Conroy: Town Must Vote for Selectmen Increase at Next Annual Town Election

State Rep. Tom Conroy announces committee’s revision to and approval of Sudbury’s petition to increase Board of Selectmen from 3 to 5 members.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following was submitted by State Rep. Tom Conroy.) Yesterday, the Joint Committee on Election Laws amended and approved H.4471, “An Act Amending Chapter 131 of the Acts of 1994 to Increase Board of Selectmen Membership in the Town of Sudbury.”  The Committee vote approving the revised bill occurred two days after the November 27 hearing on the bill, at which several Sudbury residents testified, many for and many against the bill.  The revised bill requires a ballot vote in Sudbury on whether to increase the board of selectmen from three members to five at the next regular annual town election, which will occur in March 2013. According to the revised bill, if a majority of voters favor the increase, an election for two …

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