Matthew Poirer—School Board Profile

Matthew Poirer—School Board Profile

New member Matthew Poirer might be considered the "consumer's representative" on the Randolph School Board. His family will be consuming school services for a long time:

Molly is in the third grade.

Miah is in the second grade.

And twins Mackenzie and Mary-Kate are in separate classes in the first grade.

Poirer told the Herald that, indeed, his interest in the school board position came because of his kids.

"I really like the school," he explained—including the building, the teachers, and the administrators in his approval. "I just thought I'd like to be part of that."

A New Hampshire native, Poirer moved to Randolph five years ago from the Concord, N.H. area. The move was partly to take a job with Cassella Solid Waste, Inc. and partly, he said, because he thought Randolph was a good place to raise a family.

He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1991 as an engineering major, and engineering has been his life ever since. He worked four years in Boston, but because he refused to live there he commuted daily from Concord. Then he got a job with Sanborn Head & Associates in the Concord area.

After moving to Randolph to work for Casella, he convinced Casella to make the job a contractural one, instead of in-house. He opened an office of Sanborn Head in Randolph on Merchants Row and seeded it with the Casella business. Since then the office has grown to three engineers and has larger quarters at the intersection of Routes 12 and 12A. Casella still accounts for most of the business, but the company has other clients as well.

He lives on Meadow Lane with the four youngsters and his wife Amy. They were high school sweethearts at age 16, he disclosed, though she is a native Vermonter from Ludlow.

Poirer began attending school board meetings a couple of months before his election and has attended two since then. He's impressed at how much there is to learn.

"There are a lot of people doing a lot of work for the school system," he said. "There's a lot to know."