No Election Necessary for Neighborhood Council

No one is challenging incumbent candidates for precinct seats on the Charlestown Neighborhood Council (CNC) so there will be no election this weekend to vote them in.

This year the council's six precincts were open for re-election, but the six existing precinct councilors ran again -- without opposition -- and one new member will join the council, filling the Precinct 6 seat, which has been vacant for months.

CNC bylaws allow for the council to forgo a public election and simply accept the candidates at the council's upcoming general meeting.

Barbara Babin, who heads up the council's elections committee, told Patch the following candidates submitted nomination papers by the Nov. 4 deadline. Each candidate had to collect 25 signatures from neighbors within their precinct.

Precinct  1:  Judith M. Brennan    
Precinct  2:  David Whelan    
Precinct  3:  William J. Galvin    
Precinct  4:   George Morton    
Precinct  5: Richard Mc Carthy     
Precinct  6:  Anthony McGuinness*    
Precinct  7: Michael Charbonnier

*Anthony McGinness will be a new member of the CNC. The other five candidates are long-time members of the board.

The Neighborhood Council is made up of 21 seats. In addition to the seven precinct seats, there are seven at-large seats and seven seats appointed to represent neighborhood and nonprofit organizations. For more info on the council, visit its page on the Charlestown Chamber of Commerce web site.