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TOWN OF BROOKLINE MASSACHUSETTS 306th Annual Report of the Town Officers of Brookline for the year ending December 31, 2011 www.brooklinema.gov www.brooklinema.gov Table of Contents Town Officers………………………………………………………...……………… 3 Selectmen…………………...……………………………………………………….. 10 Town Administrator………………………………………………………………… 17 Town Moderator..…………………………………………………………………… 22 Advisory Committee……………………………………………..…………………. 22 Town Meeting………………………………………..………...……………………. 25 General Government Town Clerk…………………………………………………………………... 39 Registrars of Voters………………………………………………………… 42 Town Counsel……………………………………………………………….. 43 Human Resources…………………………………………..……………… 44 Public Safety Police Department………………………………………………….………. 47 Fire Department…………………………………………………………….. 57 Building Department………………………………………………………... 63 Building Commission……………………………………………………….. 65 Board of Examiners………………………………………………………… 66 Public Works Administration Division……………………………………………………... 67 Highway and Sanitation Division………………………………………….. 69 Water and Sewer Division…………………………………………………. 73 Parks and Open Space Division…………………………………………... 75 Engineering and Transportation Division………………………………… 82 Recreation Department………………………………………...………………….. 89 Public Schools………………………………………..………...…………………… 92 Library………………………………………..………...………………………….…. 100 Planning and Community Development………………………………………... 104 Planning Division……………………………………………………………. 104 Preservation Division ……………….……………..………………………. 106 Housing Division…………………………..………………………...……… 109 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program…………… 110 Economic Development ……………………………………... 111 Board of Appeals …………………………………………………………… 113 Housing Authority…………………………………………………………… 114 Human Services Health Department…………………………………………………..……… 116 Human Relations – Youth Resources……………………………………. 122 Broadband Monitoring Committee………………………………………… 127 Council on Aging……………………………………………………………. 129 Veterans…………………………………………………….……………..… 132 Americans with Disabilities Act Transition Team………………………... 133 Commission for the Disabled …………………………………………… 135 Brookline Commission for the Arts………………………………………... 136 Brookline Commission for Women………………………………………... 138 Information Technology Department……………………………………………. 140 Finance Department……………………..…………………………………………. 143 Treasury Division………………………………………………………. 143 Comptroller’s Division. ………………………………………………… 145 Assessors Division………………………………………………………… 147 Purchasing Division……………………………………….………………... 148 Retirement Board………………………………..……………………..…… 150 Telephone Directory……………………..…………………………………………. 152 Town Fact Sheet…………………………………………………………………….. 153 2 2011 Annual Report ______________ TOWN OFFICERS For the Municipal Year 2011 ___________________________ _______________________________________ ELECTED TOWN OFFICES APPOINTED BY THE MODERATOR MODERATOR ADVISORY COMMITTEE Edward (Sandy) Gadsby (2012) Harry Bohrs, Chair (2013) Neil Wishinsky, Vice Chair (2013) TOWN CLERK Carla Wyman Benka (2013) Patrick J. Ward (2012) Edith R. Brickman (2013) Francis G. Caro (2013) BOARD OF SELECTMEN Benjamin J. Franco (2013) Betsy DeWitt, Chair (2012) Nancy Heller (2014) Nancy A. Daly (2014) Amy F. Hummel (2012) Jesse Mermell (2013) Sytske V. Humphrey (2014) Richard W. Benka (2014) Angela Hyatt (2012) Kenneth M. Goldstein (2012) Janice S. Kahn (2014) Estelle Katz (2012) TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Bobbie M. Knable (2012) Carol Axelrod, Chair (2012) Gerald Koocher (2014) Michael A. Burstein (2013) Frederick S. Lebow (2012) Vivien E. Goldman (2012) Fred Levitan (2013) Regina Healy (2012) Pamela Lodish (2014) Gary Jones (2014) Sean M. Lynn-Jones (2013) Karen Livingston (2014) Sharri Mittel (2012) Jonathan Margolis (2014) Michael Oates (2013) Jennifer Rees (2013) Lee Selwyn (2014) Edith W. Sperber (2012) Stanley Spiegel (2013) Mary T. Sullivan (2014) Charles Swartz (2014) Judith Vanderkay (2013) Michael S. Traister (2014) Robert Winitzer (2013) Leonard Weiss (2014) Karen Wenc (2012) SCHOOL COMMITTEE Christine M. Westphal (2012) Rebecca Stone, Chair (2014) Helen Charlupski (2013) COMMITTEE ON TOWN ORGANIZATION AND Elizabeth Childs (2012) STRUCTURE Amy A. Kershaw (2014) Jean D. Berg, Chair (2014) Susan Wolf Ditkoff (2013) Donna Kalikow (2014) Alan Morse (2014) Richard T. Leary (2013) Judy Meyers (2012) Michael Robbins (2013) Barbara C. Scotto (2012) Martin R. Rosenthal (2012) Henry B. Warren (2013) Robert I. Sperber (2012) Robert M. Stein (2013) BROOKLINE HOUSING AUTHORITY David Trietsch, Chair (2013) COMMITTEE ON CAMPAIGNS Michael Jacobs, Vice Chair (2016) James Fleming, Chair (2013) Barbara B. Dugan (2015) Frank Farlow (2012) Joanne M. Sullivan (2014) Gary Jones (2014) State Appointment (Vacant) Barbara Pasten (2012) Joel Shoner (2014) Sloan Sable (Selectmen’s Rep.) Linda Golburgh (Town Clerk Rep.) 3 www.brooklinema.gov _________________________________________ SENIOR MANAGEMENT APPOINTMENTS BOARD OF SELECTMEN’S OFFICE Melvin A. Kleckner, Town Administrator Sean Cronin, Deputy Town Administrator Melissa Goff, Asst Town Administrator BUILDING DEPARTMENT Michael Shepard, Commissioner Charles Simmons, Public Buildings POLICE CHIEF Director Daniel C. O’Leary Tony Guigli, Building Project Administrator PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Andrew Pappastergion, Commissioner COUNCIL ON AGING Phil Trainor, Water and Sewer Director Ruthann Dobek, Director Peter Ditto, Engineering/Transportation Director FIRE CHIEF Erin Chute Gallentine, Parks & Open Space Paul D. Ford Director Kevin Johnson, Highway Director HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES Dr. Alan Balsam, Director RECREATION Lisa Paradis, Director HUMAN RELATIONS/YOUTH RESOURCES SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT C. Stephen Bressler, Director William H. Lupini HUMAN RESOURCES TOWN COUNSEL’S OFFICE Sandra DeBow, Director Jennifer Dopazo Gilbert, Town Counsel John Buchheit, Assoc. Town Counsel INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Patricia Correa, Assoc. Town Counsel Kevin Stokes, Chief Information Officer Joslin Ham Murphy, Assoc. Town Counsel PLANNING & COMMUNITY TOWN LIBRARIAN DEVELOPMENT James C. Flatherty Jeff Levine, Director Joseph Viola, Assistant Director VETERANS SERVICES Kara Brewton, Economic Development William McGroarty, Director Officer 4 2011 Annual Report ______________________________________________ Boards and Commissions Appointed by the Selectmen ADVISORY COUNCIL ON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS Dr. Bruce Cohen, Chair (2013) Gavin Andrews, Co-Chair (2013) Roberta Gianfortoni (2012) Joanne Lukitsh, Co-Chair (2012) Milly Krakow (2012) Jack Curtis (2012) Cheryl Lefman (2013) Katherine Ewen (2013) Patricia Maher (2014) Jennifer Green (2012) Anthony Schlaff (2014) Jeanette L. Guillemin (2013) Mori Insinger (2013) BOARD OF APPEALS Jonathan Lewis (2013) Enid Starr, Chair (2013) Katherine Lapuh (2013) Jesse Geller (2012) Joseph McGonegal (2012) Christopher Hussey (2014) Susan Mulski (2014) Giti Saeidian (2013) ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Stuart Steck (2014) Jonathan Book (2013) Marie Wilson (2013) Lisa Serafin (2012) 4 Vacancies (2012) Mark Zuroff (2014) Vacancy (2014) COMMISSION FOR WOMEN Vacancy (2012) Chris Chanyasulkit, Co-Chair (2012) Sandra Lundy, Co-Chair (2014) BOARD OF ASSESSORS Merry Arnold (2013) Gary McCabe, Chair (2013) Elizabeth Blanchard (2012) Mark J. Mazur (2012) Casey Hatchett, (2013) Harold Petersen (2014) Beth Jones (2013) Alberta Grossman Lipson (2012) BOARD OF EXAMINERS Dr. Gloria Rudisch (2013) Barnett Berliner (2014) Beth Fagan (2014) Fred Lebow (2012) Aiomee Tallarico (2014) VACANCY (2013) Jamie Tober (2014) Kristen Uekermann (2014) BROADBAND MONITORING COMMITTEE Francine Berger, Chair BUILDING COMMISSION Michael Newman Janet Fierman, Chair (2012) Al Pisano George Cha (2012) Michael S. Selib George Cole (2013) Kenneth Kaplan (2013) BROOKLINE ACCESS TELEVISION David Pollack (2014) William Slotnick, Chair (2014) Karen Katz (2015) CELEBRATIONS COMMITTEE Albert Davis (2014) Michael W. Merrill, Co-Chair Karen Hirsch (2013) Robert Allen, Co-Chair Mary Hoffe (2012) Jesse Mermell, Selectman Raymond Latif (2013) Amy Clark Hsiu-Lan Chang (2012) Annmarie Cedrone Peter Miller (2014) Polly Cornblath Anne C. Shreffler (2014) Andrew Pappastergion 5 www.brooklinema.gov CELEBRATIONS COMMITTEE (cont’d) COUNCIL ON AGING (cont’d) Peter Ditto Irvin Finn (2013) Eli Gorock Philip Fullerton (2012) Kelly Hardebeck Mary Lee Hood (2013) William McGroarty Elizabeth Kirsten (2012) Rita McNally Jean Kramer (2013) Chou Chou Merrill Helen Lew (2014) Betty Moylan Shirley Radlo (2013) Lisa Paradis Anatoly Rakin (2013) Captain Thomas Keaveney Dorothy Wolfson (2012) Chief of Operations Michael O’Reilly William Wong (2014) William Riley Melvin Ritter ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Michael Shepard Phyllis Baum (2014) Manika Srivastav Judith Chernoff (2014) Herbert Taymor Marjorie Diana Harvey (2012) Ben Vivante Harry Johnson (2014) Joseph Walsh Jean Kramer (2014) Yvette Yelardy Claire Lurie (2014) John Mulhane (2013) COMMISSION FOR THE DISABLED Yolanda Rodriquez (2012) Eileen Connell Berger, Chair (2012) Jean O’Rourke (2012) Richard W. Benka (Selectman) (2014) Jacob Shafran (2013) Barbara Ceconi (2013) Muriel Stark (2012) Keith Duclos (2012) Roberta Winitzer (2012) Sarah Whitman (2015) Eric Jonas (2012) ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY James Miczek (2014) BOARD James Peters (2014) Robert I. Sperber, Co-Chair (2013) Melvin Ritter (2012) Anne Meyers, Co-Chair (2012) Susan Houston (2012) CONSERVATION COMMISSION Kenneth Lewis (2013) Randolph Mieklejohn, Chair (2013) Thomas Nally (2013) Kate Bowditch (2012) Clifford Brown (2013) Gail McClelland Fenton (2013) David Noe (2014) Matthew Garvey (2014) Paul Saner (2014) Werner Lohe (2014) Alden Raine