
Resolution sent to Beacon Hill for approval, Matewsky’s effort to return to ward voting fails
By JOSH RESNEK
A resolution asking the state House of Representatives and the Senate to consider a home rule petition allowing the mayor to serve as a voting member of the School Committee passed Monday night. The vote was 7-4.
Another vote taken on the issue of changing voting practices from at-large to ward district voting failed.
The mayor’s initiative to gain a vote on the School Committee will now be judged and voted on by the legislature.
If and when an affirmative vote approves the measure, the mayor will sit as a voting member.
The voting change measure met a different fate.
It failed to pass.
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