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Election Day November 7
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Election Day November 7
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Election Information


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  • Learn where and when to go to the polls by visiting this page: Register 2023.
  • View a sample ballot here: see the front side or the back side.  (These are District 1; RTM will differ by district.)
  • See candidate debates on ourVideos of Recent Events page.
  • Click on the office below to jump to a description and candidate list.

Vote 411

Click here to visit LWV's Vote411 page, with complete ballot information for every race, including candidate bios.


First Selectman

  • Supervises Town Departments
  • Responsible for Town labor negotiations
  • Non-voting member of all town boards
  • Voting member of Flood & Erosion Control and Bruce Museum boards
  • Prepares Annual Town Budget proposal for BET
  • Approves/Monitors Town operating plans (except Education and Finance)


1st Selectman Candidates

  • Fred Camillo (Incumbent)
  • Laura Erickson


BOCandidates

  • Lauren Rabin (Incumbent)
  • Janet Stone McGuigan (Incumbent)


Board of Selectmen -
including First Selectman


  • Initiates changes in Town Charter
  • Appoints Town officials and committee member
  • Forms special committees to explore Town issues


BET C
andidates

  • Elliot Alchek
  • Matt DesChamps
  • Scott Kalb
  • Leslie Moriarty (Incumbent)
  • Stephen Selbst (Incumbent)
  • David Weisbrod (Incumbent)
  • David Alfano
  • Nisha Arora (Incumbent)
  • Lucia Delvalle Jansen
  • Karen Fassuliotis (Incumbent)
  • Harry Fisher (Incumbent)
  • Leslie Tarkington (Incumbent)


Board of Estimate & Taxation (BET
)

  • Chair (from party with most votes) can cast tie-breaking vote
  • Sets fiscal policy
  • Prepares annual budget
  • Approves interim appropriations
  • Determines annual tax rate
  • Oversees Finance Department, Assessor, Tax Collector
Watch a video on how the BET election works:


Town Clerk

  • Keeps Town Records
  • Swears in voters
  • Prepares ballots, regular and absentee
  • Secretary of the RTM (Representative Town Meeting)
  • Maintains marriage, birth, and death certificates
  • Manages property records
  • Sells licenses (dog, fishing hunting)


Clerk Candidates

  • Jackie Budkins (Incumbent)
  • Lucy von Brachel


Tax Collector C
andidates

  • Joe Huley
  • Heather Smeriglio (Incumbent)


Tax Collector

  • Collects real estate taxes
  • Collects personal property taxes


BOE C
andidates

  • Karen Hirsh (Incumbent)
  • Sophie Koven
  • Karen Kowalski (Incumbent)
  • Wendy Vizzo Walsh


Board of Education (BOE
)

  • Sets policy for Town Schools
  • Approves Annual Education Budget subject to BET and RTM revision
  • Determines teacher employment standards
  • Negotiates teacher contracts with union
  • Hires Superintendent of Schools
  • Decides schools' grade organization
  • Approves educational curricula
  • Manages school property
  • Handles school redistricting
  • Provides for continuing education


Board of Assessment Appeals

  • Decides appeals by residents of property assessments, real and personal
  • Revises assessments upwards or downwards
  • May add items of taxable property to list of any person or add names to the assessment list omitted by the Assessor


BAA C
andidates

  • Bill Grad (Incumbent)
  • Joe Huley (Incumbent)
  • Kit Mill (Incumbent)
  • Mark Pruner (Incumbent)
  • Jeff Reardon (Incumbent)


Constable C
andidates

  • Dawn Fortunato (Incumbent)
  • Donnie Romeo (Incumbent)
  • Donna Malone (Incumbent)
  • Dan Sinisi
  • Charles Edward Thivierge, Jr.  (Incumbent)
  • Tom Waurishuk


Constables

  • Serve legal papers