SCARBOROUGH — It’s new boss, same as the
old boss on the Scarborough Town Council, where Ron Ahlquist and Judy Roy were
unanimously re-elected chairman and vice chairman, respectively, at the most
recent council meeting, held Nov. 28 at the Maine Veterans’ Home on Route 1.
Roy led the council in
2011. She was selected by her fellow councilors as vice chairwoman in 2012.
Roy sat on the Town Council
for much of the 1990s and returned to the governing body in 2007. Ahlquist,
elected in 2011 to fill the final two years on the term of Councilor Michael
Wood, has served similar short terms, in addition to wining regular elections,
logging 11 of the last 13 years on the council. The town charter limits
councilors to “no more than three consecutive full terms of
office.” Because Ahlquist most recently won election to something less than a
full term, he may be able to sit for another nine years without a break, if he
chooses to run and is elected.
Two new councilors were
sworn in Nov. 28 meeting, along with incumbent Jessica Holbrook, who won a
second term. Retired IBM manager Ed Blaise, 59, beat out local contractor Paul
Andriulli and Maine Medical Center executive Chris Coon to replace Carol
Rancourt, who was forced out of office by term limits. Meanwhile, homemaker
Kate St. Clair, 35, bested retired attorney Bill Donovan to fill the remaining two
years on the term of Karen D’Andrea, who resigned to Aug. 13 to focus on her
nonprofit work.
Appointments to lead the
council’s finance committee, a post now held by Roy, and the ordinance
committee, last chaired by Rancourt, were slated to be made at the Dec. 5
council meeting, which took place after deadline for this week’s Current.
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