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Longtime New Canaan town clerk urges keeping post elected, warns of privacy and independence risks from appointment
Summary
Claudia Weber, New Canaan’s elected town clerk for 28 years, told the Charter Revision Commission that keeping the town clerk an elected office protects privacy, independence, and election certification; commissioners debated replacement, staffing, and related charter reforms including the treasurer and tax collector.
Claudia Weber, New Canaan’s elected town clerk for nearly three decades, urged the Charter Revision Commission on Feb. 17 to keep the town clerk’s office elective, saying voters’ oversight helps preserve independence and protect residents’ private land-record data.
"The town clerk should remain as an elected officer of the town," Weber told commissioners, laying out five reasons: accountability and independence, the clerk’s role in setting policy within statutory limits, guarding against cronyism, checks and balances (the ability to refuse unlawful or improper requests), and responsibility for managing absentee ballots, referenda and certification of municipal elections.
Weber said much of…
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