David A. Gagliardi

David A. Gagliardi has been one of Billerica's steadiest town meeting figures for three decades: a Town Meeting member for Precinct 1 since 1995, longtime chairman of the town meeting's Committee on Rules and of the General By-Law Review Committee, twice chairman of the Finance Committee, a member of the Select Board from 2011 to 2014, and later chairman of the Historic District Commission. He was first elected to Town Meeting in 1995 with 232 votes, and for many years he also served as the election warden in charge of the Precinct 1 polls.

On the Committee on Rules, which reviews the warrant articles before each town meeting, he served on the subcommittee formed in February 1998 to revise the Town Meeting members' handbook; the committee adopted the revised handbook and distributed it to the members at the spring 1999 session. He was elected the committee's vice chairman in 1998 and its chairman in 1999, and he was re-elected chairman each year through 2002, later serving again as vice chairman until he left the committee in 2008. As chairman of the General By-Law Review Committee he took the town's general by-laws through a full revision, reporting to town meeting in 2001, presenting the changes in 2002, when he moved to dissolve the committee with thanks, and leading a second review that came before the meeting in 2008.

He was appointed to the Finance Committee in July 2000 and was its chairman by 2006. In 2008 he reported to town meeting, with slides, on the problems the committee had seen in town buildings and schools on a fact-finding tour, which he warned would need to be addressed in the future. He left the committee in 2010 and in April 2011 was elected to the Select Board at the head of the poll with 2,003 votes. On the board he served as secretary and, in 2013 to 2014, as chairman, and he sat as the board's alternate on the Northern Middlesex Council of Governments. He finished fourth in the election of April 2014 and left the board, and when he ran again in 2019 he finished fourth.

Gagliardi returned to the Finance Committee in 2017 as its vice chairman and soon became chairman again, and as chairman he moved the town's line item budgets at the annual town meetings, among them the budget of $141,340,354 voted in 2017. He also sat on the High School Building Committee and the Water/Sewer Oversight Board, and he has served on the Historic District Commission since 2016, as its chairman by 2024. His photographs of the Billerica Public Library and the gazebo on the Town Common appear in the town's report for fiscal 2022. In January 2025 he was appointed by the Governor to the Housing Authority.

References

1. Billerica Town Report 1995, town election: Town Meeting members, Precinct 1, David A. Gagliardi 232
2. Billerica Town Report 1998, Committee on Rules report: handbook subcommittee including Dave Gagliardi; Gagliardi elected Vice-Chairman
3. Billerica Town Report 1999, Committee on Rules report: revised Town Meeting Handbook adopted; David Gagliardi elected Chairman
4. Billerica Town Report 2000, appointed officers: Finance Committee, David A. Gagliardi, appointed 7/00; General By-Law Review Committee, David Gagliardi, Chairman
5. Billerica Town Report 2002, town meeting: General By-Law Review Committee Chairman David Gagliardi moves to dissolve the committee
6. Billerica Town Report 2006, appointed officers: Finance Committee, David A. Gagliardi, Chairman
7. Billerica Town Report 2008, town meeting: General By-Law Committee Chairman Gagliardi presents the by-law revisions
8. Billerica Town Report 2008, town meeting: Finance Committee Chairman Gagliardi reports on the fact-finding tour of town buildings and schools
9. Billerica Town Report 2011, town election: Selectman, David A. Gagliardi 2,003, Robert B. Accomando 1,867, Paul Marasco 1,616
10. Billerica Town Report 2011, Committee on Rules report: congratulations to Dave Gagliardi on his election to the Board of Selectmen
11. Billerica Town Report 2014, elected officers: Selectmen, David A. Gagliardi, Chairman, term to April 2014
12. Billerica Town Report 2014, town election April 5, 2014: Selectman, John J. Piscatelli 3,163, Daniel Burns 2,860, Robert B. Accomando 1,714, David A. Gagliardi 1,650
13. Billerica Town Report 2016, appointed officers: Historic District Commission, David Gagliardi
14. Billerica Town Report 2017, town meeting: Finance Committee Chairman Gagliardi moves the line item budget of $141,340,354
15. Billerica Town Report 2019, town election April 6, 2019: Selectmen, Kimberly J. Conway 2,717, Daniel Burns 2,533, George Simolaris Jr. 2,486, David A. Gagliardi 2,042