“It’s important to have people on the board who are really familiar with town government,” Felix said. He said that his experience has prepared him for the role of select board member, and if elected, he will “most likely” run for reelection in May. It’s that “people don’t want to serve on boards because they don’t want to get yelled at.”ĭespite having suffered from that sort of hostility, Felix said he still wants to serve. “It’s not an issue of pay or housing for volunteer boards,” Felix said. According to a report in the select board’s most recent meeting packet, there are 33 vacant positions on 16 of the town’s boards - or roughly a quarter of all existing positions. “I know of five to six town staff members we have lost because of the town’s current environment,” he said.įelix believes the problem affects volunteer positions, too.

He believes it is a root cause of a staffing crisis that has emptied the town of full-time municipal staff members in the finance, health, building, and administrative departments. The lack of pleasantries doesn’t just make meetings uncomfortable to sit through, Felix said. It has created a really negative environment.” “Volunteers and town staff have been aggressively and nastily addressed by people in town. “I’ve been yelled at during a lot of meetings,” Felix said. He has also served on the board of the nonprofit Wellfleet Community Forum for nine years and has been part of the county-appointed Cape Cod Water Protection Collaborative for nine years. He was on the wastewater committee for 13 years and the board of water commissioners and the dredging task force, each for six years.

He has served on several boards and committees since he moved to Wellfleet in 2000. He says he decided to run for select board to change its “tenor and tone.” (Photo courtesy Curt Felix)įelix has seen it firsthand, he said. Felix is running against Timothy Sayre, the only candidate to have submitted nomination papers for the position.įelix said he decided to run because he wants to “change the tenor and tone” of town board and committee meetings, which he said have suffered from increasing discourtesy in recent years. WELLFLEET - Seasoned civic volunteer and Mosquito Squad owner Curt Felix wants a seat at the select board’s table because, he says, etiquette is lacking there.įelix announced a write-in campaign last week to replace Kathleen Bacon, who will step down from the board after the special town election on Sept.

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