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Appointments committee recommends confirmation of Steve Hirons as sealer of weights and measures
Summary
The Gardener City Council Appointments Committee on July 30 recommended the full council confirm Steve Hirons as the city’s sealer of weights and measures after an interview in which Hirons described annual and periodic testing of scales, scanners and fuel pumps and raised equipment-age and recordkeeping as ongoing challenges.
On July 30, 2025, the Appointments Committee of the Gardener City Council recommended that the full council confirm Steve Hirons as the city’s sealer of weights and measures. The committee moved to recommend confirmation by voice vote after an interview with Hirons during the committee’s meeting.
The sealer enforces measurement accuracy for consumer transactions in Gardener, a role Hirons described as validating scales, gas pumps, measuring devices and other instruments used in trade. “I am the sealer of weights and measures for the city of Gardener. I test all of the scales, gas pumps, oil trucks, measuring devices, yardsticks,” Hirons said during his interview, summarizing the office’s consumer-protection work.
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