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Concord Select Board
How the Concord Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 5 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms. Jane Hotchkiss served as Chair and Tom McKean as Clerk, with Alice Kaufman, Steven Ng and Michael Lawson. MassVoter has loaded this board’s minutes from January 8, 2018 on; the start date is a placeholder. Steven Ng’s last meeting was April 11, 2018 (Annual Town Meeting). Covers 13 meetings, January 8 to April 11, 2018.
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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
Alice KaufmanMember · At-large · at 11 of 13 meetingsMichael LawsonMember · At-large · at 12 of 13 meetingsThomas McKeanClerk · At-large · at 12 of 13 meetingsSteven NgMember · At-large · at 12 of 13 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: Concord Select Board minutes from January 8, 2018 through August 31, 2026: 342 meetings and 2,592 votes. The town’s Agenda Center holds the board’s minutes back to 2008; MassVoter has loaded 2018 on. The board was already called the Select Board throughout this period. All the minutes loaded are typed documents with searchable text. Not here: executive-session minutes (including released executive-session minutes that some files append after the open-session minutes); agendas posted in place of minutes; cancelled or postponed meetings; meetings of two-member Select Board subcommittees (the Committee Volunteer and Flag Policy subcommittees); the Concord Housing Roundtable, site visits, a liquor-licensing training session and other boards’ hearings that members attended, where the minutes record no Select Board deliberation or vote; meetings with an agenda but no posted minutes (among them the open session of March 26, 2018, April 11 and April 30, 2019, October 15, 2019, December 7, 2019, July 7, 2020, October 23 and November 6 and 17, 2021, and February 7, 2022); and meetings after August 31, 2026 (the September 14, 18 and 28, 2026 minutes are not posted yet). Concord’s minutes usually say “Upon a motion duly made and seconded, it was UNANIMOUSLY VOTED,” which is shown as every member present voting yes; they named the mover only from 2025 on. From 2020 to 2023 most votes were roll calls by name, and when a member voted no or abstained the minutes usually name the member (“The motion passed 4-1-0, with Ms. Ackerman voting nay”). Where the minutes say only “it was VOTED” or “MOVED” with no count or names (common in 2018 and 2019) we show the result only (155 votes); where a split count names no one (“by a margin of 3-1 with one member opposed”) we show the count only, with a note (37 votes). A few roll calls contradict the word “unanimously” in the same sentence; those show the result only, with a note. Members who stepped aside (recused) or whom a roll call lists as “Not Present” are not shown in that vote; members who arrived late or left early are shown only in the votes they were there for. In 2021 and 2024 several sets of minutes record the board’s positions on Town Meeting articles in a table (“Affirmative Action – 5-0-0”); each row is shown as a vote. At joint meetings only the Select Board members’ votes are shown. 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.
Apr 10Approve the Junction Village Open Space Planning Task Force…Motion: Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED:…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 10, 2018: Approve the Junction Village Open Space Planning Task Force charge as revised
Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: to approve the Junction Village Open Space Planning Task Force charge as revised.
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: to approve the Junction Village Open Space Planning Task Force charge as revised..”
Apr 10Approve the Nuclear Metals/Starmet Property Re-use Planning Committee charge…Motion: Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED:…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 10, 2018: Approve the Nuclear Metals/Starmet Property Re-use Planning Committee charge as revised
Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: to approve the Nuclear Metals/Starmet Property Re-use Planning Committee charge as revised.
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: to approve the Nuclear Metals/Starmet Property Re-use Planning Committee charge as revised..”
Apr 10Appoint Carlene Hempel of 50 Highland Street, Margot Kimball…Motion: Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED:…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 10, 2018: Appoint Carlene Hempel of 50 Highland Street, Margot Kimball of 21 Winthrop Street, and Harry Bartlett of 152 Commonwealth Avenue #5 to the West Concord Junction Cultural District Committee
Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: to appoint Carlene Hempel of 50 Highland Street, Margot Kimball of 21 Winthrop Street, and Harry Bartlett of 152 Commonwealth Avenue #5 to the West Concord Junction Cultural District Committee
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: to appoint Carlene Hempel of 50 Highland Street, Margot Kimball of 21 Winthrop Street, and Harry Bartlett of 152 Commonwealth Avenue #5 to the West Concord Junction Cultural District Committee.”
Apr 9Approve the consent agendaMotion: Upon a motion duly made and seconded the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED:…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 9, 2018: Approve the consent agenda
Upon a motion duly made and seconded the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: To approve the consent agenda.
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“Upon a motion duly made and seconded the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: To approve the consent agenda..”
Apr 9Recommend Affirmative Action on Article 27 Historic Districts Map…Motion: On a motion duly made and seconded, it was: VOTED: to…Passed 3–2 · No: McKean, Ng
April 9, 2018: Recommend Affirmative Action on Article 27 Historic Districts Map Amendment - Hubbardville District. (Affirmative Action: Ms. Kaufman, Mr. Lawson, and Ms. Hotchkiss; No Action: Mr. Ng and Mr....
On a motion duly made and seconded, it was: VOTED: to recommend Affirmative Action on Article 27 Historic Districts Map Amendment - Hubbardville District. (Affirmative Action: Ms. Kaufman, Mr. Lawson, and Ms. Hotchkiss; No Action: Mr. Ng and Mr. McKean)
Yes: Hotchkiss, Kaufman, LawsonNo: McKean, NgThe minutes list the positions by name: “Affirmative Action: Ms. Kaufman, Mr. Lawson, and Ms. Hotchkiss; No Action: Mr. Ng and Mr. McKean.” The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“On a motion duly made and seconded, it was: VOTED: to recommend Affirmative Action on Article 27 Historic Districts Map Amendment - Hubbardville District. (Affirmative Action: Ms. Kaufman, Mr. Lawson, and Ms. Hotchkiss; No Action: Mr. Ng and Mr. McKean).”
Apr 9Recommend Affirmative Action on Article 40 Zoning Bylaw Amendment…Motion: On a motion duly made and seconded, it was: VOTED: to…Passed 2–0 · see note
April 9, 2018: Recommend Affirmative Action on Article 40 Zoning Bylaw Amendment - Personal Wireless Communications Facility. (Affirmative Action: Ms. Hotchkiss and Ms. Hotchkiss; Abstain: Mr. McKean; Recuse:...
On a motion duly made and seconded, it was: VOTED: to recommend Affirmative Action on Article 40 Zoning Bylaw Amendment - Personal Wireless Communications Facility. (Affirmative Action: Ms. Hotchkiss and Ms. Hotchkiss; Abstain: Mr. McKean; Recuse: Mr. Lawson and Ms. Kaufman).
The minutes list “Affirmative Action: Ms. Hotchkiss and Ms. Hotchkiss; Abstain: Mr. McKean; Recuse: Mr. Lawson and Ms. Kaufman.” Jane Hotchkiss is named twice, so the second supporter is not named. Showing the count only (2 for, 1 abstaining, 2 recused). The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“On a motion duly made and seconded, it was: VOTED: to recommend Affirmative Action on Article 40 Zoning Bylaw Amendment - Personal Wireless Communications Facility. (Affirmative Action: Ms. Hotchkiss and Ms. Hotchkiss; Abstain: Mr. McKean; Recuse: Mr. Lawson and Ms. Kaufman)..”
Apr 9Appoint Joseph Levine of 29 Temple Road to the…Motion: Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED:…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 9, 2018: Appoint Joseph Levine of 29 Temple Road to the Pollinator Health Advisory Committee for a term to expire February 2019
Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: to appoint Joseph Levine of 29 Temple Road to the Pollinator Health Advisory Committee for a term to expire February 2019
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: to appoint Joseph Levine of 29 Temple Road to the Pollinator Health Advisory Committee for a term to expire February 2019.”
Apr 9Recommend Affirmative Action on Article 25 - Authorize Acquisition…Motion: On a motion duly made and seconded, it was: VOTED: to…Passed · see note
April 9, 2018: Recommend Affirmative Action on Article 25 - Authorize Acquisition of 369 Commonwealth Avenue Property on Warner Pond with the amended motion to include " … and affordable housing
On a motion duly made and seconded, it was: VOTED: to recommend Affirmative Action on Article 25 - Authorize Acquisition of 369 Commonwealth Avenue Property on Warner Pond with the amended motion to include " … and affordable housing."
The minutes record the result but no count or names. The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“On a motion duly made and seconded, it was: VOTED: to recommend Affirmative Action on Article 25 - Authorize Acquisition of 369 Commonwealth Avenue Property on Warner Pond with the amended motion to include " … and affordable housing.".”
Apr 2Appoint Ms. Kaufman as Clerk Pro Tem in the…Motion: Upon a motion duly made and seconded the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED:…Passed Unanimous, 4 present · see note
April 2, 2018: Appoint Ms. Kaufman as Clerk Pro Tem in the absence of Mr. McKean
Upon a motion duly made and seconded the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: To appoint Ms. Kaufman as Clerk Pro Tem in the absence of Mr. McKean.
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“Upon a motion duly made and seconded the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: To appoint Ms. Kaufman as Clerk Pro Tem in the absence of Mr. McKean..”
Apr 2Approve the consent agendaMotion: Upon a motion duly made and seconded the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED:…Passed Unanimous, 4 present · see note
April 2, 2018: Approve the consent agenda
Upon a motion duly made and seconded the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: To approve the consent agenda.
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“Upon a motion duly made and seconded the Board UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: To approve the consent agenda..”
From the Concord 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 Concord Bridge — Wendy Rovelli and Cameron McKennitt (Celeste Katz Marston, April 2024), Paul Boehm and Mary Hartman (January 2025), Dean Banfield (courtesy photo, March 2026). Cropped by MassVoter. Former members show initials.
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