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More than 5,500 Needham voters cast a ballot in the town s 2021 local election, according to official results provided by the Town Clerk s office shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
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Needham Select Board
History was made in the contest for two open seats on the Needham Select Board. Lakshmi Balachandra and Marcus Nelson secured roughly 65% of the total votes cast in the contest and are the first two people of color to be elected to the town s executive board.
Balachandra, a professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson, won 34.4% of the vote. Nelson, a director of membership sales and service at the YMCA of Greater Boston, secured 32.1% of the vote.
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Previous or Current Elected or Appointed Office
Interim School Committee member 2019; Town Meeting member since 2016
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Why are you seeking elective office?
The Reading Public Schools have done an excellent job of educating my daughters, and I would like to help ensure that same excellence for all current and future students.
The single most pressing issue facing our (board, district, etc.) is , and this is what I intend to do about it. The single most pressing issue facing all districts in Massachusetts and the country is the pandemic. The Massachusetts Education Commissioner has said districts need to get elementary students back in the district starting April 5, the day before the election, with middle and high school starting later in the month. I hope I can be helpful in that process, though it is an operational issue, and thus outside the purview of the School Committee. But if there are budget adjustments (cost center transfers) that are