How the Duxbury Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 5 Select Board members elected townwide. Amy MacNab joined the board on September 14, 2020. That night the board chose Ted Flynn as Chair and Amy MacNab as Clerk; David Madigan became Vice Chair. Many 2020 and 2021 meetings were held online with roll call votes. Covers 19 meetings, September 14 to March 1, 2021.
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.
In Duxbury, 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. Any registered voter can take part, and most votes are by voice or show of hands, so there is no list of who voted which way.
Special Town Meeting · June 16, 2025 10 votes: 9 passed, 1 indefinitely postponed
Art. 2Zoning: replace accessory apartment rules with new rules for protected-use accessory dwelling units (ADUs)Passed“motion carried. · Yes - 296; No - 44”
Art. 20Historic district bylaw: new section 12.6.3 letting the town repair its own historic buildings without a Commission meetingPassed“Motion carried. · Yes – 79; No – 17”
Art. 26Community Preservation: $841,380, with $280,460 each reserved for open space, housing and historic resourcesPassed“Motion carried. · Yes – 78; No – 3”
Not here yet: the March 14, 2026 Annual Town Meeting and any Special Town Meeting held after June 30, 2025 (Duxbury prints its Town Meeting votes only in its fiscal-year Annual Town Report, and the FY2026 report is not posted yet).
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.
Meetings
About missing minutes
Loaded: Select Board (called the Board of Selectmen until 2022) minutes from January 8, 2018 through July 20, 2026, as posted on the town website. Not here: minutes the town has not posted, including every meeting between April 14 and July 14, 2025 (the board met at least on June 9, 2025), between September 15 and October 27, 2025 (it met at least on October 6, 10 and 17, 2025), between March 30 and May 18, 2026 (it met at least on April 28, 2026) and after July 20, 2026, plus the June 26, 2018, April 22, 2022, May 2, 2022 and March 25, 2024 meetings, whose minutes the board approved; executive-session minutes; and sessions where members only attended another board’s meeting. The posted files for March 25, April 1, April 22 and October 7, 2019 and February 7, 2022 are missing pages, so some votes from those meetings are not shown. Most minutes from 2018 to 2024 are scanned copies; we read them with text recognition (OCR) and checked the odd cases against the page images. Votes the members took as Water & Sewer Commissioners are included. Duxbury’s minutes name the mover and seconder of every motion and give the vote as a count of yes, no and abstain (for example 4:0:1), usually naming any member who voted no or abstained; many votes, especially from 2020 to 2022 and in 2025 and 2026, are roll calls with each member’s vote by name. When the count matches the members present (for example 3:0:0 with three present) we show every member present as voting yes; when the minutes name who voted no or abstained and the count adds up, we show each member’s vote. Where the minutes give only a count without names, a roll call names a member the minutes list as absent, or the names and the count do not match, we show the count only and add a note. Members who stepped aside (recused) or had not yet arrived are left out of that 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.
Feb 1Move the date of the Annual and Special Town…Motion: that the Board of Selectmen move the date of the Annual…Passed 2–1 · No: Madigan
February 1, 2021: Move the date of the Annual and Special Town Meetings to Saturday, May 15, 2021
ApprovePassed · 2–1
That the Board of Selectmen move the date of the Annual and Special Town Meetings to Saturday, May 15, 2021
Yes: Flynn, MacNabNo: Madigan
From the minutes
“Ms. MacNab moved that the Board of Selectmen move the date of the Annual and Special Town Meetings to Saturday, May 15, 2021. Seconded by Mr. Madigan Roll Call Vote: Mr. Flynn-Aye; Mr. Madigan-Nay; and Ms. MacNab-Aye.” (Motion: MacNab, second: Madigan)
Jan 21Approve the plan to set up a testing site…Motion: that the Board of Selectmen approves the plan to set up…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
January 21, 2021: Approve the plan to set up a testing site at the Senior Center by a private testing company (NE Med Solutions) with no cost to be borne by the Town,…
ApprovePassed · Unanimous, 3 present
That the Board of Selectmen approves the plan to set up a testing site at the Senior Center by a private testing company (NE Med Solutions) with no cost to be borne by the Town, and in accordance with the Town's rules and regulations
The minutes list Amy M. MacNab as both the mover and the seconder, so no seconder is shown.
From the minutes
“Ms. MacNab moved that the Board of Selectmen approves the plan to set up a testing site at the Senior Center by a private testing company (NE Med Solutions) with no cost to be borne by the Town, and in accordance with the Town's rules and regulations. Seconded by Ms. MacNab Roll Call Vote: Mr. Flynn-Aye; Mr. Madigan-Aye; and Ms. MacNab-Aye.” (Motion: MacNab)
Nov 9Vote to accept the recommendation of the Highway Safety…Motion: that the Board of Selectmen votes to accept the recommendation of…Passed 2–1 · No: Flynn
November 9, 2020: Vote to accept the recommendation of the Highway Safety Advisory Committee for the reduction of the speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph on Surplus Street Marshall Street Franklin…
ApprovePassed · 2–1
That the Board of Selectmen votes to accept the recommendation of the Highway Safety Advisory Committee for the reduction of the speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph on Surplus Street Marshall Street Franklin Street (Rte 53 to Valley Street) Standish Street Valley Street (Rte 53 to Pembroke Line) Crescent Street Gurnet Road Powder Point Ave Forest Street King Caesar Road Hunt Farm Old North Street as we find these roads meet the thickly settled and/or business district criteria, as allowed by Sections 193 & 194 of Chapter 218 of the Acts of 2016 regarding changes to the Speed Limit Regulations under Chapter 90, Section 17, and further to authorize the Chair to sign and send notice of action to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT)
Yes: MacNab, MadiganNo: Flynn
From the minutes
“Ms. MacNab moved that the Board of Selectmen votes to accept the recommendation of the Highway Safety Advisory Committee for the reduction of the speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph on Surplus Street Marshall Street Franklin Street (Rte 53 to Valley Street) Standish Street Valley Street (Rte 53 to Pembroke Line) Crescent Street Gurnet Road Powder Point Ave Forest Street King Caesar Road Hunt Farm Old North Street as we find these roads meet the thickly settled and/or business district criteria, as allowed by Sections 193 & 194 of Chapter 218 of the Acts of 2016 regarding changes to the Speed Limit Regulations under Chapter 90, Section 17, and further to authorize the Chair to sign and send notice of action to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT). Seconded by Mr. Madigan Roll Call Vote: Mr. Flynn-Nay; Mr. Madigan-Aye; and Ms. MacNab-Aye.” (Motion: MacNab, second: Madigan)
Sep 14Appoint Mr. Flynn as Chair of the Board of…Motion: to appoint Mr. Flynn as Chair of the Board of SelectmenPassed 2–0 · Abstained: Flynn
September 14, 2020: Appoint Mr. Flynn as Chair of the Board of Selectmen
AppointPassed · 2–0
To appoint Mr. Flynn as Chair of the Board of Selectmen
Yes: MacNab, MadiganAbstained: Flynn
From the minutes
“Mr. Madigan moved to appoint Mr. Flynn as Chair of the Board of Selectmen. Seconded by Ms. MacNab. Roll Call Vote: Mr. Madigan-Aye; Ms. MacNab-Aye; Mr. Flynn - abstained.” (Motion: Madigan, second: MacNab)
Sep 14Appoint Ms. MacNab as Clerk of the Board of…Motion: to appoint Ms. MacNab as Clerk of the Board of SelectmenPassed 2–0 · Abstained: MacNab
September 14, 2020: Appoint Ms. MacNab as Clerk of the Board of Selectmen
AppointPassed · 2–0
To appoint Ms. MacNab as Clerk of the Board of Selectmen
Yes: Flynn, MadiganAbstained: MacNab
From the minutes
“Mr. Madigan moved to appoint Ms. MacNab as Clerk of the Board of Selectmen. Seconded by Mr. Flynn. Roll Call Vote: Mr. Madigan-Aye; Mr. Flynn-Aye; Ms. MacNab-abstained.” (Motion: Madigan, second: Flynn)
Sep 14Appoint Mr. Madigan as Vice Chair of the Board…Motion: to appoint Mr. Madigan as Vice Chair of the Board of…Passed 2–0 · Abstained: Madigan
September 14, 2020: Appoint Mr. Madigan as Vice Chair of the Board of Selectmen
AppointPassed · 2–0
To appoint Mr. Madigan as Vice Chair of the Board of Selectmen
Yes: Flynn, MacNabAbstained: Madigan
From the minutes
“Mr. Flynn moved to appoint Mr. Madigan as Vice Chair of the Board of Selectmen. Seconded by Ms. MacNab. Roll Call Vote: Mr. Flynn-Aye; Ms. MacNab-Aye; Mr. Madigan-abstained.” (Motion: Flynn, second: MacNab)
From the Duxbury Select Board’s official minutes, posted on the town website. We check every vote against the Select Board members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Photos of current members: stills from The Local Seen (Duxbury’s local cable) candidate videos (Amy MacNab 2022; Fernando Guitart and Cynthia Ladd Fiorini 2024; Brian Glennon and Michael McGee 2026). Former members show initials.