How the Billerica Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 5 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms. Michael Riley returned to the board after the April 11, 2026 town election, succeeding John Burrows; Michael Rosa continued to serve. The April 27, 2026 agenda lists the reorganization, but those minutes are not posted; from June 15, 2026 the minutes list Michael Riley as Chair, Jillian Pavidis as Vice Chair and Daniel Darris-O’Connor as Secretary. Minutes after August 17, 2026 are not posted yet. The end date is a placeholder. Covers 5 meetings so far, June 15 to August 17, 2026.
A monthly email on what it voted on, starting in November.
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.
How easy Billerica makes it to see, online, how each member votes. It scores the town’s records, not any official. Checked October 11, 2026.
~Minutes postedMinutes are posted for most, but not all, meetings more than three months old.Part points: 1/2
~Each vote namedThe minutes name the members who vote no, and most split votes list how each member voted.Part points: 2/3
✓Posted quicklyMinutes are posted for every meeting more than a month old.Full points: 2/2
✓Past years onlineSelect Board minutes from 2010 to today are online.Full points: 1/1
✓Readable textThe minutes are text you can search and copy.Full points: 1/1
✕Member photosThe town’s website lists the members’ names but no photos.No points: 0/1
How the town can raise its score
Minutes posted (+1): Post approved minutes for every meeting on the town website. Don’t require a sign-in to view them.
Each vote named (+1): 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.
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.
From the agendas Billerica posts on its official site. Agendas can change; the posted agenda is the official one.
What Town Meeting decided
In Billerica, Town Meeting — not the Select Board — votes the town budget, bylaws and zoning. Here is what it did with each article, in the Town Clerk’s own words. Town Meeting members are elected by precinct; counts are from the town’s electronic voting.
Annual Town Meeting (Fall) · October 6, 2026 19 votes: 18 passed, 1 passed as amended
Sessions: Session 1 - October 6, 2026 (meeting continues; later sessions not yet posted)
Not here yet: Billerica posts only electronic voting reports, not Town Clerk minutes, so articles decided without an electronic vote are not here; the 2026 Fall Annual Town Meeting is still under way (Session 1 of October 6, 2026 only).
Titles are short descriptions of each article from the official record; the quoted words are the Town Clerk’s. A vote at Town Meeting is not the final word on everything: some articles also need a ballot vote (such as a tax override) or the Attorney General’s approval (bylaws).
"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
13 full-board meetings so far this year, through August 17. Ties share a rank.
From the official minutes: full-board meetings only (committee meetings are not counted). Members are counted only for meetings held while they served, and arriving late counts as attending. The minutes rarely say why a member was absent.
A monthly email on its votes and who was there, starting in November.
Meetings
About missing minutes
Loaded: Billerica Select Board minutes from January 8, 2018 through August 17, 2026: 219 meetings and 3,564 votes. The town’s Agenda Center holds the board’s minutes back to 2010; MassVoter has loaded 2018 on. The board was the Board of Selectmen until 2020; the minutes begin calling it the Select Board in the fall of 2020 and are headed Select Board from December 2020. Most minutes from 2022 on are typed documents with searchable text; 84 files (2018 to 2021, two in 2022 and one in 2024) are scanned images, which MassVoter read with text recognition and checked where names or counts were unclear. Not here: executive-session minutes; cancelled meetings; meetings of two-member Select Board sub-committees and the 2025 Acting Town Manager negotiations committee; votes of the Billerica Housing Authority and other boards at joint meetings; meetings with an agenda but no posted minutes, among them June 15, 2020 (reorganization), November 16 and December 7, 2020, February 22, 2021, November 17, December 8 and December 15, 2025, and March 30, April 27 (reorganization), April 30, May 4, May 18 and June 1, 2026; dates where the file posted is the wrong one (April 23 and May 7, 2018 hold the April 27, 2018 dangerous dog hearing minutes, which are loaded once; April 8, 2019 repeats the March 4, 2019 minutes; June 16, 2025 repeats the June 26, 2025 minutes); and meetings after August 17, 2026 (the September 14 and 21 and October 5, 2026 minutes are not posted yet). Billerica’s minutes have used several forms: in 2018 and 2019 “It was voted: 4 – In Favor, 1 – Opposed (Selectman …)”, with dissenters, abstainers and absent members named; from 2020 to 2022 roll calls by name (“Selectman Rosa-AYE … Roll call vote (5-0)”); from 2022 to 2025 “unanimously voted 5-0-0” or a count with a roll call by name or the dissenters named; and since late 2025 a table with each member’s vote. A count equal to the members present, or unanimous wording, is shown as every member present voting yes. Some roll calls leave out a member who was at the meeting; that member is left out of that vote, with a note. Where the count and the names in the minutes disagree, or a split count names no one, we show the count only (49 votes), and where the minutes give no count or names we show the result only (21 votes). Members who recused themselves or were out of the room are not shown in that vote; members who arrived late or left early are shown only in the votes they were there for. A motion with no recorded outcome is not counted as a vote. We will ask the town to confirm any noted vote.
Most board votes are unanimous. These are the ones where at least one member voted no or abstained, newest first.
Aug 17Approve the Consent Agenda as presentedMotion: Consent Item G, the proposed Open Space and Recreation Committee appointment,…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
Consent Item G, the proposed Open Space and Recreation Committee appointment, had been removed from the agenda. a Temp Signs Turkey Trot-Diana Saunders-4 Signs 18 x 24 Town Center 10/1/26-11/4/26 b Temp Signs BATV 5K -4 signs 24' x 18" Town Center 08/18/26-10/18/26 c Donation To the Billerica Veterans Services Department, $300 from Leon Wlodyka-Support Veterans in need as well as community events d Donation To the Town of Billerica, exterior Town Hall window cleaning services valued at $2,500 from Jack Services LLC e Donation To the Billerica Veterans Services Department, $270 from Donald L. Damon Jr./Billerica Finance Committee for veterans' events and support f Donation To the Town of Billerica, $500 from Coastal Community Capital for sponsorship of the Manufacturing Community Symposium h Donations To the town of Billerica $1,200 from Stoneham Bank for sponsorship of the Manufacturing Community Symposium Motion Secretary Darris-O'Connor moved to approve the Consent Agenda as presented: Member Rosa seconded the motion. Vote: Secretary Darris-O'Connor Yea Member Favreau Yea Member Rosa Yea Vice Chair Pavidis Yea Chair Riley Yea
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“Consent Item G, the proposed Open Space and Recreation Committee appointment, had been removed from the agenda. a Temp Signs Turkey Trot-Diana Saunders-4 Signs 18 x 24 Town Center 10/1/26-11/4/26 b Temp Signs BATV 5K -4 signs 24' x 18" Town Center 08/18/26-10/18/26 c Donation To the Billerica Veterans Services Department, $300 from Leon Wlodyka-Support Veterans in need as well as community events d Donation To the Town of Billerica, exterior Town Hall window cleaning services valued at $2,500 from Jack Services LLC e Donation To the Billerica Veterans Services Department, $270 from Donald L. Damon Jr./Billerica Finance Committee for veterans' events and support f Donation To the Town of Billerica, $500 from Coastal Community Capital for sponsorship of the Manufacturing Community Symposium h Donations To the town of Billerica $1,200 from Stoneham Bank for sponsorship of the Manufacturing Community Symposium Motion Secretary Darris-O'Connor moved to approve the Consent Agenda as presented: Member Rosa seconded the motion. Vote: Secretary Darris-O'Connor Yea Member Favreau Yea Member Rosa Yea Vice Chair Pavidis Yea Chair Riley Yea.” (second: Rosa)
Aug 17Vote, pursuant to M.G.L. c. 60, §64A, to authorize…Motion: Motion Secretary Darris-O'Connor moved that the Select Board vote, pursuant to…Passed 4–0 · see note
August 17, 2026: Vote, pursuant to M.G.L. c. 60, §64A, to authorize the Town to retain for municipal purposes the property located at Outlook Road, Parcel 85-67-0, which has been acquired by the…
ApprovePassed · 4–0
Motion Secretary Darris-O'Connor moved that the Select Board vote, pursuant to M.G.L. c. 60, §64A, to authorize the Town to retain for municipal purposes the property located at Outlook Road, Parcel 85-67-0, which has been acquired by the Town through a final judgment of the Land Court foreclosing the right of redemption for nonpayment of real estate taxes, and to determine the specific municipal purpose(s) for which said property shall be used or take any other action relative thereto. Member Favreau Seconded the motion. Vote: Secretary Darris-O'Connor Yea Member Favreau Yea Member Rosa Recused Vice Chair Pavidis Yea Chair Riley Yea
Yes: Darris-O'Connor, Favreau, Pavidis, RileyThe minutes say Michael Rosa stepped aside (recused), so that member is not shown as voting.
From the minutes
“Motion Secretary Darris-O'Connor moved that the Select Board vote, pursuant to M.G.L. c. 60, §64A, to authorize the Town to retain for municipal purposes the property located at Outlook Road, Parcel 85-67-0, which has been acquired by the Town through a final judgment of the Land Court foreclosing the right of redemption for nonpayment of real estate taxes, and to determine the specific municipal purpose(s) for which said property shall be used or take any other action relative thereto. Member Favreau Seconded the motion. Vote: Secretary Darris-O'Connor Yea Member Favreau Yea Member Rosa Recused Vice Chair Pavidis Yea Chair Riley Yea.” (Motion: Darris-O'Connor, second: Favreau)
Aug 17Adopt the Order of Taking in the form presented,…Motion: MOTION: Move to adopt the Order of Taking in the form…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
August 17, 2026: Adopt the Order of Taking in the form presented, acquiring interests in land sufficient to complete the layout and acceptance of those public ways identified in the vote under Article…
Adopt orderPassed · Unanimous, 5 present
MOTION: Move to adopt the Order of Taking in the form presented, acquiring interests in land sufficient to complete the layout and acceptance of those public ways identified in the vote under Article 30 of the May 21, 2026 Annual Spring Town Meeting, provided that Town Counsel may update Schedule A as necessary prior to recording, and to award no damages for the taking. Member Rosa seconded the motion. Vote: Secretary Darris-O'Connor Yea Member Favreau Yea Member Rosa Yea Vice Chair Pavidis Yea Chair Riley Yea
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“MOTION: Move to adopt the Order of Taking in the form presented, acquiring interests in land sufficient to complete the layout and acceptance of those public ways identified in the vote under Article 30 of the May 21, 2026 Annual Spring Town Meeting, provided that Town Counsel may update Schedule A as necessary prior to recording, and to award no damages for the taking. Member Rosa seconded the motion. Vote: Secretary Darris-O'Connor Yea Member Favreau Yea Member Rosa Yea Vice Chair Pavidis Yea Chair Riley Yea.” (second: Rosa)
Aug 10Approve the consent agenda as presentedMotion: Motion: Secretary Darris-O'Connor made a motion to approve the consent agenda…Passed 2–1 · No: Rosa
Motion: Secretary Darris-O'Connor made a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Chair Riley seconded the motion. Roll Call Vote: Secretary Darris-O'Connor Yea Member Rosa Nay Chair Riley Yea Vote Result: 2-1; motion passed.
Yes: Darris-O'Connor, RileyNo: Rosa
From the minutes
“Motion: Secretary Darris-O'Connor made a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Chair Riley seconded the motion. Roll Call Vote: Secretary Darris-O'Connor Yea Member Rosa Nay Chair Riley Yea Vote Result: 2-1; motion passed..” (Motion: Darris-O'Connor, second: Riley)
Jul 27By roll call on the motion to waive the…Motion: The Board voted by roll call on the motion to waive…Passed 4–1 · No: Darris-O'Connor
July 27, 2026 (Special meeting): By roll call on the motion to waive the remaining DPW fees for Wicked Wings in the amount of $22,063.51: Member Rosa Aye 07.27.26 Special Meeting Before and After EX…
ApprovePassed · 4–1
The Board voted by roll call on the motion to waive the remaining DPW fees for Wicked Wings in the amount of $22,063.51: Member Rosa Aye 07.27.26 Special Meeting Before and After EX Ses Approved 09.14.26 Vice Chair Pavidis Aye Secretary Darris-O'Connor No Member Favreau Aye Chair Riley Aye The motion passed, 4-1.
Yes: Favreau, Pavidis, Riley, RosaNo: Darris-O'ConnorThe minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“The Board voted by roll call on the motion to waive the remaining DPW fees for Wicked Wings in the amount of $22,063.51: Member Rosa Aye 07.27.26 Special Meeting Before and After EX Ses Approved 09.14.26 Vice Chair Pavidis Aye Secretary Darris-O'Connor No Member Favreau Aye Chair Riley Aye The motion passed, 4-1..”
Jul 20Waive the first-reading process and approve Select Board Policy…Motion: Motion: Member Rosa moved to waive the first-reading process and approve…Passed 3–2 · No: Darris-O'Connor, Pavidis
July 20, 2026: Waive the first-reading process and approve Select Board Policy §4.4 concerning the appointment of the Police Chief and Fire Chief
AppointPassed · 3–2
Motion: Member Rosa moved to waive the first-reading process and approve Select Board Policy §4.4 concerning the appointment of the Police Chief and Fire Chief. Seconded by Member Favreau. Vote Result: 3-2. Members Rosa, Favreau, and Riley voted in favor. Members Pavidis and Darris-O'Connor voted against.
“Motion: Member Rosa moved to waive the first-reading process and approve Select Board Policy §4.4 concerning the appointment of the Police Chief and Fire Chief. Seconded by Member Favreau. Vote Result: 3-2. Members Rosa, Favreau, and Riley voted in favor. Members Pavidis and Darris-O'Connor voted against..” (Motion: Rosa, second: Favreau)
Jul 20Rescind the Select Board Code of Conduct PolicyMotion: Motion: Member Favreau moved to rescind the Select Board Code of…Failed 2–3 · No: Darris-O'Connor, Pavidis, Riley
July 20, 2026: Rescind the Select Board Code of Conduct Policy
ApproveFailed · 2–3
Motion: Member Favreau moved to rescind the Select Board Code of Conduct Policy. Seconded by Member Rosa. Secretary Darris-O'Connor Nay Member Favreau Yea Member Rosa Yea Vice Chair Pavidis Nay Chair Riley Nay
“Motion: Member Favreau moved to rescind the Select Board Code of Conduct Policy. Seconded by Member Rosa. Secretary Darris-O'Connor Nay Member Favreau Yea Member Rosa Yea Vice Chair Pavidis Nay Chair Riley Nay.” (Motion: Favreau, second: Rosa)
From the Billerica Select Board’s official minutes, posted in the town’s Agenda Center (Select Board). We check every vote against the Select Board members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Photos (the town’s website has no Select Board photos): The Lowell Sun — Michael Riley and Michael Rosa (Peter Currier, March 2026), Jillian Pavidis and Daniel Darris-O’Connor (Peter Currier, March 2025), Dina Favreau (courtesy photo, March 2024). Cropped by MassVoter. Former members show initials.