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Avon Select Board
How the Avon Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 3 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms. Francis A. Hegarty chaired the Board of Selectmen, with Steven P. Rose as Clerk and Robert F. Brady, Jr. as Associate (letterhead and attendance lines; a few budget-workshop minutes list Mr. Brady as Clerk and Mr. Rose as Associate). This board year began after the spring 2017 town election; MassVoter loads minutes from January 6, 2018, so the start date is a placeholder. Covers 14 meetings, January 6 to April 5, 2018.
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What does the Select Board 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 Select Board, votes the town budget and town bylaws.
Sources: Massachusetts Select Board Handbook (MMA) · Mass. Division of Local Services: the town budgetBoard years
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Members
Robert BradyAssociate · Elected townwide · at 14 of 14 meetingsSteven RoseClerk · Elected townwide · at 14 of 14 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.
Meetings
About missing minutes
Loaded: Avon Select Board (called the Board of Selectmen until late 2023) minutes from January 6, 2018 through September 17, 2026. Minutes from 2025 on come from the town’s Agenda Center; minutes from 2018 to 2024 come from the town’s Document Center (Minutes, Select Board folder), where the town posted its older files. Some meetings from 2018 to 2025 have an agenda but no minutes online, and a few files are filed under the wrong date; we load each file under the meeting it really records and list the gaps for the town. Meetings after September 17, 2026 are not posted yet. Nearly every minutes file is a scanned image, which MassVoter read with text recognition and checked by hand. Avon’s minutes name who made and seconded each motion, but most of them then say only “The motion carried” or “The motion passed,” without a count or names. For those votes we show the result only, without guessing how each member voted, even though the board has only three members. When the minutes say the vote was unanimous or that all were in favor, every member present is shown voting yes, and when the minutes record a roll call (usually for executive sessions, adjourning and remote meetings), each member’s vote is shown by name. Votes taken by other boards at joint meetings (for example the Finance Committee) are left out. We will ask the town to confirm any noted vote. The Select Board office answered MassVoter’s questions about the minutes on October 7 and 8, 2026; each vote changed by those answers says so in its note.
Votes where members disagreed
Most board votes are unanimous. These are the ones where at least one member voted no or abstained, newest first.
Feb 22Hire Community Paradigm Associates, LLC and enlist their services…Motion: The Board unanimously voted to hire Community Paradigm Associates, LLC and…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
February 22, 2018 (Workshop meeting): Hire Community Paradigm Associates, LLC and enlist their services to assist in the recruitment of a new Town Administrator
The Board unanimously voted to hire Community Paradigm Associates, LLC and enlist their services to assist in the recruitment of a new Town Administrator.
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“The Board unanimously voted to hire Community Paradigm Associates, LLC and enlist their services to assist in the recruitment of a new Town Administrator..”
Jan 27Draft a letter to the Chairman of the Finance…Motion: the Board unanimously voted to draft a letter to the Chairman…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
January 27, 2018 (Workshop meeting): Draft a letter to the Chairman of the Finance Committee requesting an extension to the February 1, 2018 deadline due to the uncertainty of state funding and local aid and…
The Board unanimously voted to draft a letter to the Chairman of the Finance Committee requesting an extension to the February 1, 2018 deadline due to the uncertainty of state funding and local aid and certain Departmental requests that extend the Town's ability to fund these items. The motion passed.
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“the Board unanimously voted to draft a letter to the Chairman of the Finance Committee requesting an extension to the February 1, 2018 deadline due to the uncertainty of state funding and local aid and certain Departmental requests that extend the Town's ability to fund these items. The motion passed..”
From the Avon Select Board’s official minutes, posted in the town’s Agenda Center (2025 on) and Document Center (2018–2024). We check every vote against the Select Board members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials.
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