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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 April 9, 2024 town election the same three members reorganized on April 18, 2024: Eric Beckerman as Chair, Jason Suzor as Clerk and Shannon Coffey as Associate (all three motions carried). Covers 29 meetings, April 18 to April 17, 2025.

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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 budget
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Members

Shannon CoffeyAssociate · Elected townwide · at 28 of 29 meetingsJason SuzorClerk · Elected townwide · at 29 of 29 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.

Thursday, April 17, 2025 · Regular meeting1 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAbsent: Eric BeckermanThursday, April 3, 2025 · Regular meeting1 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentThursday, March 27, 2025 · Regular meeting1 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentThursday, March 20, 2025 · Regular meeting1 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentThursday, March 6, 2025 · Regular meeting1 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members present

Votes where members disagreed

Most board votes are unanimous. These are the ones where at least one member voted no or abstained, newest first.

Dec 5Adopt Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 32B, Sections 21, 22,…Motion: Mr. Suzor made a motion to adopt Massachusetts General Law, Chapter…Passed 2–0 · see note

December 5, 2024: Adopt Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 32B, Sections 21, 22, and 23

ApprovePassed · 2–0

Mr. Suzor made a motion to adopt Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 32B, Sections 21, 22, and 23. Ms. Coffey seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken. Mr. Suzor voted aye. Chair Beckerman voted aye. The motion passed.

The roll call does not give a vote for Shannon Coffey. Showing the count only.

From the minutes

“Mr. Suzor made a motion to adopt Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 32B, Sections 21, 22, and 23. Ms. Coffey seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken. Mr. Suzor voted aye. Chair Beckerman voted aye. The motion passed..” (Motion: Suzor, second: Coffey)

Read it in the official minutes, page 2 (PDF)

Nov 21Declare a winter parking ban from November 15, 2024…Motion: Mr. Suzor made a motion to declare a winter parking ban…Passed · see note

November 21, 2024: Declare a winter parking ban from November 15, 2024 to April 15, 2025 pursuant to the Town of Avon's Bylaws Chapter 226, Section 1

ApprovePassed · No count or names in the minutes

Mr. Suzor made a motion to declare a winter parking ban from November 15, 2024 to April 15, 2025 pursuant to the Town of Avon's Bylaws Chapter 226, Section 1. Ms. Coffey seconded the motion. The motion carried.

The minutes name Shannon Coffey, who was absent, as the seconder; the Select Board office told MassVoter.com by email (October 8, 2026) that Eric Beckerman seconded the motion.

From the minutes

“Mr. Suzor made a motion to declare a winter parking ban from November 15, 2024 to April 15, 2025 pursuant to the Town of Avon's Bylaws Chapter 226, Section 1. Ms. Coffey seconded the motion. The motion carried..” (Motion: Suzor, second: Beckerman)

Read it in the official minutes, page 4 (PDF)

Oct 17Approve the recommended 10% increase to the water rates…Motion: Mr. Suzor made a motion to approve the recommended 10% increase…Passed 2–1 · No: Coffey

October 17, 2024: Approve the recommended 10% increase to the water rates for each of the four tiers for Fiscal Year 2025 as proposed by the DPW Director

ApprovePassed · 2–1

Mr. Suzor made a motion to approve the recommended 10% increase to the water rates for each of the four tiers for Fiscal Year 2025 as proposed by the DPW Director. Ms. Coffey opposed the motion. Chairman Beckerman seconded the motion. The motion passed by a 2-1 vote.

Yes: Beckerman, SuzorNo: Coffey

From the minutes

“Mr. Suzor made a motion to approve the recommended 10% increase to the water rates for each of the four tiers for Fiscal Year 2025 as proposed by the DPW Director. Ms. Coffey opposed the motion. Chairman Beckerman seconded the motion. The motion passed by a 2-1 vote..” (Motion: Suzor, second: Beckerman)

Read it in the official minutes, page 3 (PDF)

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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