Andover voters won’t have a chance to weigh in with their opinions on the form of local government after the select board declined on Monday to place them on the ballot in next year’s local election.
There was no second to select board member Kevin Coffey’s motion to place the multipart question on the ballot.
The three parts of the nonbinding question were aimed at “taking the pulse” of whether voters wanted to change the Town’s form of government, Kathleen Grant, the petitioner, said. Voters would have been asked if they wanted to switch to a representative form of Town government, a city council with appointed city manager form of government, or a city council with elected mayor form of government.
Grant is part of a separate effort to get a ballot question that would form a charter commission to do a complete review of the Town’s charter, which was adopted in 1958. She said the nonbinding questions she presented Monday could be used to inform the charter commission if it is successfully formed.
“It would give real time answers from the real residents that live here,” Grant said. She could still get the questions on the ballot by submitting a petition with signatures from 10 percent of registered voters.