Clift v. City of South Burlington

¶ 1. Petitioners are a group of South Burlington voters who signed a petition requesting that the City of South Burlington add an advisory article to its 2005 town-meeting warning. The City refused because the article did not relate to “city business.” Petitioners filed a complaint in Chittenden Superior Court, claiming that the South Burlington City Council was required by law to include the article in the warning. The superior court granted summary judgment to the City and we now affirm.

¶ 2. Petitioners and other South Burlington residents, totaling more than five percent of city voters,…