Meetings Ahead
Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to an agenda and details. All meetings are at Town Hall unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, March 20
- Open Space Committee, 4 p.m.
- Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m.
Monday, March 24
- Select Board, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, March 25
- Licensing Board, 5 p.m.
Wednesday, March 26
- Coastal Resiliency Advisory Board, noon
- Harbor Committee, 2 p.m.
- Personnel Board, 4:30 p.m.
- Town Meeting forum, 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 27
- Planning Board, 6 p.m.
Conversation Starters
Filing Deadline
Candidates in this year’s town election on May 13 have two important deadlines coming up: they must pick up nomination papers from the town clerk by noon on Friday, March 21 and turn them in by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25.
So far, no one has pulled papers to run for a vacant seat on the board of library trustees or for the charter compliance commission seat currently held by Oriana Conklin.
Incumbent school committee members Adrianna Stefani and Matthew Gunn have both pulled nomination papers as has challenger Chelsea Crowe, but none had turned the forms in as of Tuesday.
Select board chair Dave Abramson has pulled papers but not yet turned them in, while select board member John Golden submitted 34 signatures on Feb. 13.
Only one other person has turned in nomination papers: Jere Lorenzo Miller took out papers for a select board run on Feb. 25 and turned them in with one signature on March 10.
Because 22 signatures are currently required to run for office here — 1 percent of the 2,237 voters in the most recent gubernatorial race — Miller’s papers were officially marked as withdrawn.
Town Meeting Forum
There are 47 articles on this year’s warrant, and voters who want to learn more about them can go to a forum at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26.
Town staff will present on some articles, including Article 2, a $1.4-million override to fund leadership positions in the fire dept. and overtime in the police dept.
The sponsors of petitioned articles will also have a chance to speak. There are four on this year’s warrant: one on gender-inclusive bathrooms in town-owned buildings, two on the regulation of building materials, and one that would cap the number of short-term rental licenses in town at 1,000. —Paul Benson
