Editing Arlington, Massachusetts (section)

== Government ==
[[File:Arlington Town Hall.jpg|thumb|Arlington Town Hall]]
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|+ '''Historical county designation: [[Middlesex County, Massachusetts|Middlesex County]]'''
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! align=right | [[Court clerk|Clerk of Courts]]:
| [[Michael A. Sullivan (politician)|Michael A. Sullivan]]
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! align=right | [[District attorney|District Attorney]]:
| [[Marian T. Ryan|Marian Ryan]]
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! align=right | [[Recorder of Deeds|Register of Deeds]]:
| Richard P. Howe, Jr. (North at Lowell)<br /> Maria Curtatone (South at Cambridge)
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! align=right | [[Probate|Register of Probate]]:
| Tara E. DeCristofaro
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! align=right | [[Sheriff|County Sheriff]]:
| Peter Koutoujian
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! colspan=2 | State government
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! align=right | [[Massachusetts House of Representatives|State Representative(s)]]:
| [[Dave Rogers (Massachusetts politician)|Dave Rogers]] (D) <br /> [[Sean Garballey]] (D)
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! align=right | [[Massachusetts Senate|State Senator(s)]]:
| [[Cindy Friedman|Cindy F. Friedman]] (D)
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! align=right | [[Massachusetts Governor's Council|Governor's Councilor(s)]]:
| Mara Dolan
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! colspan=2 | Federal government
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! align=right | [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative(s)]]:
| [[Katherine Clark]] (D), ([[United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts District 5|5th District]])
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! align=right | [[United States Senate|U.S. Senators]]:
| [[Elizabeth Warren]] (D), [[Ed Markey]] (D)
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Arlington's [[executive branch]] consists of an elected five-member [[select board]]. The day-to-day operations are handled by a [[city manager|town manager]] hired by the select board.
The [[legislative branch]] is a representative town meeting,<ref name="arlingtonma.gov">{{cite web | url=https://www.arlingtonma.gov/town-governance/town-meeting | title=2022 Town Meeting &#124; Town of Arlington }}</ref> presided over by the town moderator, and is made up of 252 town meeting members.<ref name="arlingtonma.gov"/> Twelve town meeting members are elected to staggered three year terms from each of the 21 [[electoral precinct|precincts]]. Article LXXXIX section 8 of the Massachusetts Constitution permits towns with a population greater than 12,000 to adopt a city form of government.<ref>{{cite web |title=Article LXXXIX (Home Rule Amendment) |url=https://www.mma.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/article89_0.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812155004/https://www.mma.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/article89_0.pdf |archive-date=August 12, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> The town of Arlington meets the population requirement to become a city, but has not done so, in part because it would lose its ability to engage citizens in local government under the representative town meeting form of government. Annual town meetings begin in April on the first Monday after Patriots' Day, and are held two nights a week until all items on the town warrant are resolved, and generally last three to four weeks.

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!Select board
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* Stephen W. DeCourcey
* Lenard T. Diggins
* Eric D. Helmuth (chair)
* John V. Hurd (vice-chair)
* Diane M. Mahon
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In April 2021, Arlington voted to become the third municipality in the United States to recognize [[Polyamory|polyamorous]] domestic partnerships, following adjacent cities of Somerville and Cambridge.<ref>{{Cite web|date=April 30, 2021|title=Arlington Recognizes Polyamorous Domestic Partnerships|url=https://patch.com/massachusetts/arlington/arlington-recognizes-polyamorous-domestic-partnerships|access-date=July 12, 2021|website=Arlington, MA Patch|language=en}}</ref>
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!School committee
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* Kirsi C. Allison-Ampe (chair)
* Liz Exton (secretary)
* Laura Gitelson
* Leonard J. Kardon
* Jane P. Morgan
* Paul Schlichtman (vice-chair)
* Jeffrey D. Thielman
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!Other town-wide elected officials
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* Juli Brazile, town clerk
* Greg Christiana, town moderator
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