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Acushnet Board of Selectmen
How the Acushnet Board of Selectmen voted, from the Board of Selectmen’s official minutes. 3 Selectmen elected townwide. The board as of October 2026: Kevin Gaspar Sr. (Chair), Robert Hinckley and Ryan Rezendes, who replaced David Wojnar after the April 28, 2026 town election. Robert Hinckley chaired the board in early 2025. The town has posted minutes for only two meetings since January 2025 (February 11 and March 4, 2025), so this page shows one combined term until more minutes are available. Covers 2 meetings so far, February 11 to March 4, 2025.
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What does the Board of Selectmen do? It is the town’s executive board. It prepares the Town Meeting warrant (the list of articles voters decide), appoints members of many town boards, hires the town’s top staff, signs warrants to pay town bills, and grants licenses and permits.
Town Meeting, not the Board of Selectmen, votes the town budget and town bylaws.
Sources: Massachusetts Select Board Handbook (MMA) · Mass. Division of Local Services: the town budgetYour Acushnet ballot: 15 quizzes, about a minute each.
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Acushnet Board of Selectmen: 1 out of 10 · Not online
How easy Acushnet makes it to see, online, how each member votes. It scores the town’s records, not any official. Checked October 4, 2026.
- Minutes postedMinutes are not posted for the past year’s Board of Selectmen meetings.No points: 0/2
- Each vote namedThe posted minutes record votes as “all in favor” or “passed unanimously”, without a count.Part points: 1/3
- Posted quicklyMinutes are not posted after meetings.No points: 0/2
- Past years onlineLess than a year of Board of Selectmen minutes is online.No points: 0/1
- Readable textThe posted minutes are scanned images, so you can’t search or copy the text.No points: 0/1
- Member photosThe Board of Selectmen page lists members by name, with no photos.No points: 0/1
How the town can raise its score
- Minutes posted (+2): Post approved minutes for every meeting on the town website. Don’t require a sign-in to view them.
- Each vote named (+2): On any vote that isn’t unanimous, write how each member voted. For example: “Motion passed 3–2. Yes: Smith, Jones, Lee. No: Brown, Silva.” A roll call on split votes is the simplest way to do this.
- Posted quickly (+2): Post minutes within 30 days. If approval takes longer, post a draft marked “Draft – not yet approved” and replace it later.
- Past years online (+1): Keep at least five years of minutes online. When the website changes, move the old files instead of deleting them.
- Readable text (+1): Save minutes straight from Word or Google Docs as a PDF instead of printing and scanning them. If a scan is needed, turn on the scanner’s “searchable PDF” or text-recognition setting.
- Member photos (+1): Show a photo of each member on the board’s web page, with their name, the date their term ends and how to contact them. A group photo of the members, with everyone named in the caption or on the same page, earns half a point.
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Coming up
From the agendas Acushnet posts on its official site. Agendas can change; the posted agenda is the official one.
What Town Meeting decided
In Acushnet, Town Meeting — not the Board of Selectmen — votes the town budget, bylaws and zoning. Acushnet has not posted official results of its 2024–2026 Town Meetings online, so they are not here yet. We will add them when the Town Clerk’s records are available.
What we checked: Acushnet has not posted official results for any Town Meeting since January 2024: its website has only the warrants for the June 17, 2024 Annual, September 30, 2024 Special, June 16, 2025 Annual, November 3, 2025 Special and June 29, 2026 Annual Town Meetings, and its newest Annual Town Report online is for 2023.
Members
Robert HinckleyMember · Elected townwide · at 2 of 2 meetings
Ryan RezendesMember (since April 2026) · Elected townwide · at 0 of 0 meetings
David WojnarMember (until April 2026) · Elected townwide · at 2 of 2 meetings"At X of Y meetings" counts the members the minutes list as present at the start of each meeting in this record. Members who step out are listed on each meeting page.
Attendance
Not enough posted minutes yet to show attendance by year. A year is shown once its minutes are close to complete.
A monthly email on its votes and who was there, starting in November.
Meetings
About missing minutes
Acushnet has posted minutes for only 2 of the 82 Board of Selectmen meetings it has posted agendas for since January 2025 (February 11 and March 4, 2025), and none before 2025 on its current website. Those two meetings are shown here. MassVoter is asking the town for the rest under the public records law; this page will be filled in when the town provides them. In the two posted minutes, votes are recorded as “all in favor” or “passed unanimously”, shown as every Selectman voting yes; two motions with no vote recorded are left out.
Votes where members disagreed
Most board votes are unanimous. These are the ones where at least one member voted no or abstained, newest first.
None.
From the Acushnet Board of Selectmen’s official minutes, posted in the town’s Agenda Center. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Photos: submitted candidate photos via Fairhaven Neighborhood News: Ryan Rezendes (March 2026), David Wojnar (May 2023) and Robert Hinckley (May 2022); Kevin Gaspar from Fairhaven Neighborhood News (photo by Beth David, May 2026).
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