Vision

The position of Town Moderator precedes the Constitution of the United States and its duties include not only ensuring the smooth management of Town Meeting, but also appointing diverse citizens of our Town to various voluntary committees including the Warrant, Committee, Board of Appeals, Fire Station Building committee and School Building Committee among others. I view the job as both non-partisan and non-policy.

I have and will continue to remain silent on the policy matters of the town while appointing citizens who represent diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds

Goals

Continue the smooth management of Town Meeting

Continue to bring innovation to Town Meeting – Generative AI has the potential aid our citizens in understand their warrant articles. This technology can summarize a complex article into a few descriptive sentences and I want to explore its use in our Warrant

Adapt to legislative changes – Right now, the Legislature is considering introducing Hybrid Town Meetings. This model will be difficult to implement as it will require designing new processes and selecting new technology to support Town Meeting. I designed the Remote Town Meeting model we used during Covid and if necessary, I will use my 40+ years the software industry to design a model to run a Hybrid Town Meeting

Continue to support “Mock Town Meeting” in the Pierce Middle School. I set a goal in 2016 to work with our schools to increase awareness of our Representative Town Meeting and am proud to have helped kick off the first in 2023

Experience

In addition to serving 9 years as your Town Moderator, I have been a Precinct 3 Town Meeting Member, member of the Town Government Study Committee, Co-Warden of St. Michael’s Church of Milton, Scout leader in Troop 3 and Cub Scout Pack 5

I implemented the Consent Agenda to Town Meeting that allowed us to pass up to 26 non-controversial articles in 1 vote, saving precious time to spend on more substantive articles

I researched and implemented Electronic Voting which saved additional time by eliminating Standing Counts and Roll Call Votes while also providing a record of how your Representatives voted on Articles

I serve as Board Member of the Massachusetts Moderator Association and on a committee of senior / experienced Moderators available to answer difficult or complex questions from Moderators across the Commonwealth

I have recently retired from Accenture where I led a $2 B software business managing 5,000 employees and serving 2,000 clients around the world. Many of our Milton residents are customers of companies that use my software