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Boxborough Select Board
How the Boxborough Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 5 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms. The same five members served after the May 2026 town election (Kristin Hilberg and Priya Sundaram re-elected). On June 8, 2026 a motion to make Sam Anderson Chair failed 2-3-0; the board then unanimously chose Robert Stemple as Chair and Sam Anderson as Clerk. Minutes after August 24, 2026 are not posted yet. The end date is a placeholder. Covers 6 meetings so far, June 8 to August 24, 2026.
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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 budgetYour Boxborough ballot: 13 quizzes, about a minute each.
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Boxborough Select Board: 7.5 out of 10 · Mostly open
How easy Boxborough 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 or abstain, but do not always 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 2017 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 shows a group photo of the members with each one named.Part points: 0.5/1
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 (+0.5): 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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Board years
Coming up
- Tue, Oct 13Select Board Joint Meeting with Acton-Boxborough Tri-Board →
- Wed, Oct 14Select Board Meeting →
From the agendas Boxborough posts on its official site. Agendas can change; the posted agenda is the official one.
Members
Samuel AndersonClerk · At-large · at 5 of 6 meetings
Wesley FowlksMember · At-large · at 5 of 6 meetings
Kristin HilbergMember · At-large · at 6 of 6 meetings
Priya SundaramMember · At-large · at 5 of 6 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
22 full-board meetings so far this year, through August 24. Ties share a rank.
1Robert Stemple22 of 22 meetings Every meeting100%2Kristin Hilberg21 of 22 meetings95%2Priya Sundaram21 of 22 meetings95%4Samuel Anderson20 of 22 meetings91%5Wesley Fowlks19 of 22 meetings86%28 full-board meetings in 2024. Ties share a rank.
1David McKiernan28 of 28 meetings Every meeting100%1Robert Stemple16 of 16 meetings · served from Jun Every meeting100%3Kristin Hilberg25 of 28 meetings89%4Wesley Fowlks24 of 28 meetings86%5Priya Sundaram23 of 28 meetings82%32 full-board meetings in 2023. Ties share a rank.
1David McKiernan21 of 21 meetings · served from May Every meeting100%1Priya Sundaram21 of 21 meetings · served from May Every meeting100%1Diana Lipari12 of 12 meetings · served until May Every meeting100%1Leslie Fox11 of 11 meetings · served until May Every meeting100%1John Markiewicz11 of 11 meetings · served until May Every meeting100%6Wesley Fowlks31 of 32 meetings97%7Kristin Hilberg20 of 21 meetings · served from May95%42 full-board meetings in 2022. Ties share a rank.
1Jennifer Campbell36 of 36 meetings · served until Nov Every meeting100%2Diana Lipari41 of 42 meetings98%3Leslie Fox40 of 42 meetings95%4Wesley Fowlks39 of 42 meetings93%4John Markiewicz39 of 42 meetings93%40 full-board meetings in 2021. Ties share a rank.
1Wesley Fowlks40 of 40 meetings Every meeting100%1Jennifer Campbell25 of 25 meetings · served from May Every meeting100%1Diana Lipari25 of 25 meetings · served from May Every meeting100%4Leslie Fox39 of 40 meetings98%5John Markiewicz38 of 40 meetings95%6Maria Neyland14 of 15 meetings · served until May93%6Robert Stemple14 of 15 meetings · served until May93%29 full-board meetings in 2020. Ties share a rank.
1Wesley Fowlks29 of 29 meetings Every meeting100%1Susan Bak10 of 10 meetings · served until Jun Every meeting100%3Leslie Fox28 of 29 meetings97%4John Markiewicz18 of 19 meetings · served from Jun95%5Maria Neyland27 of 29 meetings93%5Robert Stemple27 of 29 meetings93%26 full-board meetings in 2018. Ties share a rank.
1Robert Stemple26 of 26 meetings Every meeting100%1Wesley Fowlks14 of 14 meetings · served from Jun Every meeting100%3Susan Bak25 of 26 meetings96%3Maria Neyland25 of 26 meetings96%5Leslie Fox24 of 26 meetings92%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. Not shown: 2019, 2025, because too many of that year’s meetings are missing from the posted minutes.
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Meetings
About missing minutes
Loaded: Boxborough Select Board minutes from January 8, 2018 through August 24, 2026: 260 meetings and 2,201 votes. The town’s Agenda Center has Select Board minutes from 2017 on; MassVoter loaded 2018 on. Sixteen files posted as 2018-2020 minutes are blank (every page is empty), so those meetings are not here: January 22, February 26 (pre-Town Meeting session), February 27 and April 2, 2018; February 2, March 4, March 18, April 1, April 22, May 6, July 8, July 29, October 11, November 4 and November 18, 2019; and January 6, 2020. A few other files in the minutes slot are the agenda or another meeting’s minutes (January 12, 2018; March 29, June 21, 2021; May 14, 2026). Five scanned files were read by text recognition. The minutes call the board the Board of Selectmen until August 2018 and the Select Board after that. Not here: executive-session minutes (including released ones posted in 2023); subcommittee meetings; votes of the Finance Committee, Planning Board and other boards at joint meetings; Boxborough Leadership Forum and Acton-Boxborough tri-board sessions; meetings with an agenda but no posted minutes (among them October 14, November 24, December 1, December 8 and December 22, 2025, and May 12 and May 28, 2025); and meetings after August 24, 2026 (the September 14 and 28, 2026 minutes are not posted yet). Boxborough’s minutes name the mover and seconder and give the count as yes-no-abstain (“Vote: Approved 5-0-0”); a count that matches the members present with no no votes is shown as every member present voting yes. When a member takes part remotely, and through the Zoom years 2020-2022, the board votes by roll call (“Hilberg – aye; Stemple – aye …”), shown by name. Splits usually name the members who voted no (“Approved 3-2-0 (Fowlks, Anderson)”, “4-1-0, with Member Fowlks against”); where a split count names no one, or the count and the names disagree, we show the count only, with a note (28 votes), and where the minutes give no count or names we show the result only (8 votes). A count printed as “Approved 2-3-0” is shown as failed. Members who recused themselves are not shown in that vote; members who arrived late, left early or were out of the room are shown only in the votes they were there for, and some 2020-2022 minutes give separate attendance lists for the executive-session start and the open session. A motion with no recorded outcome is not counted as a vote. We will ask the town to confirm any noted vote.
Votes where members disagreed
Most board votes are unanimous. These are the ones where at least one member voted no or abstained, newest first.
Jun 8Nominate Sam Anderson as Chair of the Select BoardMotion: Member Fowlks moved to nominate Sam Anderson as Chair of the…Failed 2–3 · see note
June 8, 2026: Nominate Sam Anderson as Chair of the Select Board
Member Fowlks moved to nominate Sam Anderson as Chair of the Select Board. Seconded by Member Anderson. Member Anderson accepted the nomination. Vote: Approved 2-3-0.
The minutes write the result as “Vote: Approved 2-3-0”: two in favor and three against, so the motion failed. The minutes do not say who voted which way. Robert Stemple was then elected Chair 5-0-0.
From the minutes
“Member Fowlks moved to nominate Sam Anderson as Chair of the Select Board. Seconded by Member Anderson. Member Anderson accepted the nomination. Vote: Approved 2-3-0..” (Motion: Fowlks, second: Anderson)
From the Boxborough 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: Town of Boxborough Select Board page (named group photo, LCTV) — Sam Anderson, Priya Sundaram, Wes Fowlks, Bob Stemple and Kristin Hilberg. Cropped by MassVoter. Former members show initials.
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