Group tasked with promoting 2020 census By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
The Town Council established a Complete Count Committee to raise awareness of the 2020 census and encourage residents to complete and return it.
Town Council chair Katherine Pugliese, left, with councilor Rosemary Morante during Plainville’s 150th anniversary celebration. Pugliese and Morante are members of the Complete Count Committee tasked with spreading the word about the 2020 census. Devin Leith-Yessian, The Citizen
Morante was one of eight nominees unanimously voted onto the Complete Count Committee during the Monday, Sept. 16 Town Council meeting.
chair Katherine Pugliese, Board of Education vice chair Nicole Palmiere, Democratic Town Committee chair Rebecca Martinez, Senior Center director Shawn Cohen, Plainville Public Library director Trish Tomlinson, Plainville Food Pantry director Susie Wortz and Jennifer Farina, membership sales and service coordinator at the Wheeler Regional Family YMCA.
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More nominees will follow.
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the entire year on the board I've learned so much and I don't want that to go to waste … I also worked hard with the budget and worked hard to curb the spending … “
By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
Republican voters supported party-endorsed candidates in last week’s primary. Current Board of Education Vice Chairperson Nicole Palmieri fell behind fifth-place finisher Town Council incumbent Ty Cox in a six-way race for the five available Republican slots on the council. In the Tuesday, Sept. 10 primary, she received 133 votes to Cox’s 240. About 14 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot in the contest. In the two-way contest for a two-year seat on the Board of Education, Lori Consalvo received 136 votes, falling behind Rachel Buchanan, the endorsed candidate, who received 181.
Palmieri is planning to serve the remaining two years of her term on the Board of Education. She said her reason for running for council was to give the board a greater voice in the formation of the town’s budget. She said she was dismayed to be the target of personal attacks during the primary process. “I believe that’s why a lot of good people don’t want to get involved with politics,” she said.
Back in August, Palmieri told The Citizen she felt the 34 Republican Town Committee members who Consalvo was appointed selected the party’s ento the board on Aug. 20, 2018, after the resignation dorsed candidates don’t represent the views of all of then-chair Andrea Saunders, who moved out- Republican voters in town. of-state. “I think it would be helpLeading up to the primary, ful to have someone who Consalvo told The Citizen, understands the Board of “I just feel since I spent See Primary, A11
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The census is used to determine the number of seats a state receives in the U.S. House of Representatives and how $675 billion in federal aid is distributed.
Town Manager Robert Lee said town staff worked with Pugliese, Morante and Palmiere – who all volunteered for the committee after two Census Bureau officials pushed for its creation during a presentation to the council in June – to identify members of the community who could speak with residents regarding the 2020 census.
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“I think we realized how important it is for Plainville to be fully counted, especially for both funding and representation,” Councilor Rosemary Morante said. “I'm very happy that we're being proactive with having a group that is going to promote participation in this 2020 census."
Thursday, September 19, 2019
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