Framingham School Chat Site Founder Running For Charter Commissioner

FRAMINGHAM, MA – Former long-time Town Meeting Member and former Chair of the Standing Committee on Public Safety, Cheryl Gordon announced she is a candidate for Framingham Charter Commission.

Editor’s Note: Framingham voters will decide a ballot question on March 29, if they want to create a Charter Commission to study Framingham’s form of government. Also on that ballot, Framingham voters will be asked to elect 9 Charter Commissioners. Framingham Patch is allowing every candidate for commissioner to submit an announcement, per the Framingham Patch election policy.

Below is Gordon’s announcement:

My name is Cheryl Gordon, and I am a lifelong Framingham resident, homeowner, taxpayer, and working mom of two children attending Framingham Public Schools. I am a former Town Meeting Member (12 years) and former Chair of the Standing Committee on Public Safety.

I have spent the last five years serving as administrator of the Chat about The Framingham, MA Public Schools Facebook page (over 1,800 members) and plan to keep the Facebook school community apprised with regular updates during the charter process.

I was educated in the Framingham Public Schools (K-12) and received my Bachelor’s Degree from Framingham State College.

The current Town Meeting setup is inefficient and antiquated.

Town Meeting is too large (with too many vacancies), too slow, and not truly representative of the demographics of our community. The community has nothing to lose and everything to gain by creating a Charter Commission to study how we can improve, streamline, and modernize our government.

I feel strongly that an effective Charter Commission should be made up of individuals from all walks of life with diverse backgrounds, varying careers, incomes, and even varying ideas of what our future government may look like. This ensures that a recommendation to the voters, as put forth by the commission at the end of the study period, would be more likely to be embraced by the entire community and lead to immediate streamlining and upgrading or our government.

Please VOTE YES to create a Charter Commission on March 29 and then cast one of your nine votes for me.

I am reachable via email at CGordon09@comcast.net and by phone at 508-875-4859.