SWAMPSCOTT — Swampscott native and biomedical engineer Stefanie Neumann is running for the Select Board in the annual town election set for April 25.
“I hope to apply my sense of equity and my analytic skills to the issues facing our community in order to find practical, economical and commonsense solutions,” Neumann said.
A first-time candidate for office, she has been a volunteer in Swampscott as a high school English and Spanish tutor, as well as helping the town treasurer’s office develop financial software for the department.
Neumann is looking to follow her family’s history of civic engagement in the town.
Her mother, Clarice, helped get the Fish House on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and was active in the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) program in the 1960s.
Neumann’s father, Gerhard, ran the General Electric plant in Lynn, and helped persuade the town authority not to build high-rises after the New Ocean House burned down in 1969.
“I believe in transparency and open communication,” Neumann said. “Taxpayers have a right to know how their hard-earned money is being spent, and how to ensure their opinions about those expenditures are being successfully communicated to the powers that be.”
One of her priorities among the many issues Swampscott faces as a town is to help change the clear lack of civility and decorum at the Select Board. She will help to ensure that will happen.
