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Proposed Town Meeting end time voted down By Christopher Roberson
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y a vote of 57-109, residents rejected Article 7 during the Fall Town Meeting, which requested that Town Meeting sessions run no later than 10:30 p.m. During the Oct. 15 meeting, Jack Adelson of the Town Meeting Study Committee said 1,300 residents responded to the committee’s survey at the beginning of the year. Two-thirds of the respondents indicated that Town Meeting should not be in session beyond 10:30 p.m. “A number of towns have adopted this,” said Adelson. However, resident Patricia Campbell spoke in opposition, having attended 52 Lynnfield Town Meetings since 1992. “This article leaves us open to hurrying the meeting,” she said. “Let’s not make
this meeting a rubber stamp; please vote no on Article 7.” In addition, Town Administrator Robert Dolan said each session costs the town approximately $7,000. The vote on Article 6 passed it, 110-58. The article asked that speakers from the floor limit their comments to three minutes and speak “no more than twice upon any question.” However, one resident rose in staunch opposition. “This bothers me a lot; it’s too stifling,” she said. “I find it undemocratic.” Article 5, which asked that the primary presentation for any given motion be limited to 10 minutes, passed by a much wider margin of 151-14. Article 8 asked that no article be reconsidered after a final vote unless the town moderator determines that there
has been a “significant error, omission or change in circumstances.” “We’re just trying to eliminate the confusing and convoluted aspect of what we have now,” said Adelson. However, Campbell made a motion to remove the language “in the discretion of the moderator” from the article. “It makes the maker of the motion explain why they’re moving for reconsideration,” she said. In response, Adelson said that under the rules governing Town Meeting, “the moderator has a lot of power.” “I think, in Lynnfield, the moderator has been pretty generous,” he said. Campbell’s motion to amend the article was subsequently voted down, 41-122, and Article 8 was passed, 112-43.
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SUITED UP: Firefighter Andrew Lyons proudly holds his two-year-old son Leo at the Peabody Fire Department’s Open House on October 13. See more photo highlights on page 5. (Advocate photo by Christopher Roberson)
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fter two nights of interviewing five candidates vying to be the town’s next fire chief, the Fire Chief Screening Committee could only suggest Deputy Chief Glenn Davis to the Board of Selectmen. “We’re all convinced that he was far and away the best candidate and someone capable of providing the leadership that the department needs,” said Board of Selectmen Chairman Richard Dalton, who also chaired the Screening Committee. In addition to Dalton, other members of the Screening Committee were Town Administrator Robert Dolan, Police Chief David Breen, Finance Committee Vice Chairman Thomas Kayola, former Fire Chief Robert MacKendrick and Fire Lt. Kevin Mutti, who represented the Lynnfield Firefighters Union. According to his LinkedIn page, Davis has been with the Fire Department for the past 28 years and has served as the deputy chief since 2012. In addition to fighting fires, Davis was the chief therapist
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for the Hallmark Health CHEM Center for MRI from 1991 to 2006 and was the manager of Radiation Oncology for Hallmark Health from 2006 to 2011. Davis is a 1980 graduate of the Salem Hospital School of Radiologic Technology. The selectmen will officially vote on Davis’s promotion during their Nov. 5 meeting. The need for a new chief came after the board voted unanimously on July 18 not to renew the contract of current Chief Mark Tetreault, which is set to expire at the end of the year.