Town Meeting is Brookline s Legislative arm of government. It consists of 255 elected Town Meeting Members plus the members of the Select Board, and any state representative or state senator who resides in Brookline. In addition, the Town Moderator, who presides over Town Meeting, and the elected Town Clerk, who acts as secretary, are voting members. The 255 membersare elected by precinct, with 15 members elected from each of the Town s seventeen precincts. The members are elected for staggered, 3-year terms so that 5 members are elected from each precinct each year in the May annual town election. Depending on vacancies some precincts will have more members to be elected.Town Meeting is responsible for passing a balanced annual town budget and enacts all town by-laws. An Annual Town Meeting is held in the spring to enact the following year s budget, plus whatever other matters are placed on the Town Meeting Warrant, either by the Select Board or by citizen petition. The Annual Town Meeting is usually held the last week in May or the first week in June. A Special Town Meeting is held each fall, usually in November, to deal with any budget changes, zoning by-law amendments or other matters placed on the warrant. (No salary; no health insurance.)* following a candidate name indicates an Incumbent.For Incumbent Town Meeting Races, Attendance Record for last three years is shown.(NP) shows for all candidates and races. The Brookline Municipal Election is Non-Partisan.
Campaign Phone
617-233-1238
Attendance
38 of 38
C. Scott Ananian writes code for the Wikimedia Foundation, the custodian of Wikipedia and other collaboratively-edited educational projects. Scott received his PhD from MIT in 2007 and has the years since working on systems which allow kids to discover, share, and learn. Since being elected TMM in 2015, he’s introduced warrant articles on Electric Vehicle infrastructure and police oversight and helped draft the Town’s Sanctuary policy as a CDICR subcommittee member. He wrote two warrant articles on Ranked Choice Voting and served as chair of the Town's RCV committee. He is a member of the Site Council for the Driscoll School and was an active member of the campaign in support of the Pierce School debt exclusion.
I am running for town meeting to help guarantee that Brookline's school system remains a magnet for current and future residents. As the father of two Driscoll School students, a robust future for our growing schools is important to me. It is important that we continue to receive the benefit of greater Boston's diversity through the METCO program in order to broaden the horizons of our children. The Materials Fee program attracts talented teachers from other
communities to our schools, and as the son of a single-parent teacher I know first-hand how the system benefits when teachers are invested in the same schools as their children.
I have served as guide and navigator to Town processes to my P10 neighbors and am eager to continue.
Campaign Phone
617-751-8056
Attendance
23 of 24
I am a long-time Brookline resident, a Brookline League of Women Voters Board member and (Co)Treasurer, a member of Brookline’s Advisory Committee (Land Use and Health and Human Services Subcommittees) and a member of the Indigenous Peoples Celebration Committee. I believe good local government involves listening and finding common ground. I believe good schools are critical and housing is important, as is pedestrian and bicyclist safety. We need green space for recreation and team sports. Our commercial districts need attention - and we need to be smart about our changing climate. My guiding principal is that we agree on much, much more than we disagree and we need to focus on civil debate.
Town Meeting Members speak for their precinct in local government. I take pride in raising our precinct’s concerns early in the process, as budgets are finalized and warrant articles written. As a member of the Advisory Committee, I am engaging with issues the town is facing year-round. I respond on a pragmatic level to the needs of our precinct by requisitioning a new picnic table for Griggs Park. I respond on a more complex level by working with the Select Board to ensure the town’s response to state regulations addresses the concerns of Precinct 10 residents. Because Advisory Committee meetings and subcommittee hearings are open to the public, and recorded, my votes on the issues facing the town are publicly available.
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Campaign Phone
978-257-5776
Attendance
24 of 24
I have been a renter in Precinct 10 since 2013 and fell in love with Brookline on my first day here. Professionally, I have over a decade of experience as a product designer in tech innovation, and am currently working at Toast to support the restaurant industry. I hope to bring a collaborative, creative, and solution-oriented mindset to Brookline Town Meeting. It would be a privilege to represent the residents of Precinct 10. Endorsed by Brookline PAX.
As a young renter, I am running for Town Meeting in an effort to create more representation for people in my demographic. I want to make sure that we are setting a growth-minded vision of Brookline and making choices that allow for people of all ages and incomes to be able to make a home here. We host some of the best walkable neighborhoods in all of New England, and we’ve seen the success of density and mixed-zoning. I’d like to see us expand this successful model, building with both residential and commercial in mind to set ourselves up for a thriving future.
Campaign Phone
617-721-8819
Attendance
Not Incumbent TM Member
I have been a Brookline resident for 20 years and resident of precinct 10 for 15 years. I attended college in the Boston area and lived in various locations after that including overseas on a sailboat before returning here to be closer to my sister and her family who also live in Brookline. I am a software engineer for most of my later career but have had stints in electrical engineering and as a lobsterman.
Brookline has many great qualities as a community but also faces many challenges including housing availability and affordability, funding schools and services, racial justice and diversity, climate change and policing reform.
As a town meeting member I hope to bring progressive values and solutions to these and other issues and to listen to and represent the constituents of precinct 10 equitably.
