The Select Board Friday morning approved the addition of a second Sudbury School Committee seat to the March 31 Annual Town Election ballot, to fill a two-year term resulting from the resignation of SPS committee member Mary Stephens. A three-year seat is also open.
The races for the two seats will be separate. People interested in running for the SPS Committee will have to choose whether they wish to run for the three-year or two-year seat. They must file their intention to run for one of the seats by the Thursday, Feb. 6, deadline at the Town Clerk’s office, 322 Concord Rd., during business hours. The clerk’s office will be closed from 10 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, Jan. 28.
Two people, Kathleen Bell and Elizabeth Sues, have already pulled papers for the three-year seat, but have not returned those papers to the Clerk’s office.
Stevens submitted her resignation as a school committee member on Tuesday, Jan. 21. The deadline for the Select Board to put that vacancy on the ballot was Jan. 24. Beth Klein, the Town Clerk, had to formally request that the Select Board take that action.
In her request to the Select Board, Klein noted that the Select Board must file notice of an election for a vacant office with the Town Clerk “not less than fifteen days before the last day to submit nomination papers to the registrars of voters for certification, before the election,” which would be Jan. 24 in this case.
Stephens, who was elected to the position in March 2024, cited a family health concern and decision to move out of Sudbury in her letter of resignation. She added that she decided to resign in time to place the open position on the March 31 ballot, “to ensure that the Sudbury community has the opportunity to select my replacement.”
There are now 14 open positions on this year’s Annual Town Election ballot. Any Sudbury registered voter may run for office. Prospective candidates do not need permission from a board or committee to run.
There is a complete list of open positions here. You can find information about how to run for office here, and resources to support a run for office here.
The period for prospective candidates to file their intention ends Thursday, Feb. 6. Nomination papers (“signatures”) must be returned by Feb. 10.
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