Annual Town Meeting.The Annual Town Meeting for the transaction of business shall be held on the evening of the fourth Monday of April at 7:30 p.m., or at such other time and date as the Board of Selectmen may determine in issuing the Annual Town Meeting Warrant, commencing in the year 2003 and the annual meeting for election of officers shall be held on the first Tuesday of April at 7:00 a.m. and shall close at 8:00 p.m., commencing in the year 1987.Posting of warrant.A town meeting shall, unless a different time or method is prescribed by law, be called by posting an attested copy of the warrant calling the same at the Town Hall, at the Town Clerk's office, at the Post Office and at eight other public places in the town at the discretion of the officer serving the warrant.Procedure.The rules of parliamentary procedure, as established by practice in this town, shall govern town meetings, but no parliamentary motion shall be used for the purpose of shutting off debate on any question until the meeting has had a reasonable opportunity of hearing both sides of that question.Roberts Rules of Order Revised shall be used as the rules of procedure in town meetings.Appointment of committees.The method of appointing town committees and their number shall be left to the decision of the meeting at which they are proposed, except as otherwise provided by statute or the bylaws of the town.Reconsideration.No article in the warrant shall be again taken into consideration after having been disposed of, unless ordered by a vote of a majority of the voters present and voting.A motion to reconsider must be made at the same or the next immediate meeting that the Article is considered, the reconsideration to be taken up at the end of the warrant.Petition for rezoning.Any person presenting a petition to a Special or Annual Town Meeting for rezoning of an area shall make available to the town meeting members, through the offices of the Town Clerk and Town Engineer, copies of a sketch or plan of the area involved, the initial sketch or plan to be furnished by the petitioner.Quorum.The presence of 126 voters at a town meeting for the transaction of business shall be required to constitute a quorum, except for a motion to adjourn, for which no quorum shall be required.Reports.The Board of Public Welfare, Assessors, School Committee, Police Department, Fire Department, Highway Surveyor, Board of Health, Town Clerk, Tax Collector, Town Treasurer, Town Accountant and other boards and officers making reports shall deliver to the Selectmen their annual report prior to the 15th day of January in each year. The Selectmen shall cause these reports, together with their own report and a list of town officers and other matters usually published, to be printed and distributed to each town meeting member and department head, together with the Finance Committee report, and an additional number of copies shall be made available to the taxpayers of Randolph and other interested parties by calling at the Randolph Police Station. The Town Treasurer shall annually publish in the Annual Town Report the salaries and overtime pay of all full- time and part-time elected and appointed town employees.Articles for consideration.All articles for insertion in the Annual Town Meeting warrant shall be submitted to the Board of Selectmen not later than January 15, and the complete warrant shall be submitted to the Finance Committee not later than January 25.At the conclusion of each article inserted for any Annual or Special Town Meeting, the following ending, "as petitioned for by" and the name of the petitioner shall be included in the article.The maker of any article requesting any change or deletion or addition to an existing bylaw or adoption of any existing state statute must furnish to the town meeting, either by written handout at the town meeting or in the written warrant, a copy of that portion of the law to which the amendment is being made. Such portions must be sufficient to make clear the intent of the proposed change.Recording of proceedings; transcripts.At the Annual Town Meeting a stenotypist will take a recording of the entire proceedings and furnish transcripts thereof to the Town Clerk and other town officials.At all Special Town Meetings a stenotypist will take a recording of the entire proceedings and furnish transcripts thereof to the Town Clerk.Declaration of two-thirds vote; challenge.Whenever a two-thirds vote is required by statute, such vote may be declared as such by the Moderator without a count and be recorded as such by the Clerk upon such declaration; provided, however, that seven or more members of a Town Meeting may challenge such declaration, as provided for by MGL c. 39, § 15, at which time a count shall be held.