To the editor:
I would like to thank our wonderful volunteers for making the June 9 Special Town Meeting run smoothly and efficiently.
It was the first time we tried a number of new ideas, and I am delighted with how we incorporated them into the meeting. It was the first time we used two venues (Donaldson Auditorium and Reed Gymnasium) for a Town Meeting, the first time we used electronic Poll Pads to speed up the check-in process, and the first time we used election tabulators and multiple-choice standing counts. Furthermore, everything went perfectly according to plan, thanks to you.
The following volunteers cheerfully checked you in: Daniela Caride, Elaine Carroll, Elena Christenfeld, Margaret Flint, Emily Lovering, Preeya Patel, and Maddie Zuckerman. We have had the pleasure of having Preeya and Maddie as interns this past year at the Town Clerk’s office, and this summer we will welcome Elena as an intern.
Thank you to Lindsay Clemens and Sharon Hobbs for graciously greeting voters, and Bryce Wolf, Steve Gladstone, and Alaric Naiman for being door checkers and reminding non-voters to sit in the designated areas.
We had a fabulous team who collected ballots from both venues, fed them into the tabulators, and performed the standing counts: Sharon and Bob Antia, Susan Capestro, Daniela Caride, Roger Creel, Margaret Flint, Denis Fox, Pam Gallup, Betty Green, Chris Hamilton, Ruth Ann Hendrickson, Crickett Kerrebrock, Sue and Chris Klem, Nancy Marshall, Karen Moss, Elinor Nichols, Kathleen Nichols, Dan Pereira, Maggie Pietropaolo, Barbara Sampson, and Bryce Wolf.
Thanks also to the many others who volunteered and made themselves available: Mary Brody, Jack MacLean, Mark Masterson, Ellen Meadors, Claire Mount, Al Schmertzler, Dilla Tingley, Dana Weigent, Jean Welsh, and Robin Wilkerson.
Special thanks go to Andy Beard for being the deputy moderator in a busy Reed Gym and coordinating events beautifully. Finally, thank you to Susan Brooks and Susan Francis for all their help and support along the way.
Sincerely,
Valerie Fox, Deputy Town Clerk
250 South Great Rd.
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Many of the names in your list are people who have been tirelessly and devotedly serving the town in many ways for a very long time. They are the glue and the energy that make Lincoln the wonderful community it is, and we are grateful for all they do.