Island voters will be asked to fill nine of the 21 seats on the Martha’s Vineyard Commission this November.
The deadline for submitting nomination papers to run for the commission is July 31 at 5 pm. To appear on the November ballot, nomination papers must be filled out by candidates and have 10 signatures from registered voters with their local board of registrars.
The following nine commissioner terms will expire on Dec. 31, 2018:
- Trip Barnes, Tisbury
- Josh Goldstein, Tisbury
- Christina Brown, Edgartown
- Robert Doyle, Chilmark
- Fred Hancock, Oak Bluffs
- Richard Toole, Oak Bluffs
- E. Douglas Sederholm, West Tisbury
- Linda Sibley, West Tisbury
- James Vercruysse, Aquinnah
One commissioner must be elected from each town, and no more than two commissioners can be from any one town.
Nomination papers may be obtained at the commission’s office at 33 New York Ave. in Oak Bluffs.
Trip Barnes is the West Tisbury representative. He doesn’t live in Tisbury.
No, he’s elected from Tisbury. This is directly from the Martha’s Vineyard Commission website: http://www.mvcommission.org/
It still seems unclear. What does “elected from” mean? Can anyone represent any town of their own choosing on the MVC?
Thank you for the clarification. It’s odd that he lives in West Tisbury. He’s my neighbor.
You can declare any town as your residence; you only have one legal residence; you vote (and are elected) where you “reside”. Trip lives in West Tisbury, as we all know, but his declared residence is in VH. Therefore he is a VH voter and he runs for a VH seat on the MVC.
In theory a town can challenge your declaration of residence. In practice they don’t really care.
When you vote, think “term limits” !
These people who sit on boards for 20 and 30 years forget who they are working for. They come to think of their responsibility to the community as their own personal enterprise.
New blood is called for on many of our local boards !
Does the job come with a free house?
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