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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 Public Health hosts vaccination clinic for residents of town s housing authority
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One-hundred Needham Housing Authority residents received their first COVID-19 vaccination Saturday during a clinic hosted by Needham Public Health.
Around 455 Needham residents live in housing managed by the NHA, where rent is paid with varying levels of assistance from either the state or federal government.
According to Needham Public Health Director Timothy McDonald, the clinic employed Russian, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish translators to assist some residents.
McDonald said the town originally requested 200 doses from the state s COVID-19 Response Command Center for the Needham clinic, but in an email sent on Monday, he reported his department only received 100 shots to distribute to NHA residents.
Town of Needham
The following is a Town of Needham press release.
Needham Town Manager Kate Fitzpatrick announced Wednesday that funding is still available to help Needham residents who have lost income due to COVID-19 make rent payments in the coming months.
Approved by Special Town Meeting in October, the Emergency Rental Assistance Program includes $120,000 from the Community Housing Reserve and the Community Preservation Fund, both overseen by the Community Preservation Committee.
The program is also funded through a grant of $50,000 from the Massachusetts Covid-19 Relief Fund, secured for Needham by the Foundation for MetroWest.
“The rental assistance program offered by the Town of Needham has been incredibly helpful as the pandemic continues to create financial challenges for people like me who work in the service industry,” said Kimberly Collyer, a Needham resident who was laid off from her job as a bartender due to Covid in March.