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Hopedale: Selectmen discuss lack of civic engagement
http://www.milforddailynews.com/article/20150803/NEWS/150809131Hopedale: Selectmen discuss lack of civic engagement
By Zachary Comeau/Daily News Staff
Posted Aug. 3, 2015 at 9:26 PM
Updated Aug 4, 2015 at 4:25 PM
HOPEDALE - With the help of a local Boy Scout, the Board of Selectmen at its Monday meeting made another plea for residents to come forward and serve on the many town boards and committees with vacancies.
Selectmen Tom Wesley read a letter from Troop 21 Boy Scout Casey Goyette, an Uxbridge resident and Hopedale student working on his citizenship badge, which requires studying a particular local issue.
“The issue I have chosen is the lack of people interested in having a position in town government,” Goyette wrote in a letter to Town Administrator Steven Sette.
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According to a spreadsheet of board and committee vacancies, there are more than 50 vacancies. Only a small number of boards are fully staffed.