Candidates for Planning Board, the School Committee, and Select Board spoke at our Candidate Forum on May 4. Click above to watch a video of this event.

This Voter Guide contains information about candidates for Town-Wide Offices as well as for Town Meeting Members.

Click on a link below to read about the candidates for each office.

This page will be updated as candidates provide their information.

There are six candidates for two 3-year terms.

W. Wrestling Brewster
39 Forge Avenue
wwb@bpcs.us

Relevant Qualifications: I have been on town meeting for 10 years and a member of COPC for 5. I have seen all phases of our government. I have proven I can work will all parties to respectful discussions and consensus solutions to move Plymouth forward. I have a good working relationship with the town manager. The director of finance. The director of planning. The DPW director. The environmental/marine director. The chair of fincom. I know how our government works. And I want to create a cohesive group of all

Nonprofit/Town Committee Experience: Town meeting 10 years , Committee of Precinct Chairs 6 years. Harbor Committee 9 years

Top Three Priorities: Planning, planning and planning for the future! Every board, department and resident is a stakeholder and should have buy in. Where do we want to be in 20 years? Once we know that, then we can determine where our priorities, efforts and budgets need to be for ten, five, one years and tomorrow. With knowledge like this, we can create efficiencies and hopefully slow down the rise in taxes. We also need to get the selectboard back to its core rules of conduct and civility, and not only come together as a strong focused board, but lead others by example.

Kevin Canty
20 Saw Mill Drive
Kevinbcanty@gmail.com

Relevant Qualifications: I am a lifelong Plymouth resident, having lived here for 37 years. I have worked as a local attorney for the past 10 years. And my 9 years of experience on the Advisory & Finance Committee mean I have an established track record of public service in this community and detailed knowledge of the Town’s finances and the workings of our government. I have the legal skills, financial knowledge, and community service experience that Plymouth needs on its Select Board.

Nonprofit/Town Committee Experience: I have worked on the Advisory & Finance Committee for the past 9 years, serving as Chair for the past 4 years.

Top Three Priorities: Implementing smart & balanced development throughout Plymouth ; Focusing on strategic planning so Plymouth can start being proactive and stop being reactive; Reducing the burden on residential taxpayers by attracting new commercial taxpayers to Plymouth

Vedna Heywood
9 Nathan Lane
Vklacombe@gmail.com

Relevant Qualifications: Twice Elected School Committee member with experience in policy, negotiations, strategic planning, programming, public health, emergency planning and multi-million dollar budgets. Extensive board and community service experience. Skills: Critical thinking, Decision making, community outreach, governance, long term planning, team player, data gathering and analysis

Nonprofit/Town Committee Experience: Plymouth School Committee , Chairperson of No Place for Hate for 3yrs and member for 11yrs ,Volunteer for Hope Floats(Kingston) Group Leader for parents of Perinatal-Early Childhood Loss (2013-present), Board Member for Southeastern Massachusetts Division of March of Dimes (2012-2013), Plymouth Area Board Member for the Dept of Children & Families 2011-2015, Foster Care Reviewer(Plymouth) for the Dept of Children & Families 2012-2016, Member of DCF Foster Care Review Practice Committee 2013-2015, Executive Board of the Plymouth League of Women Voters 2018-2022 , Plymouth H.E.A.L Communities 2019-2020, State Board Director of League of Women Voters Ma 2020-2022, BID Plymouth Community Benefits Advisory Committee since 2020, Advisory Board of BID Hospital in Plymouth-2022, Brockton’s Health Equity Task Force member 2020-2021, Massachusetts Haitian American Chamber of Commerce Board Member 2018-2020, Vice-Chair 2019-2020

Top Three Priorities:

1.Solicit community input on long-term projects, to include investments in infrastructure, and collaborate with stake holders to identify immediate areas of economic need.

2. Strategic Planning

3.Revenue Enhancement and review of operating and capital budget to identify opportunities to reduce long term costs

4. Emergency planning / public health

5. Continued sustainability and water conservation strategies.

6. Improve and enhance communication and collaboration with residents and other town boards and communities.

Everett Malaguti
6 South Cherry Street
emal19@aol.com

Relevant Qualifications:

Nonprofit/Town Committee Experience:

Top Three Priorities:

Frank Mand
20 Chilton Street
dogd@aol.com

Relevant Qualifications: I have multiple degrees, including a Masters in Business Administration from Northeastern University, and a B.A. in English Literature from Boston College. I have 20 years of experience as a journalist, including over a decade with the Old Colony Memorial during which I wrote hundreds of stories on almost every Board and Committee in town, from the Select Board to the Cultural Committee, to the Conservation Committee, the Planning Board and others. During my time on the ‘Old Colony’ I received numerous awards, including being named Gatehouse Media’s writer of the year, and Innovator of the Year by the New England News and Print Association. All of these experiences have added to my appreciation for the natural resources of this community, and fueled my desire to see the community’s best characteristics preserved – including the small-town, no big-box store feel of our historic downtown, the surprising pastoral byways of Chiltonville, the unique vista and unspoiled woodlands of the Pine Hill, and of course our amazing, yet vulnerable sole-source aquifer. All of these experiences have also whetted my appetite for finding solutions to our economic challenges, solutions that don’t sacrifice our historic and environmental legacy. All of these experiences contributed to my desire to have a direct impact on the town I loved, leading to my election to both the Charter Commission and the Planning Board and my desire to serve as a Select Board member.

Nonprofit/Town Committee Experience: I have an extensive history of community involvement, including (in rough chronological order): serving as President of the South Plymouth Little League; as a Board Member of the Plymouth Task Force to End Homelessness; creating “365 Sunrises” (a year-long, pre-dawn photographic essay about Plymouth); creating CommuniTREE (ornaments for the Town Tree depicting town non-profits and volunteers); Walking Home (a fundraising walk from California to Texas); and a decade as a member and now Vice President of the Southeastern Massachusetts Pine Barrens Alliance (SEMPBA), whose goal is to conserve the globally-rare Massachusetts Coastal Pine Barrens ecoregion. As Vice President of SEMPBA I have written or co-written over a half-dozen grants, with a value of approximately $1,000,000. SEMPBA, I should note, doesn’t retain those funds: it gives them to established conservation organizations such as Manomet, Mass Audubon, the Town of Plymouth and others who have the expertise and education to achieve the goals of our organization.

Top Three Priorities: “My first goal will be refrain from what used to be called ‘tunnel vision.’ This town is far too complex to become fixated on three, short-term goals. I understand why that is appealing: achieving short-term goals allows elected officials to claim success. I would argue though that there are at least 100 worthy, short-term goals I might apply myself to, and that to a large degree those goals are inter-related. Consider, for example, the goal of protecting our sole-source aquifer:

• Ensuring that we protect our natural resources, especially water, enables us to offer new businesses the assurance that they will not be left high and dry. • A plan for water conservation will reduce the need for a new multi-million dollar municipal well and consequently impacts the tax rate. • Preserving the land around a potential new well site slows growth in that area.
• A long-range plan for preserving key open-space parcels will allow us to knit together the dozens of disconnected trails, town preserves, state parks and forests, creating an ecotourism hotspot.
• Increasing our capacity to ‘entertain’ hikers, bikers, birdwatchers, kayakers and others leads to longer stays, more meals in restaurants, more meals-tax money and so on.

A Master Plan is not in and of itself a goal, but it is key to achieving many of our most important community goals. While we began moving toward a new Master Plan almost two years ago if I am elected to the Select Board I want to see that process move immediately into high gear. Finally, I sincerely believe that the divisiveness, the polarization, and the mean-spiritedness that are so apparent at the national level, has seeped into our cultural aquifer and needs to be addressed. There is certainly enough work for five, perhaps even seven Select Board members to do, without taking on the task of helping restore a sense of community, but that’s what I would hope to do. In large part that’s what I have tried to do in the many non-profits that I have engaged with during my 40 years in Plymouth.”

Richard Quintal
46 Nicks Rock Rd
dickquintal@comcast.net

Relevant Qualifications:

Nonprofit/Town Committee Experience:

Top Three Priorities:

There are two uncontested seats.

Carl Donaldson
5 Smith Terrace
carl.donaldson1973@gmail.com

Running for a 5-year term.

Relevant Qualifications:  Mastersin City Planning

Nonprofit/Town Committee Experience: Master Plan Committee

Top three priorities:

Housing and development
Business development,
Protection of town natural resource

David Peck
16 Overlook Road
Davidbpeck@aol.com

Running for a 1-year term.

Relevant Qualifications: I am a retired Architect and Planner. My career was 35 years as Director of Facility Planning at Children's Hospital in Boston.

Nonprofit/Town Committee Experience: Chairman of Town Building Committee; Vice Chairman of the Zoning Board of Appeals; Member of Charter Commission; Town Meeting member Precinct 4

Top Three Priorities: Number 1: Advocating for the support of Fall Town Meeting for the creation of a new Master Plan for Plymouth, last updated in 2006.

Number 2: Protecting open and undisturbed space through selectively allowing addition density and/or height in projects located in already disturbed area and in existing village centers.

Number 3: Advocating for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU) as addressing one of the Town's need for more affordable housing options.

There are four candidates for two 3-year terms.

Michelle Badger
35 Dorothy Dr
michellelbadger@gmail.com

Relevant Qualifications:It has been an honor to serve on the Plymouth School Committee for the last almost 12 years. As a product of our school system, I made the decision to run at 26 years old to give back to the Plymouth Public Schools (PPS) and the Town. I graduated from Plymouth South in 2002 and went on to study history and International affairs at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. While at Sweet Briar, I started working in fundraising and after graduation worked for the College for a couple of years. I left Virginia to come back to Massachusetts to attend graduate School at Suffolk University, where I received two Masters Degrees: one in Public Administration and the other in Political Science. During my time at Suffolk, I continued to work in Advancement which continually gave me the opportunity to get to know students and to learn first hand the skill sets and issues they were encountering in college. The frustration from the students and skills they were lacking as undergraduates led me to want to get more involved to hopefully help younger students in some way (I must note none of the students that I worked with came from Plymouth). When a School Committee seat opened, I saw it as an opportunity for me to give back to my community. Since then I have had the opportunity to specifically work to reevaluate the emergency plans for the district as part of the Safety Committee; fight to get a liaison from the School Committee to the SEPAC; serve as the liaison and chair of the Pilgrim Area Collaborative; push the administration to evaluate and overhaul the elementary health curriculum; worked with the administration for years to get a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee established; help guide the district through the pandemic and many other priorities. My passion for what education provides to students and their futures is what drives me. As a student who struggled early on myself, it is my hope that I can be a voice for the Town of Plymouth to make sure we are honoring and celebrating who our students are and where they thrive and helping them find their passion. I bring to the Committee a passion for education, my personal experience in our district, and my willingness to have a conversation as well as research to find out more about an issue being presented to the Committee by the administration or the community.

Nonprofit/Town Committee Experience:I am involved in a number of organizations locally and for Sweet Briar College (my undergraduate alma mater). Local: Plymouth Fragment Society, Board Member (October 2018-present); DreamRide Plymouth LLC - Board Member (October 2018-August 2022); Pan Mass Challenge Kids Ride Planning Team - Plymouth (January 2015-June 2019); Plymouth Public Schools Alumni Association, Chair (May 2018-present); Vice-Chair (2013-2018); Plymouth School Committee (May 2011-present); Plymouth No Place For Hate Committee (2010-present); Pilgrim Area Collaborative (October 2015-present); Antiquarian Society, Fundraising Committee (FY22), Nomination Committee (2021-present). Sweet Briar College: Sweet Briar College Alumnae Alliance (equivalent to Alumnae Association), Operations Co-Chair (July 2022- Present), Class Leadership Co-chair (July 2019-June 2021), Admissions Ambassador Co-Chair (July 2016-June 2019); Sweet Briar College Boston Area Alumnae Club, Chair (January 2009-present); Sweet Briar College Class of 2006, Class Agent (May 2006-present), Co-President (May 2016 -present).

Robert P. Morgan
8 Peter Road

robertpmorgan64@gmail.com

Relevant Qualifications: I have been a tax payer in the town of Plymouth since July 2000. I have a son who is attending the Plymouth Public Schools who will graduate on June 3rd. I have been a member of the Plymouth School Committee 2009-2012 and 2014 until present. Through the years of service I have gained knowledge and experience. I have taken the required course for Massachusetts School Committee members.

Nonprofit/Town Committee Experience: I served 9 years on the West Plymouth Steering Committee, the last 3 years as its chair. I served 1 year as a town meeting member representing precinct 11. I served 1.5 years on the Advisory and Finance Committee. I currently serve on the town Building Committee as the School Committee designee. I am also veteran who served 8 years in the Massachusetts Army National Guard.

Michael Spellman
6 Debbie Court

Dan Sullivan
38 Cape Cod Avenue
3dspublick@gmail.com

There are three openings in each precinct for 3-year terms.

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