Norm Hills’ terms on both the Select Board and Planning Board will be up at Marion’s annual Town Election on Friday, May 12.
On Monday, Marion announced that nomination papers are now available at Town Clerk Lissa Magauran’s office. Papers are due by Monday, March 20, for the signature-certification process.
According to the press release, 30 rather than 20 signatures are required to get on the ballot for elected office, based on Massachusetts General Law Chapter 53, Section 6.
The two seats occupied by Hills, the Planning Board chairman who is also the workhorse of the Bylaw Codification subcommittee, are among 12 open seats this year on seven different boards/committees in Marion.
In addition to Hills, the terms of Planning Board members Chris Collings and Eileen Marum expire in May.
Albin Johnson (Board of Health) and Peter Winters (Board of Assessors) will require election to seats they hold by appointment, but neither is a stranger to the process. Johnson is a founding member of the Board of Health, albeit retired until recently, and Winters is an experienced member of the town’s Finance Committee.
Pat DeCosta’s term with the Assessors is also up this year.
Nichole Nye-McGaffey is the lone Marion School Committee member whose term is up in 2023, and Margaret McSweeny’s term on the Old Rochester Regional School Committee will also expire this year.
Three seats will be open on the town’s Open Space Acquisition Commission, as Amanda Chace and Mark Sylvia will require reelection to continue past May 12, and there is also a vacancy on MOSAC.
For more information, call the town clerk at 508-748-3502 or email lmagauran@marionma.gov.
By Mick Colageo