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Warrant claims 22 articles, proposes $72.2M for fiscal year 2022
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Swampscott Town Moderator Michael McClung will virtually gavel the 2021 Town Meeting to order over Zoom on Monday evening, May 17 at 7 p.m.
Elected Town Meeting representatives (of which Town Clerk Susan Duplin says there are 324) will meet on subsequent nights until they vote on the 22 articles outlined in the 2021, 56-page town warrant.
The Swampscott Board of Selectmen closed the warrant on Monday, May 3 - just two weeks before the big meeting convenes.
The warrant constitutes Town Meeting’s official agenda. Articles printed on the warrant represent agenda items, each to be voted on by a show of Town Meeting representatives’ votes over Zoom.
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SWAMPSCOTT, MA Swampscott voters will head to the polls Tuesday for the 2021 Town Election.
Along with town meeting members, there are contested races for Select Board, Town Moderator, Board of Health and School Committee.
All voting will take place at the Swampscott High School cafeteria this year because of the coronavirus health crisis. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Subscribe We take COVID-19 social distancing precautions very seriously, Swampscott town clerk Susan Duplin said. During early voting and on Election Day, we will have the following protocols in place: All voting booths will be placed at least 6-feet apart and continuously disinfected.
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If they have not already cast ballots, Swampscott voters get to weigh in on candidates running in the Tuesday, April 27 on Election Day.
Election Day will arrive after Swampscott Town Clerk Susan Duplin offered a solid week of in-person voting inside Swampscott Town Hall, 22 Monument Ave. – which wraps up on Friday from 8 a.m. to noon.
Absentee ballots must be dropped off at the town hall before 8 p.m. on Election Day. Early-voting ad absentee ballots can be turned in either to Duplin’s town-hall office or dropped in a secure 24-hour ballot box, checked and emptied frequently throughout the day, outside town hall’s main entrance.
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The Swampscott Reporter has received more than one unconfirmed news tip that the town s director of human resources position may be vacant for a second time in less than a year.
On Wednesday, March 31, the Reporter emailed Town Administrator Sean Fitzgerald and Swampscott Public Schools Superintendent Pamela Angelakis with questions regarding the employment status of Ricardo Flores, the town’s new human resources director, who has been on the job since December. As of press time, The Reporter had not received a response from either Fitzgerald or Angelakis.
Meanwhile, the Reporter could not reach Flores for comment.