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Other contested elections included the School Committee, Town Meeting Members and Town Assessor. (Dan Libon/Patch)
NEEDHAM, MA The Annual Town Election was held Tuesday, April 13. Get caught up here with who will be serving in office and their policy initiatives.
Contested Elections
Select Board: Moe Handel, four-term Select Board member and three-time chair, lost his reelection Tuesday when he came in third, with 2,581 votes.
Lakshmi Balachandra, a professor at Babson College, came in first with 3,818 votes. Marcus Nelson, a youth and community organizer, placed second with 3,668 votes. Nelson and Balachandra are the first people of color to ever serve on Needham s Select Board.
Needham prepares for a three day outdoor Town Meeting in early-May
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The Select Board voted Tuesday to schedule the 2021 annual Town Meeting for Monday, May 3, at 5 p.m.; with a more substantive special Town Meeting held the Saturday and Sunday prior at 1 p.m.
Town Manager Kate Fitzpatrick outlined the schedule and venue recommendation after consulting with Moderator Michael Fee.
“What we proposed is to have only the articles in the annual Town Meeting Warrant that by law must be in an annual [Town Meeting Warrant],” Fitzpatrick said Tuesday, via Zoom.
“The companion” to the annual Town Meeting is a special Town Meeting, the town manager continued, which is scheduled for May 1 and May 2 at 1 p.m., and will feature a Warrant that includes “most of the articles” included in a draft discussed by the board earlier this month.