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Dover Board of Selectmen
How the Dover Board of Selectmen voted, from the Board of Selectmen’s official minutes. 3 Selectmen elected townwide for three-year terms, one seat each year. No change in members. Officers voted at the May 21, 2019 reorganization. Covers 35 meetings, May 21 to June 11, 2020.
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What does the Board of Selectmen 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 Board of Selectmen, 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
John JeffriesMember · Elected townwide · at 35 of 35 meetingsRobert SpringettClerk · Elected townwide · at 34 of 35 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: Dover Board of Selectmen minutes from January 11, 2018 through June 30, 2026, from the town’s Agenda Center. The town has not posted minutes for any meeting after June 30, 2026, or for eight earlier 2026 meetings (January 27, March 24, April 28, May 4, May 12, May 28, June 9 and June 15); in all, about 58 meetings since 2018 have an agenda online but no minutes. We list every meeting without minutes, and MassVoter is asking the town for them. Most minutes since 2020 are typed; about 70 from 2018 to early 2020 are scanned images, which MassVoter read with text recognition and checked by hand. Most Dover votes are recorded as unanimous or as a roll call by name, so we show each member’s vote. When the minutes give only the result, or a count without names (two 2-1 votes in 2019), we show that without guessing. Eleven motions that have no recorded vote are left out. Minutes of other committees filed in the same place (the Town Meeting Review, Board Membership Size and Police Chief Screening committees) are not loaded. 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.
Sep 26Approve the Personnel Board’s recommendation of an FY21 general…Motion: to approve the Personnel Board’s recommendation of an FY21 general increase…Passed 2–1 · see note
September 26, 2019: Approve the Personnel Board’s recommendation of an FY21 general increase of three percent for non-union staff
To approve the Personnel Board’s recommendation of an FY21 general increase of three percent for non-union staff
The minutes give only the count (2-1), not how each member voted.
From the minutes
“Ms. Hunter moved to approve the Personnel Board’s recommendation of an FY21 general increase of three percent for non-union staff, seconded by Mr. Springett; it was approved by a vote of two to one..” (Motion: Hunter, second: Springett)
May 21Approve the appointment of Christopher Dwelley as the Town…Motion: to approve the appointment of Christopher Dwelley as the Town AdministratorPassed 2–1 · see note
May 21, 2019: Approve the appointment of Christopher Dwelley as the Town Administrator
To approve the appointment of Christopher Dwelley as the Town Administrator
The minutes give only the count (2-1), not how each member voted.
From the minutes
“Ms. Hunter moved to approve the appointment of Christopher Dwelley as the Town Administrator, seconded by Mr. Springett; it was approved by a vote of two to one..” (Motion: Hunter, second: Springett)
From the Dover Board of Selectmen’s official minutes, posted in the town’s Agenda Center. We check every vote against the Selectmen present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials.
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