpayer participation can make a difference. Show up, listen, ask questions, give views and be heard.