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, May 15
- Water and Sewer Board, 2 p.m., Veterans Memorial Community Center
- Year-Round Market-Rate Rental Housing Trust, 3:30 p.m.
- Community Housing Council, 4 p.m.
- Historical Commission, 4 p.m., Library
- Open Space Committee, 4 p.m.
- Board of Health, 4 p.m.
- Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m.
Monday, May 19
- Public Landscape Committee, 3 p.m., Veterans Memorial Community Center
- Housing Authority, 5:30 p.m., 44 Harry Kemp Way
Tuesday, May 20
- Conservation Commission, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, May 21
- Historic District Commission, 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 22
- Planning Board, 6 p.m.
Conversation Starter
Election Results
Five hundred forty-one people turned out to vote in Provincetown’s town election this year, according to preliminary figures from Town Clerk Liz Paine — 16 percent of the town’s 3,427 registered voters.
There were two select board seats on the ballot and only two candidates running: chair Dave Abramson, who received 400 votes, and vice chair John Golden, who received 405.
There were also two school committee seats on the ballot: committee member Matthew Gunn was reelected with 405 votes while Chelsea Crowe was elected with 413.
No one filed to run for a seat on the charter compliance commission, but for the second time in a row Oriana Conklin was elected by voters who wrote in her name. She got eight write-in votes in 2022; this year, 17 people wrote her name on their ballots.
No one had filed for a seat on the board of library trustees, either, but Stephen Borkowski was elected with 20 write-in votes.
The $1.4-million operating override that voters had approved at town meeting by a landslide vote was just a bit closer at the ballot box: 363 voters endorsed it while 138 voted against. The 72-percent approval vote was far above the simple majority required by the rules of Proposition 2½.
Ballot Question 2, an advisory measure asking state officials to oppose the “gaseous discharge” of contaminated water at the decommissioned Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, got more votes than any candidate on the ballot: 465 people voted for it, and 32 against. —Paul Benson
