MALDEN — The November election will bring more new faces to the city government than any race in recent memory.
The city’s 2018 Inaugural Ceremony will be held on Tuesday at Malden High School at 6 p.m.
Two first-time City Councilors and three new School Committee members will be sworn in along with the returning incumbents on the Council and school board.
The new members joining the Council include first-time Councilor-at-Large Stephen Winslow, a former School Committee member, and a political newcomer, Ward 6 Councilor David Camell.
Winslow is a former two-term Ward 6 School Committee member who ran for his first citywide office. He topped incumbent David D’Arcangelo for the third at-large seat. Winslow has been an advocate for the Bike to the Sea, an effort since the 1990s to create a trail free of cars from the Malden and Everett to the beaches in Revere, Lynn and Nahant. That dream is now close to reality as portions of the Northern Strand Trail are under construction.
Camell was a candidate in the Ward 6 Councilor race when incumbent Neil Kinnon resigned his post in June. Kinnon emerged as a finalist for the Malden City Treasurer’s post, although another candidate was chosen last month.
Camell then won the seat for the two-year term in November. He was sworn in a day after the election and took part in one of the key Council votes of the 2017 year, a decision on the Treasurer’s post. Camell voted for the eventual winner, former MBTA financial officer Jonathan Davis, over the man he replaced on the Council, Kinnon, to break a previous 5-5 tie.
Camell defeated Ward 6 School Committee member Jerry Leone in the Ward 6 Council election. Colleen Leon won Leone’s former Ward 6 School Committee seat running unopposed and is one of three first-time School Committee members being sworn in.
Robert McCarthy Jr. won by two votes and survived a recount over incumbent Ward 2 School Committeeman Emmanuel Marsh. It marked the second election in two tries where a first-term Ward 2 School Committee member was voted out of office.
McCarthy will be sworn in along with a third newcomer, Ward 3 School Committee member-elect Jennifer Spadafora, who won a decisive victory in November.
Other Councilors being sworn into new terms are reelected incumbents Debbie DeMaria and Craig Spadafora, both at-large; Peg Crowe (Ward 1), Paul Condon (Ward 2), John Matheson (Ward 3), Ryan O’Malley (Ward 5), Neal Anderson (Ward 7) and Jadeane Sica (Ward 8).
Other School Committee incumbents being sworn in are Michael Drummey (Ward 1), Leonard Iovino (Ward 4), Tara Beardsley (Ward 5), Catherine Bordonaro (Ward 7) and John Froio (Ward 8).
Malden Mayor Gary Christenson is in the midst of his second four-year term, reelected unchallenged in 2015 and not up for reelection until 2019.
The Malden High School Choral Arts Society, the Malden High School Band and Wah Lum Kung Fu & Tai Chi Academy will perform at the inaugural ceremony.
