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Helping to chart town's new course ; Planning board chairman endorses charter reform adopted last year
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The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
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July 5, 2008
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Braintree
Robert Harnais was excited about charter reform that was about to
radically change the way Braintree does business.
Harnais, a Quincy lawyer, just didn't anticipate playing a role
in what was going to happen.
After former selectman and state representative Joseph Sullivan
was elected the town's first mayor in November, Sullivan's chief of
staff, Peter Morin, approached Harnais regarding possible
appointment to a new planning board.
At the time, Harnais had been a longtime member of the Quincy
planning board and was its chairman.
Harnais, a Braintree resident for nine years, jumped at the
chance to have a say in development issues the town would soon be
facing.
The town council ...
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