The contests for MTA President and Vice President will be decided at the upcoming Annual Meeting of Delegates. Candidates for the MTA Board of Directors and Retired Members Committee were all declared elected by waiver under a provision in the MTA Bylaws. No Executive Committee seats were up for election this year.
A statement by the only candidate for MTA President who submitted nomination papers by the deadline — Max Page — appears in this edition. Statements by candidates for Vice President — Deb McCarthy and Yahaira Rodriguez — also are published in this edition. The offices for President and Vice President have two-year terms and begin on July 15. Candidate statements are published in ballot order.
Candidates declared elected
All candidates for MTA Board of Directors seats who submitted nomination papers by the deadline have been declared elected under the election waiver in the MTA Bylaws.
The provision states that if there is only one candidate for an open position, the election will be waived and the candidate is declared elected. Terms on the Board begin on July 1 and continue for three years.
Board seats for districts 9B, 28D, 30E, 25F and 47H also have terms ending this year, but no candidates submitted nomination papers by the deadline. Therefore, the interim election process for filling vacancies will take place shortly after the Annual Meeting of Delegates. Members in the affected districts will be notified of the nomination and election process and timeline.
The candidates for Board of Directors declared elected by waiver are as follows:
Board of Directors
At-Large Director for Ethnic Minority Membership: Rosa Lopez-Whitehill, Pembroke Teachers Association
District 7B: Rick Maynard, Fitchburg Education Association
District 10B: Kirsten Frazier, Educational Association of Worcester
District 35C: Christopher Szkutak, Whitman-Hanson Education Association
District 42C: Cherian Armstrong, Monomoy Regional Education Association
District 14D: Sarah McKeon, Framingham Teachers Association
District 32D: Truong Dinh, Braintree Education Association
District 23F: Jennifer Zabelsky, Haverhill Education Association
District 24F: Laura Newton, Beverly Teachers Association
District 19G: Robert (Bobby) Travers, Cambridge Education Association
District 44H: Paul Johansen, Mass. Community College Council
District 46H: Jeanne Brunner, Mass. Society of Professors, UMass Amherst
Candidates for the Board declared elected and who provided photos are pictured with this article.
CANDIDATES DECLARED ELECTED
