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Robert Sheldon, the incumbent, roundly defeated challenger Robert Crane by a vote of 149 to 34 for a three-year term on the Board of Water Commissioners, the governing body of the Sudbury Water District.
The other Water District officials on the ballot in the May 20 election won re-election in uncontested races. Those candidates and their vote totals were: Craig Blake, moderator, 147 votes with 36 blanks; Thomas Travers, treasurer, 155 votes with 27 blanks and one write-in; and Susan O’Connor, clerk, 149 votes with 34 blanks.
The election, held from 3 to 7 p.m., drew 183 voters, who had to be both registered voters in Sudbury and customers of the Water District. The district does not have a count of the total number of registered voters who are also its customers. Sudbury had 14,214 registered voters when the town election was held March 31, but not all are Water District customers.
The Sudbury Water District held its annual meeting after the election, at 7 p.m. All of the articles on the annual meeting warrant, as well as on the warrant for the special meeting embedded within the annual meeting, passed unanimously.
Among the provisions on the annual meeting warrant were approval of the district’s $3,988,455 budget. Other articles included equipment purchases, water main repair and replacement, and maintenance expenses.
The special meeting warrant articles included the creation of a Capital Projects Stabilization Fund Account. Any claim settlement disbursements related to PFAS “forever chemicals” lawsuits the Water District has brought with other plaintiffs will be credited to this account. A separate article transferred $525,000 to that account.
