Person
James T. Dangora
James T. Dangora
| Finance Committee | |
| In Office | 1968 - 1969 |
| Board of Appeals | |
| In Office | 1970 - 1972 |
| School Committee | |
| In Office | 1972 - 1978 |
James T. Dangora is a Billerica attorney who served the town on the Finance Committee, as an alternate member of the Board of Appeals, and for six years on the School Committee, which he chaired. He was appointed to the Finance Committee on December 21, 1968, and resigned on September 17, 1969. In 1970 and 1971 he was treasurer of the town's Drug Action Committee, chaired first by Anne B. Sugden and then by Father Francis Glynn. He was appointed an alternate member of the Board of Appeals on November 30, 1970, and resigned on April 20, 1972, and he also sat on the Town By-Laws Study Committee until he resigned from it on February 26, 1974.
In the town election of 1972 he led the field for School Committee with 2,720 votes, ahead of Suzanne M. McCarthy with 2,355 and Andrew T. Card with 2,160. He served as vice-chairman alongside chairman Charles L. Hallenborg and was chairman in 1974. Re-elected in 1975 with 3,919 votes, again the highest total, he was vice-chairman and then chairman in 1977 and 1978, and he won a third term in 1978 with 2,537 votes, but resigned on September 29, 1978.
He was also a familiar figure at Town Meeting as counsel. At the 1972 meeting he spoke as attorney for the Fire Department in favor of salary increases, and moderator John E. Lecomte asked that Robert Hentz preside over those articles because of his business association with Mr. Dangora. In 1976 he spoke for the Billerica Retailers Association on a proposed sign by-law, and through the 1980s he represented petitioners and landowners on zoning articles, among them a 1985 development he described as similar to the Village Square in Chelmsford, a cluster overlay for thirty-three acres off Nashua Road near Dudley Road in 1988, and, the same year, the Businessmen's Association's support for a change to the business zoning by-law.