Meet Mattapoisett Select Board candidate Nicole Doyon Lynch

MATTAPOISETT — Nicole Doyon Lynch wants to use her sales and leadership experience to support Mattapoisett as a Select Board member.

Lynch is among six candidates on the ballot for three open seats on the Select Board, one vacated by former chair Tyler Macalister as he runs for Congress and two newly added this year. 

“I'm running as everyone's neighbor,” Lynch said. “I'm running for their families, for my family, my husband's family, they're all still in town.”

She said affordable housing is a serious concern for Mattapoisett, and wants to find ways to keep residents in town while encouraging more housing options. 

“We want to maintain local control as it pertains to what we approve for this town, and the state is on a mission to create more housing in general,” Lynch said.  "I've talked to town officials and others, and there are some ideas of how we can keep local control, but encourage additional housing.”

Lynch said as a Select Board member she would be “vigilant” about the town’s budget and balance costly projects with limited available funds. She said it’s important that projects and updates to infrastructure are done “as affordably as possible.”

Her time in the business world, where she has held various sales and director positions for packaging companies, has taught her the importance of relationships.

She compared town government to setting up new divisions of a company or forging a sales partnership, and said in each situation the goal is to show everyone why they are needed when accomplishing a goal. 

“For these organizations’ relationships to thrive and be sustainable, there has to be value in it for everyone, and that's how I would approach government as well,” Lynch said. 

Lynch said she likes to take a fair but results-driven approach to leadership positions, and sees involving people as the best way to obtain those results. 

If elected to the Select Board, she said she wants to increase communication between the town and residents and encourage people to participate in local government. She said she would act as a “conduit” for the information and ideas involved in decisions and present them to residents so they can be informed when it comes time to vote. 

“I really like people to feel part of the process, feel that they can have an impact on things — in this case, town matters — but also that we stay constantly focused on results,” Lynch said. “Not bureaucracy, not gridlock, but results.”