Election Results: Mashpee Elects Tracy Kelley, Mike Richardson To Select Board
The results of Mashpee’s Annual Town Election are in.
After a long day of voting saw 2,052 ballots cast on Saturday, May 10—equating to 15% of the town’s more than 13,000 registered voters—unofficial results were delivered by outgoing Town Clerk Deborah F. Kaye just before 10 PM.
For the two-year term on the Mashpee Select Board, voters favored candidate Tracy Kelley. Ms. Kelley earned 1,049 votes. A. Gregory McKelvey earned 931 votes. Seventy-one voters left this section blank.
In electing Ms. Kelley, Mashpee made history: she is the second Mashpee Wampanoag woman to ever serve on the select board, and the first in more than 50 years. Clara Louise Peters Keliinui was the first, serving between 1955 and 1960.
Mashpee voters also selected Michael R. Richardson to serve on the select board. Mr. Richardson earned 1,512 votes, winning him the three-year seat on the board. Timothy M. Dorsey received 328 votes, and 201 voters left this section blank.
Both Karen D. Faulkner and Michael J. Milbury won their bids to serve on the Mashpee Planning Board for three-year terms. Ms. Faulkner received 1,464 votes, and Mr. Milbury earned 1,474 votes.
Jessica Colpitts was elected as Mashpee’s new Town Clerk. Ms. Colpitts ran unopposed for the position and garnered the highest number of votes—1,683—of any candidate on the ballot.
Kate E. Milde and Mary J. LeClair both won their bids to serve three-year terms on the Board of Library Trustees. Ms. Milde earned 1,574 votes and Ms. LeClair earned 1,681.
John W. Miller will serve another three-year term as Town Moderator, earning 1,660 votes.
Camille Madison, who ran unopposed, was elected to a three-year term on the Mashpee School Committee. She received 1,543 votes.
F. Thomas Fudala was elected to serve a three-year term as water commissioner, earning 1,622 votes
Mashpee residents also voted in favor of all five of the ballot questions.
Ballot Question 1, which asked voters to decide on a Proposition 2½ override to fund the construction of a new Mashpee Police station, was approved with 1,379 “yes” votes, and 548 “no” votes.
Ballot Question 2 asked voters to decide on a Proposition 2½ override to fund the town’s Wastewater Phase Three recharge evaluation. Voters approved this question, with 1,546 votes in favor and 401 votes against the measure.
Ballot Question 3 sought approval for a Proposition 2½ override to fund the aluminum sulfate treatment of Mashpee-Wakeby Pond. It was approved with 1,461 “yes” votes, and 463 “no” votes.
Ballot Question 4 also sought a Proposition 2½ exclusion to fund the design and engineering of a Mashpee-Wakeby cluster wastewater treatment facility. Voters approved this measure with 1,455 votes in favor and 463 votes against.
Ballot Question 5 was a non-binding public advisory question that asked voters to decide whether Mashpee’s town government should communicate with Governor Maura T. Healey, Attorney General Andrea Campbell and the State Legislature to ensure that the law is enforced regarding Holtec’s decommissioning of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, and to ensure that Holtec ceases its gaseous discharge of radioactive industrial wastewater. Voters overwhelmingly approved the measure, with 1,717 votes in favor and 221 votes against.