FAIRFIELD, Conn. The lame duck period is over. First Selectman Michael Tetreau and the rest of the towns newly elected officials took their oaths of office Monday night in a ceremony at Fairfield Warde High School. In his inauguration speech, Tetreau called upon his fellow officials to work together.
Weve been charged with putting together the best plan for not any one segment of our community, but for every segment of our community, Tetreau said. We need to act like were one town, one team.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal swore in Tetreau and his running mate, Selectman Cristin McCarthy Vahey. While spending time in what he called his second home, Blumenthal thanked not only the gathered winners but also those who may have come up a few votes short, but who put their names and their necks on the line, and did the work and took the risk for democracy.
A total of 83 new and returning officials took their oaths Monday night. The list includes Town Clerk Betsy Browne, Vahey and fellow Selectmen James Walsh, the entire Representative Town Meeting and the Board of Assessment Appeals, all seven constables and portions of the Board of Education, the Town Plan and Zoning Commission, the Zoning Board of Appeals and the Board of Finance. Tetreau said the group is an example of the one thing that impressed me most about Fairfield.
Its the volunteerism, Tetreau said. Its the example you all are setting here tonight. But its every board, every commission, every sports team, every PTA. Its literally hundreds of thousands of hours that make our town run and make it special.
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