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Chelmsford Select Board
How the Chelmsford Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 5 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms. David Boisvert and Jon Kurland joined the board after the April 2026 town election; Patrick Maloney left it (his last meeting was March 30, 2026). On April 9, 2026 the board chose Patricia Wojtas as Chair, Jeffrey Hardy as Vice Chair and David Boisvert as Clerk. Minutes after August 24, 2026 are not posted yet. The end date (April 2027) is a placeholder. Covers 12 meetings so far, April 9 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 Chelmsford ballot: 13 quizzes, about a minute each.
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Chelmsford Select Board: 8.5 out of 10 · Mostly open
How easy Chelmsford makes it to see, online, how each member votes. It scores the town’s records, not any official. Checked October 10, 2026.
- Minutes postedMinutes are posted for every meeting more than three months old.Full points: 2/2
- Each vote namedSplit votes name the members who voted no or abstained; many votes are roll calls by name.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 2013 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 publishes a captioned group photo of the board, not individual photos.Part points: 0.5/1
How the town can raise its score
- 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
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Members
ChairPatricia WojtasChair · At-large · at 12 of 12 meetings
Vice-ChairJeffrey HardyVice Chair · At-large · at 11 of 12 meetings
David BoisvertClerk · At-large · at 12 of 12 meetings✓ Every meeting 2026
Aaron CunninghamMember · At-large · at 12 of 12 meetings✓ Every meeting 2026
Jon KurlandMember · At-large · at 12 of 12 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
17 full-board meetings so far this year, through August 24. Ties share a rank.
1Aaron Cunningham17 of 17 meetings Every meeting100%1Patricia Wojtas17 of 17 meetings Every meeting100%1David Boisvert12 of 12 meetings · served from Apr Every meeting100%1Jon Kurland12 of 12 meetings · served from Apr Every meeting100%5Jeffrey Hardy15 of 17 meetings88%6Patrick Maloney4 of 5 meetings · served until Mar80%29 full-board meetings in 2025. Ties share a rank.
1Patricia Wojtas29 of 29 meetings Every meeting100%1Aaron Cunningham22 of 22 meetings · served from Apr Every meeting100%1George Dixon7 of 7 meetings · served until Mar Every meeting100%1Virginia Crocker Timmins7 of 7 meetings · served until Mar Every meeting100%5Erin Drew24 of 25 meetings · served until Nov96%6Patrick Maloney26 of 29 meetings90%7Jeffrey Hardy19 of 22 meetings · served from Apr86%28 full-board meetings in 2024. Ties share a rank.
1George Dixon28 of 28 meetings Every meeting100%1Erin Drew28 of 28 meetings Every meeting100%1Virginia Crocker Timmins28 of 28 meetings Every meeting100%1Patricia Wojtas28 of 28 meetings Every meeting100%5Patrick Maloney18 of 19 meetings · served from Apr95%31 full-board meetings in 2023. Ties share a rank.
1George Dixon31 of 31 meetings Every meeting100%1Virginia Crocker Timmins31 of 31 meetings Every meeting100%1Patricia Wojtas31 of 31 meetings Every meeting100%1Erin Drew24 of 24 meetings · served from Apr Every meeting100%1Kenneth Lefebvre7 of 7 meetings · served until Mar Every meeting100%6Mark Carota16 of 18 meetings · served until Sep89%42 full-board meetings in 2022. Ties share a rank.
1Patricia Wojtas42 of 42 meetings Every meeting100%2Kenneth Lefebvre41 of 42 meetings98%2Virginia Crocker Timmins41 of 42 meetings98%4Mark Carota40 of 42 meetings95%5George Dixon39 of 42 meetings93%47 full-board meetings in 2021. Ties share a rank.
1Kenneth Lefebvre47 of 47 meetings Every meeting100%1Virginia Crocker Timmins47 of 47 meetings Every meeting100%3Patricia Wojtas46 of 47 meetings98%4Mark Carota36 of 39 meetings · served from Apr92%5George Dixon42 of 47 meetings89%6Emily Antul1 of 2 meetings · served until Jan50%34 full-board meetings in 2020. Ties share a rank.
1Virginia Crocker Timmins34 of 34 meetings Every meeting100%1Patricia Wojtas34 of 34 meetings Every meeting100%3George Dixon33 of 34 meetings97%3Kenneth Lefebvre33 of 34 meetings97%5Emily Antul28 of 34 meetings82%30 full-board meetings in 2019. Ties share a rank.
1Patricia Wojtas30 of 30 meetings Every meeting100%2Emily Antul29 of 30 meetings97%3Virginia Crocker Timmins21 of 22 meetings · served from Apr95%4Kenneth Lefebvre28 of 30 meetings93%5George Dixon27 of 30 meetings90%6Glenn Diggs7 of 8 meetings · served until Mar88%24 full-board meetings in 2018. Ties share a rank.
1Glenn Diggs24 of 24 meetings Every meeting100%1Patricia Wojtas24 of 24 meetings Every meeting100%1Emily Antul18 of 18 meetings · served from Apr Every meeting100%1Laura Merrill6 of 6 meetings · served until Mar Every meeting100%5Kenneth Lefebvre22 of 24 meetings92%6George Dixon21 of 24 meetings88%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.
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Meetings
About missing minutes
Loaded: Chelmsford Select Board minutes (the board was called the Board of Selectmen until August 2020) from January 8, 2018 through August 24, 2026: 282 meetings and 2,533 votes. The town’s Agenda Center holds the board’s minutes back to 2013 (MassVoter has loaded 2018 on). All the minutes are typed documents with searchable text. Joint meetings with other boards (School Committee, Finance Committee, Planning Board, Zoning Board of Appeals, Board of Health, Housing Authority and others) are included when they are in the board’s minutes; only the Select Board members’ votes are shown. Not here: executive-session minutes (released executive-session minutes attached to some files are left out, except February 15, 2024, where they are the only minutes posted); September 9, 2024 (the file posted for that date is the November 4, 2024 minutes); July 9, 2026 (a joint executive session with the Zoning Board of Appeals; agenda only); January 29, 2020 (a Vision and Values Committee public input session, not a board meeting); and meetings after August 24, 2026 (the September 14, September 28 and October 5, 2026 minutes are not posted yet). Chelmsford’s minutes record most votes as “Motion carries 5-0, unanimous” with the members present listed at the top, and since 2020 many votes as roll calls by name (“Roll call vote: Chair Wojtas-Y, Vice Chair Hardy-Y, Clerk Boisvert-Y, Board Member Cunningham-Y and Board Member Kurland-Y”). Split votes name the members who voted no or abstained. Where a count does not match the members present and the minutes do not say who voted which way, or a roll call does not match its count, we show the count only, with a note (21 votes). Two officer elections were a choice between two nominees (April 2023 and April 2024); they show the count, with the minutes’ record of who chose whom in the note. 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.
Aug 10Schedule a special town meeting for January 11th and…Motion: MOTION: by Vice Chair Hardy to schedule a special town meeting…Passed 4–1 · No: Wojtas
August 10, 2026: Schedule a special town meeting for January 11th and special debt exclusion vote on February 9th
MOTION: by Vice Chair Hardy to schedule a special town meeting for January 11th and special debt exclusion vote on February 9th. Seconded by Clerk Boisvert.
Yes: Boisvert, Cunningham, Hardy, KurlandNo: Wojtas
From the minutes
“MOTION: by Vice Chair Hardy to schedule a special town meeting for January 11th and special debt exclusion vote on February 9th. Seconded by Clerk Boisvert. Motion carries 4-1, with Chair Wojtas voting against..” (Motion: Hardy, second: Boisvert)
Apr 13Recommend approval of Article 21Motion: MOTION: by Vice Chair Hardy to recommend approval of Article 21.…Passed 4–0 · Abstained: Hardy
April 13, 2026: Recommend approval of Article 21
MOTION: by Vice Chair Hardy to recommend approval of Article 21. Seconded by Clerk Boisvert. Roll call vote: Chair Wojtas-Y, Vice Chair Hardy-A, Clerk Boisvert-Y, Board Member Cunningham-Y and Board Member Kurland-Y.
Yes: Boisvert, Cunningham, Kurland, WojtasAbstained: Hardy
From the minutes
“MOTION: by Vice Chair Hardy to recommend approval of Article 21. Seconded by Clerk Boisvert. Roll call vote: Chair Wojtas-Y, Vice Chair Hardy-A, Clerk Boisvert-Y, Board Member Cunningham-Y and Board Member Kurland-Y. Motion carries 4-0, with Vice Chair Hardy abstaining..” (Motion: Hardy, second: Boisvert)
Apr 9Elect Patricia Wojtas as ChairMotion: Vice Chair Wojtas asked for a vote to name Vice Chair…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 9, 2026 (Special meeting): Elect Patricia Wojtas as Chair
Vice Chair Wojtas asked for a vote to name Vice Chair Wojtas as Chair.
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“Vice Chair Wojtas asked for a vote to name Vice Chair Wojtas as Chair. The vote was unanimous, 5-0..”
Apr 9Elect Jeffrey Hardy as Vice ChairMotion: Chair Wojtas asked for a vote to name Board Member Hardy…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 9, 2026 (Special meeting): Elect Jeffrey Hardy as Vice Chair
Chair Wojtas asked for a vote to name Board Member Hardy as Vice Chair.
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“Chair Wojtas asked for a vote to name Board Member Hardy as Vice Chair. The vote was unanimous, 5-0..”
Apr 9Elect David Boisvert as ClerkMotion: Chair Wojtas asked for a vote to name Board Member Boisvert…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 9, 2026 (Special meeting): Elect David Boisvert as Clerk
Chair Wojtas asked for a vote to name Board Member Boisvert as Clerk.
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“Chair Wojtas asked for a vote to name Board Member Boisvert as Clerk. The vote was unanimous, 5-0..”
From the Chelmsford Select Board’s official minutes in the town’s Agenda Center. We check every vote against the Select Board members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Photos: Town of Chelmsford, Select Board page (official board photo, captioned by name; cropped by MassVoter).
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