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| Town Clerk: elected or appointed? |
| By Amy MacKinnon |
| Wednesday, February 08, 2012 09:00 AM |
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Duxbury selectmen placed an article on the Town Warrant that would change the position of Town Clerk from elected to appointed if a majority of residents approve it at the March 10 Town Meeting and then pass it at a subsequent election. “The issue of having the Town Clerk’s position elected versus appointed is that now the Town Clerk’s position is a fulltime job where it used to be part-time,” said Shawn Dahlen, chairman of the Board of Selectmen. “It now requires a great deal of expertise with technology and the fact that the Town Clerk has to go to Town Meeting to ask for a raise is kind of archaic.”
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