Brookline Town Meeting moderator stepping down after 27 years
Wicked Local
His presence is almost as synonymous with Brookline’s legislative body as the famous Town Meeting Cookie, but after 27 years as moderator, Sandy Gadsby is stepping down.
Gadsby announced in an email to Town Meeting members last week he will not seek re-election on May 4, despite initially pulling papers to run.
“I have consistently publicly held that, if someone whom I believed was competent to perform the duties of moderator sought the position in the May Town election, I would not run for re-election,” he wrote.
So far, Michael A. Burstein, C. Scott Ananian and Kate Poverman have also pulled papers to run for town moderator. Only Ananian had returned them as of Feb. 19. The deadline to submit/file nomination papers with the Town Clerk is Tuesday, March 16.