Staff Writer
Published: 6/28/2020 5:49:43 PM
SHUTESBURY — Voters approved a $6.6 million operating budget and a 32-article warrant during Town Meeting and elected in Rita Farrell to a three-year term on the Select Board on Saturday.
A total of 545 votes were cast out of the town’s 1,228 registered voters — a 44% turnout — according to unofficial election results posted on the town’s website.
Town Clerk Susie Mosher said that voters passed every warrant at the open-air Town Meeting held Saturday morning in the large field behind Town Hall, including a citizens petition to take $750,000 from free cash, the stabilization account or capital funds to pay down the $1.69 million in borrowing to pay for the town’s broadband network. One of the three zoning bylaws also was amended, Mosher said.
Farrell beat out Jeffrey R. Lacy for a seat on the town’s Select Board — the election’s only contested race — 353 to 184. The seat’s current holder, Elaine Puleo, did not run for reelection after being elected to a two-year position in 2018.
Farrell, who is co-chairwoman of the Finance Committee, has also served on the School, Recreation and Community Preservation committees. Interviewed Saturday, she said she was “thrilled” to have won a seat on the board.
“I think it’s an affirmation of my dedication to the town and my deep knowledge of town government administration and that the people of Shutesbury support their local government and schools,” Farrell said.
Lacy, a member of the Planning Board for the past 25 years and the Zoning Board of Appeals for the last 10, said he thought the election was “a great experience,” even though he lost.
“It was a fair contest between two sides,” Lacy said. “We articulated our positions on things in different ways … I think we had a very good message about affordable Shutesbury and I think they had a very good strategy.”
Other seats were up for grabs, such as positions on the Board of Health, Planning Board, School Committee and others. Full election results for specific positions can be found at shutesbury.org.
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