01940 Spring 2022 V4_Reduced

An exceeder
of expectations
BY ANNE MARIE TOBIN
SPRING 2022 | 15
Let's just say that a decision
made by the town's Select
Board a little more than three
years ago has exceeded all
expectations.
When town Conservation Administrator
Betty Adelson retired in 2018, the
priority for her successor fell on finding
someone who could help ensure that some
of Lynnfield's most precious assets — open
land and trees — would be preserved in
perpetuity.
Enter Emilie Cademartori.
It didn't take long after her February
2019 hiring for town officials to realize that
Cademartori's experience in both planning
(she spent nine years as Wenham's town
planner) and conservation presented a
unique opportunity to merge the planning
and conservation departments.
Eight months later, Cademartori became
the town's first director of planning and
conservation.
"All of my education was in environmental
science so consolidating both
departments made sense in that I can apply
my science background into the planning
process, kind of a blend of two skills," said
Cademartori. "It only made sense. The
beauty is that compared to two departments,
when we were in individual silos, now there
is better communication. Information is
centralized, which allows us to give complete
answers when residents call the Select
Board. Before, we just didn't have full
knowledge of each side of the puzzle."
Town Administrator Rob Dolan, who
proposed the merger, said it was clear from
EXCEEDER, continued on page 16
Emilie Cademartori, director of planning &
conservation for Lynnfield's Conservation
Commission, fought to save Willis Woods.
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