Wallingford Voter registration / special registration session

WALLINGFORD — The Wallingford registrars of voters will have a special registration session from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, in the registrars office, Wallingford Town Hall, Room 211. Voters are reminded that only the town clerk can provide applications for absentee ballots, which must be returned to the town clerk.

If you're not registered at all Here's a link to the voter registration form - you can mail or bring in to the office:

http://www.town.wallingford.ct.us/images/customer-files/CT_Voter_Registration_Form.pdf

It must be postmarked by Oct 22. Otherwise you can come into the office in-person by Oct 29th.

TOWN COUNCIL CANDIDATE FORUM PART ONE - Wallingford Candidates forum – Election 2013

WALLINGFORD — The Wallingford Community Women’s Club held the 2013 candidates forum on Tuesday, Oct. 15 in the Town Council Chambers of the Wallingford Town Hall.

Reporters from local newspapers, in addition to students from Sheehan High School, addressed questions to the candidates.

This session was the Town Council Candidate forum PART ONE

TOWN COUNCIL CANDIDATE FORUM PART TWO - Wallingford Candidates forum – Election 2013

WALLINGFORD — The Wallingford Community Women’s Club held the 2013 candidates forum on Tuesday, Oct. 15 in the Town Council Chambers of the Wallingford Town Hall.

Reporters from local newspapers, in addition to students from Sheehan High School, addressed questions to the candidates.

This session was the Town Council Candidate forum PART TWO

Wallingford Candidates forum – Election 2013

WALLINGFORD — The Wallingford Community Women’s Club announces the upcoming 2013 candidates forum on Tuesday, Oct. 15, and Thursday, Oct. 17, in the Town Council Chambers of the Wallingford Town Hall.

Reporters from local newspapers, in addition to students from Sheehan High School, will address questions to the candidates. The Tuesday sessions, at 7 and 8 p.m., are for the 13 candidates for the Town Council. At 9 p.m. the two mayoral candidates will be questioned. Thursday’s sessions, at 7 and 8 p.m., are for the 12 candidates for the Board of Education.

The sessions will be taped and available for viewing shortly afterward on government access channel 20. The public is welcome to attend all sessions.

Absentee Ballot Application English and Spanish

Application for Absentee Ballot: This application for absentee ballot may be downloaded by an individual for: (1) the individual's own use; (2) the use of a member of the individual's immediate family; or (3) the use of a designee of the applicant. Any person who will distribute five (5) or more absentee ballot applications to persons other than the individual's immediate family must register with and obtain forms from the Town Clerk of the municipality where such forms will be distributed before distributing such forms. For more detailed information please review the Absentee Ballot Fact Sheet and Absentee Ballot Application Process document.

 

English:

• English Language Application for Absentee Ballot Form
• English Language Application Form for Referendum Only
• English Language Emergency Application for Absentee Ballot

 

Spanish:

• Spanish Language Application for Absentee Ballot Form
• Spanish Language Application Form for Referendum Only
• Spanish Language Emergency Application for Absentee Ballot

Wallingford Community Women Candidate Forum for the 2013 election

The Wallingford Community Women will be sponsoring the Candidate Forum for the 2013 election on Tuesday October 15 and Thursday October 17 in the Town Council chambers at Wallingford Town Hall

TUESDAY FROM 7-8 (first session) / 8-9 (second session) TOWN COUNCIL CANDIDATES

TUESDAY FROM 9-10 - MAYORAL CANDIDATES

THURSDAY 7-8 (first session) / 8-9 (second session) BOARD OF EDUCATION CANDIDATES

The public is invited and encouraged to attend.

I am planning to get the recordings of the forum and post them here on the blog as soon as they are available.

Councilors spar over meeting agenda

The Wednesday October 9, 2013 issue of the Record Journal carried a story titled Councilors spar over meeting agenda.

The article basically outlines the current situation where Town Councilor Nick Economopoulos was denied the opportunity to place an item on the agenda for Tuesday’s Town Council meeting.

The Chairman of the Town Council Robert Parisi and the Vice Chair Vincent Cervoni indicated they would not add the item to the agenda – their reasoning was that nothing new was to be added to the discussion.

If you look at the Town Council rules of procedure at the top of the article the reasons available to decline an item “The Council Chairman can grant exceptions to this rule, depending on the length of a given Town Council agenda.” I read this as a compound reason – Length is the reason for the exception.

Tuesday’s meeting had a normal amount of items and we were wrapped up around 9PM; we’ve had meetings that have gone longer with less items and had other meetings with more items in general.

This goes back to the need for a more transparent local Government. More on that soon.

I will also follow up more on item 4 above as well:

”Public input on individual agenda items will be received during the discussion of the specific item, after members of the Council have had an opportunity to review and discuss the item. Individuals wishing to speak to individual agenda items will be required to address their questions or comments to the Council Chairman and limit his/ her speaking time to a total of three minutes.”

This rule has been specifically and intentionally ignored on a number of occasions and the public was not allowed to speak.

Wallingford turnout for local elections since 2001; updated for 2013 results

2001
Town of Wallingford total number of names on official check list: 25,635    
Town of Wallingford total number of names checked as having voted: 11,036
Town of Wallingford turnout percentage: 43.1%

2003
Town of Wallingford total number of names on official check list: 24,825    
Town of Wallingford total number of names checked as having voted: 12,389
Town of Wallingford turnout percentage: 49.9%

2005
Town of Wallingford total number of names on official check list: 26,718    
Town of Wallingford total number of names checked as having voted: 12,719
Town of Wallingford turnout percentage: 47.6%

2007
Town of Wallingford total number of names on official check list: 25,461    
Town of Wallingford total number of names checked as having voted: 11,624
Town of Wallingford turnout percentage: 45.7%

2009
Town of Wallingford total number of names on official check list: 24,870    
Town of Wallingford total number of names checked as having voted: 8,850
Town of Wallingford turnout percentage: 35.6%

2011  
Town of Wallingford total number of names on official check list: 24,731    
Town of Wallingford total number of names checked as having voted: 9,783
Town of Wallingford turnout percentage: 39.5%

2013  
Town of Wallingford total number of names on official check list: 25,256    
Town of Wallingford total number of names checked as having voted: 11,163
Town of Wallingford turnout percentage: 44.2%