Name: Lin Jensen
Office Sought: Town Meeting Member Precinct 8
e-mail address: linjensenlex [at] gmail.commichaelschanbacherlexpb [at] gmail.com (
)phone number: 781-861-2925

Community Activities: 

• Lexington resident, active town volunteer, & LPS parent (for 19 years)
• Collaborated on multiple zoning article amendments
• Regular Planning Board meeting participant
• Town Meeting Member, Precinct 8
• Sustainable Lexington Committee member
• LPS Green Teams co-founder & leader
• Clean Heat Lexington Alliance volunteer
• Hastings PTO (2005-2018: co-president, room parent, yearbook and newsletter editor, METCO Family Friends host)

Article 43 on the 2024 Town Warrant is asking if the Town will authorize and request the Select Board to petition the General Court of the Commonwealth for Home Rule Legislation to allow any citizens in the Town of Lexington, who have reached the age of 16 or older, to register and vote in municipal elections within the Town, or to take any action in relative thereto. Would you support this article? Why or why not?

I think the proposal has a lot of merits. The results in municipal elections can have big impacts on the future of the town and beyond, and impacts on the lives of our young people aged 16 and 17. To allow them to begin voting locally before turning 18 will help them learn more about our democratic process. So while I am open to hearing the debates on the Town Meeting floor, as of now I plan to vote yes and applaud the effort by the proponents of the article.