Should the Town Council impose a one-year residency requirement for those seeking elected office in the town?
Council members may answer that question Tuesday at their monthly meeting.
Earlier this year, the council asked town attorney John Randolph to research the issue and bring it back for consideration at its June meeting.
Currently, all registered town voters are eligible to run for council, but there are no other residency requirements.
Town code permits candidates for the office of mayor or Town Council to qualify by: Being nominated by an elector of the Town, and seconded by not more than three (3) electors, at the Town Caucus to be held on the second Tuesday of January of each year; and (b) Being endorsed by petition signed by at least twenty-five (25) electors, filed with the Town Council no later than 5:00 p.m. on the day following the Town Caucus.
Monroe County property owners have until Thursday, June 3, to appeal proposed changes to the federal flood maps, which are used to determine the minimum elevation needed for construction and
Key West has filed its appeal of proposed new federal flood maps that, if approved, would significantly increase flood insurance rates for residential and commercial property owners.
The Falmouth Coastal Resiliency Action Committee will present the final report on the climate change vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning project to the Falmouth Select Board on June 21.
The committee has been working in with the Woods Hole Group and other town entities on the project over the last few years. The committee has recently been reviewing and expanding upon the draft of the feasibility study that was presented to the select board in October of 2020.
According to its verbiage, âone of the primary objectives of the project is to raise public awareness of the escalating flood risks posed by sea-level rise and storm surge, as well as present strategies available to the Town to adapt to these changes over time.â