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Precinct One's 18 Town Meeting Reps Missed A Combined 88 Votes This Spring
We'll be going precinct by precinct to see how Chelmsford's Town Meeting Reps voted during the 2013 Spring Town Meeting, starting today with Precinct 1.
The 2013 Spring Town Meeting ended earlier this month, and now the clock begins for the anticipated 2013 Fall Town Meeting coming in a few months.
But until then, we want to answer a question that many folks had, and still have: who voted for what, and who didn't vote at all?
We wanted to know too, so we took a look, and here's the answer, starting with Precinct 1 (pictured in purple).
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There were 41 roll call votes for Precinct 1's 18 Town Meeting Reps, meaning combined they had 738 combined votes, of which they missed 88 of them (8.8 percent).
Of those 738 votes, 509 were "yes", so we focused on the times they voted, "no", "abstain" or didn't vote at all.
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We've attached the FinCom Warrant book with more information on each of the warrant articles, and here's the key for the procedural votes in the grid below
Abbreviation Motion Adjourn Day 1: Motion to adjourn on Day 1 due to Special Election the next day. 7a Day 2: An amendment to reduce Article 7 FinCom Reserve Fund From $400,000 to $200,000 10a Day 2: An amendment on Article 10 to go through each line item in the FY '14 Capital Reserve Budget 18o Day 2: A motion to move Article 18 (Turf Fields) after Article 12 18q Day 2: The first call to question on Article 18 (just before Nick DeSilvio's son) 18q2 Day 2: The second call to question on Article 18 (just after Nick DeSilvio's son) 19q Day 3: Call to question on Article 19 (Energy Controls) 25a Day 4: Amendment to change a date in Article 25 (Marijuana Moratorium) 26d Day 4: Motion to delay Article 26 (Billboard Overlay District) to the Fall
You can check also out the roll call votes for focused on articles rather than people on the Town Website as well as on our Day One, Two, Three, and Four overviews, where you can also find the context for all the procedural votes.
First Name
Last Name
Voted No
Voted Abstain
Did Not Vote On
Joseph
Ready
7a,10,10a,26d,32,34,
Adjourn
3,5
Matthew
Hanson
7a,10,10a,18c1,19c,
25a,26,32,34
Karen
Kowalski
4,18c1,19c,26d,26,27,34
7a,10,10a
32
Laura
McGuigan
10,10a,18c1,19c,26d,32,34
Nancy
Araway
7a,10,10a,18o,25,26d,32,34,
Adjourn
Michael
Raisbeck
18o, 24, 25a,25,26d,34
10,10a,32,
Adjourn
Kathryn
Brough
7a,10,10a,26d,32,34
3,4,8,12,13,14,15,16,
18c1,18c2,18,25a,25,
Adjourn
Peggy
Dunn
7a,10,10a,18c1,26d,32,34
28
Cynthia
Kaplan
7a,10,10a,18c1,
19c,26d,32,34
Adjourn
Jon
Kurland
7a,10,10a,26d,32,34
Frances
McDougall
7a,10,10a,18c1,26d,32,34
Kathleen
Tubridy
10,10a,18c1,18c2,
19c,26d,32,34
Adjourn
5,6,27,28
Samuel
Chase
7a,10,10a,19c,32,34
Adjourn
Marian
Currier
32,34
5,6,7,7a,9,10,10a,11,
18c1,18c2,25a,25,26d
Patricia
Dzuris
7a,10,10a,26,32,34
25a
18c2, 20
Robert
Joyce
4,16,18c1, 18c2, 18, 19c,19c,26
18o, 22, 24,25a
Ann
McGuigan
7a,10,10a,26d,32,34
11,18o,18c2
James
Pinder
16,17,19c,20,26d,27
7a,18,25a,25
Adjourn
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