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SECTION 78. Nomination of the School Committee.
The nominating panel annually shall from among its membership elect a chairman who shall forthwith file a list of the names and addresses of the members of the panel with the city clerk. The panel shall meet in public for the sole purpose of deliberating upon, hearing public comment with respect to, and finally selecting a list of nominees to be presented to the mayor from time to time. Each nominee shall be a resident of Boston at the time of such nomination. The panel shall strive to nominate individuals who reflect the ethnic, racial and socioeconomic diversity of the city of Boston and its public school population.
On the first Wednesday of October of every year the nominating panel shall convene to select not fewer than three but not more than five nominees for each office of school committee member that shall become vacant on the first day of the next municipal year. No later than the first Monday in December of each year, the panel shall present to the mayor a list containing the names and addresses of the said nominees for each term of office to commence on the first day of the next municipal year; provided, however, should the panel fail to present said list to the mayor by said first Monday in December, the mayor shall have the power to appoint any person he deems suitable to the office of school committee for the term to commence in the following January.
Upon notice provided by the city clerk that a vacancy exists in the office of any school committee member due to death or resignation, the panel shall convene within ten days of such notice and shall, within thirty days after so convening, select and present to the mayor a list containing the names and addresses of not fewer than three but not more than five nominees. Within fifteen days after such presentment, the mayor shall appoint a school committee member to serve the unexpired term of the vacant office; provided, however, should the panel fail to present said list within said thirty days, the mayor shall have the power to appoint any person he deems suitable to the vacant office to serve said unexpired term.
[Acts of 1991, c. 108, s. 7]
APPENDIX A
BALLOT QUESTIONS—1909, 1948, 1996, 2021
I. Acts of 1909, c. 486, s. 35
SECTION 35: At the state election on November second, nineteen hundred and nine, the then registered male voters of the city of Boston shall be entitled to vote upon the following plans, which shall be printed upon the official ballot in the following form. The voters shall make a cross in the space at the right of the plan which he desires to have adopted. No ballot shall be counted upon which the voter has made a cross in both spaces.
Plan No. 1. The term of mayor to be two years; the city council to consist of one member from each ward (except wards twenty and twenty-four, which shall have two each) nominated in primaries and elected for two-year terms; nominations for school committee, mayor, and councilmen-at-large to be made by independent nominations and by delegates elected by the voters in the primaries.
Plan No. 2. The term of mayor to be four years, subject to recall after two years by not less than a majority of all the voters in the city; the city council to consist of nine members elected at large for three-year terms; all nominations for a municipal election to be made by petition of not less than five thousand voters, without party designations on the ballot.
Results November 2, 1909 | |||
Plan 1 | Plan 2 | Blanks | Total |
35, 276 | 39,170 | 5,970 | 80,416 |
Registered Voters: 107,918 |
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