Ridgefield, CT, December 14, 2024 – The Ridgefield Democratic Town Committee is seeking candidates to fill a vacant seat as a member of the Town’s Inland Wetlands Board, which is an elective board. The vacancy was created by the resignation of Inland Wetlands Board member Isaac Flattau. The deadline for sending an expression of interest to the DTC has been extended by four weeks to January 6.
The Ridgefield Town Charter requires that a vacancy on an elective board be filled with a person who is a member of the same political party as the party on whose row the board member filling that seat was most recently elected. Since Mr. Flattau was appointed to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Benjamin Nissim from the Inland Wetlands Board, and since Mr. Nissim was elected as a Democrat for a term running from November 2023 to November 2027, it is required that the person appointed to fill this vacancy be a registered Democrat. The person who is appointed will fill the seat until the November 2025 municipal election. In the November 2025 election, a candidate for that IWB seat will be elected by Ridgefield voters to serve the final two years of the term to which Mr. Nissim was elected.
The DTC requests that any registered Democrat in Ridgefield, who may be interested in serving as a member of the Inland Wetlands Board, send a statement of interest as well as a resume or biography (or equivalent) to recruitment@ridgefielddems.org, by 1:00pm on Monday, January 6, so that a DTC subcommittee may interview potential candidates and the DTC can send an endorsement to the Board of Selectpersons in a timely manner for its consideration.
Interested persons are advised that the Board of Selectpersons will conduct its own official selection process for filling the vacancy, including an interview, and will have its own application process. The Board of Selectpersons’ process is separate from the DTC’s process. The DTC’s endorsement is advisory to the Board of Selectpersons, which is the governmental body that will make the decision on filling the vacancy.
