After 37 years in elected office in the Town of Marblehead, Helaine Hazlett has announced she will not be seeking re-election this June.
Hazlett has been a member of the Board of Health for 28 years and has been chair for five consecutive years. Before that, she had been an elected member of the School Committee for nine years.
“When I step down in June from this very large part of my volunteer service to the town I love, I am not giving up my other community work which is meaningful to me,” she said. “I encourage those of you who have the knowledge and expertise in medicine, health care or public health to take out nomination papers to run for the one open seat on the Board of Health.”
Papers can be pulled in the town clerk’s office on March 17.
Board member Tom Massaro also announced that the mental health task force will be evolving into a partnership with Marblehead Counseling Center.
“The task force, in its current structure, had reached its peak,” Massaro said. “The town has a great facility for caring for mental health services, delivering mental health services, and so it’s the request of the task force that the leadership of the board and the leadership of the counseling center come together to try to develop a future where the mental health task force will be much more closely aligned with the counseling center on a day-to-day, patient-to-patient, idea-to-idea basis.”
