Seth Morton, who spent a couple months as acting moderator of the Representative Town Meeting, was elected by the RTM Monday night in a unanimous voice vote to a full one-year term as moderator.
Morton was unopposed for the position and didn’t give a speech, either before or after the voice vote. Monday night’s session was the first with newly elected RTM members after some seats were up for election this November.
Seth Morton, just elected moderator of the Representative Town Meeting, just after Monday night’s meeting.
Morton is a veteran member of the RTM, having sat on it, with occasional interruptions, since the mid-1980s, He is also a former member of the town Board of Selectmen. He works for New York Life Insurance Co.
He’s been a Darien resident since 1973. Morton and his wife, Linda, raised three children, now adults, who all attended Darien schools.
Like many members of the RTM, a body elected in a nonpartisan way and not organized by political party, Morton is a member of one of Darien’s political party governing committees — he’s vice chairman of the Republican Town Committee.
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See also:
RTM Veteran Seth Morton Selected Interim Moderator as Sarah Seelye Resigns (Sept. 13)
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Aside from a 10-minute break after a fire alarm was sounded in Town Hall and the auditorium emptied out into the sidewalks in front of the building, the RTM’s organizing session was short. Town Clerk Donna Rajczewski administered the oath of office to RTM members out on the sidewalk.
Not all positions on the RTM were filled in the elections, and the body currently has 74 members
In a unanimous voice vote, the RTM installed three of its members to an ethics panel: David Bayne of District 5 (a former selectman and the current chairman of the Democratic Town Committee), Thomas Moore of District 3 and Monica McNally of District 2. No one else was nominated for the three seats.
There are two fewer members of the RTM than on the ballot this Election Day. Both of them have moved out of town, so they resigned their positions:
- Anstiss Agnew of District 2 moved to Stamford.
- Werner Domittner of District 4 took a new job in Chicago and moved there.