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Date: 5/24/2022
SOUTHAMPTON – The 2022 Southampton Annual Town Election featured zero contested races for various board seats in town.
The May 17 election at the Senior Center represented the first year where two separate precincts were reflected in Southampton due to a population increase based off the 2020 federal census. According to a state law, once a town exceeds 6,200 in total population, that town must add a second precinct. Southampton’s population, according to the census, totaled 6,224. At 7.5 percent, Southampton experienced Hampshire County’s largest population growth rate from 2010 to 2020.
According to Town Clerk Luci Dalton, there are 4,496 active voters in town, and 303 ballots were cast during the election, including five absentee ones.
The results provided to Reminder Publishing are as follows: Robert Floyd was re-elected as town moderator for one year; Christine Fowles was re-elected to the Selectboard for three years; Faith Harrison was elected as the almoner for four years; April West was elected as the town assessor for three years; Leah Nero Carrasquillo was elected to the Board of Health for one year; William Wells was elected as the cemetery commissioner for three years; Donna Whitely was elected as a write-in for a one-year term on the Finance Committee; Rebecca Plimpton was also elected as a write-in for two years; Janet Cain and Joy Piper were elected to the Housing Authority for five years; Pamela Bernier, Tracy Collins, Mark Domina, Jessica Lee Hufnagle, Jessica McConnell, and Carolyn McKeown were elected to the Board of Library Trustees for three years; Patrick Martin and Dylan Mawdsley were elected as park commissioners for five years; Paul Furgal was elected to the Planning Board for five years; Carolyn Barcomb and Catherine Thibodeau were elected to the Hampshire Regional School Committee for two and three years, respectively; Mawdsley was also elected to the Norris School Committee for two years; Ronald Laurin was elected as the tree warden for one year; and Joseph Slattery was elected as water commissioner for three years.
Additionally found in the results are several vacancies that the town still needs to fill including, a Finance Committee member for a three-year term, as well as three Personnel Policy & Procedure Board members – one for one year, one for two year and one for three years.
With a vote of 155-148, Southampton residents also approved a question that asked them if they would allow the town to be exempt from Proposition 2½ to pay for a new 35,000-pound wheel loader for the Highway Department.