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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. After the spring 2023 town election the same three members reorganized on May 4, 2023: Eric Beckerman as Chairman and Jason Suzor as Clerk (both motions carried). Covers 27 meetings, May 4 to April 4, 2024.
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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
Shannon CoffeyAssociate · Elected townwide · at 25 of 27 meetingsJason SuzorClerk · Elected townwide · at 26 of 27 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 1Approve the appointment/classification change and Personnel Action Form of…Motion: Ms. Coffey made a motion to approve the appointment/classification change and…Passed 2–0 · Abstained: Suzor
February 1, 2024: Approve the appointment/classification change and Personnel Action Form of Jason L. Suzor, Jr. for the Senior Water Systems Operator position at a grade PW-3, Step 1 rate of $30.76 per…
Ms. Coffey made a motion to approve the appointment/classification change and Personnel Action Form of Jason L. Suzor, Jr. for the Senior Water Systems Operator position at a grade PW-3, Step 1 rate of $30.76 per hour effective February 5, 2024 with the offer being contingent that employee will obtain his T-2 water operator's license within six months of his hire date. Mr. Beckerman seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken. Ms. Coffey voted aye. Mr. Suzor abstained from the vote. Mr. Beckerman voted aye. The motion passed.
Yes: Beckerman, CoffeyAbstained: Suzor
From the minutes
“Ms. Coffey made a motion to approve the appointment/classification change and Personnel Action Form of Jason L. Suzor, Jr. for the Senior Water Systems Operator position at a grade PW-3, Step 1 rate of $30.76 per hour effective February 5, 2024 with the offer being contingent that employee will obtain his T-2 water operator's license within six months of his hire date. Mr. Beckerman seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken. Ms. Coffey voted aye. Mr. Suzor abstained from the vote. Mr. Beckerman voted aye. The motion passed..” (Motion: Coffey, second: Beckerman)
Dec 7Approve the livery license renewals for 2024Motion: Mr. Suzor made a motion to approve the following livery license…Passed · see note
December 7, 2023: Approve the livery license renewals for 2024
Mr. Suzor made a motion to approve the following livery license renewals for 2024.
The minutes record this motion with no result or seconder; the Select Board office told MassVoter.com by email (October 8, 2026) that Shannon Coffey seconded it and it passed. Only the result is shown. The minutes follow the motion with a table of livery licenses for Charles P. Marinelli, 340 East Spring Street.
From the minutes
“Mr. Suzor made a motion to approve the following livery license renewals for 2024..” (Motion: Suzor, second: Coffey)
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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