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Town Clerk, HR and DEI offices present FY25 budgets; town clerk highlights digitization and election preparations
Summary
Town Clerk Ben Coffin, HR Director Anne Braga and ODEICR Director Lloyd Gellineau presented FY25 budgets and priorities: expanded digitization (marriage licenses, zoning), planning for three elections (state primary, presidential, town), HR investments in classification and training, and DEI funding increases for language access and ADA planning.
Town Clerk Ben Coffin told the Select Board that FY25 priorities include administering three elections (state primary Sept. 3, 2024; presidential Nov. 5, 2024; and the May 2025 town election), expanding early‑voting access and continuing a multi‑year digitization effort. Coffin said the town added ballot drop boxes and saw more than 1,300 voters use them in the March election; he also described a plan to create an "elections and census" division and to complete codification of the general bylaws with a vendor (General Code) for potential insertion into the November 2024 Town Meeting warrant.
"We installed ballot drop boxes throughout the town... Over 1,300 voters used those drop boxes to vote in the March…
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