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Edgartown Selectboard

How the Edgartown Selectboard voted, from the Selectboard’s official minutes. 3 Selectboard members elected townwide. Alex Morrison joined the board after the April 2025 town election; Michael Donaroma left. Margaret Serpa chaired the board. Covers 45 meetings, April 14 to April 7, 2026.

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What does the Selectboard 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 Selectboard, votes the town budget and town bylaws.

Sources: Massachusetts Select Board Handbook (MMA) · Mass. Division of Local Services: the town budget
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What Town Meeting decided

In Edgartown, Town Meeting — not the Selectboard — 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 · April 14, 2026 11 votes: 11 passed

Source: Town Clerk's report of the 2026 Special Town Meeting.

Annual Town Meeting · April 14, 2026 71 votes: 65 passed, 4 passed as amended, 1 failed, 1 indefinitely postponed

Source: Town Clerk's report of the 2026 Annual Town Meeting.

Special Town Meeting · December 9, 2025 14 votes: 14 passed

Source: Town Clerk's record in the 2025 Annual Town Report.

Special Town Meeting · April 8, 2025 10 votes: 10 passed

Source: Town Clerk's record in the 2025 Annual Town Report.

Annual Town Meeting · April 8, 2025 86 votes: 76 passed, 5 passed as amended, 1 failed, 4 indefinitely postponed

Source: Town Clerk's record in the 2025 Annual Town Report.

Special Town Meeting · April 9, 2024 11 votes: 9 passed, 1 passed as amended, 1 other

Source: Town Clerk's report of the 2024 Special Town Meeting.

Annual Town Meeting · April 9, 2024 98 votes: 85 passed, 6 passed as amended, 2 failed, 5 indefinitely postponed

Source: Town Clerk's report of the 2024 Annual Town Meeting.

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).

Members

Alex MorrisonMember · Elected townwide · at 42 of 45 meetingsArthur SmadbeckMember · Elected townwide · at 35 of 45 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: Selectboard (Board of Selectmen until 2022) minutes from January 4, 2021 through May 18, 2026, from the town website (none newer posted as of October 4, 2026). Executive session minutes are not included; scanned minutes were read with text recognition and checked. Edgartown’s minutes record nearly every vote as “Mr. Donaroma moved to approve. Ms. Serpa seconded. Unanimous.” or “The Board did a rollcall vote and all voted Aye”; those are shown as every member present voting yes. Members who stepped aside on an item (“Mr. Donaroma abstained”) are shown as abstaining. Only one split vote is recorded. A few motions with no vote recorded are left out. We will ask the town to confirm any noted vote.

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 · Regular meeting1 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAbsent: Arthur SmadbeckMonday, April 6, 2026 · Regular meeting3 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentMonday, March 30, 2026 · Regular meeting4 recorded votes, 1 with disagreementAll 3 members presentMonday, March 16, 2026 · Regular meeting4 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentMonday, March 9, 2026 · Regular meeting1 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAbsent: Arthur Smadbeck

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 14Application for the Annual Rainbow Run going up Main…Motion: application for the Annual Rainbow Run going up Main Street on…Passed 2–0 · see note

April 14, 2025: Application for the Annual Rainbow Run going up Main Street on the morning of May 17th — approve

ApprovePassed · 2–0

Application for the Annual Rainbow Run going up Main Street on the morning of May 17th — approve

Yes: Serpa, SmadbeckAlex Morrison abstained.

From the minutes

“Mr. Smadbeck moved to approve. Ms. Serpa seconded. Mr. Morrison abstained. Unanimous. The Board then approved the following items: A Common Victualler renewal for the Quarterdeck. The Minutes of 3/24/25 (Mr. Morrison abstained) The weekly bill and payroll warrants. The Board then made the following reappointments: Board of Regi.” (Motion: Smadbeck, second: Serpa)

Read it in the official minutes, page 1 (PDF)

From the Edgartown Selectboard’s official minutes, posted on the town website. We check every vote against the members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Photos: The Martha’s Vineyard Times: Arthur Smadbeck (file photo), Alex Morrison (election day, April 2025, Nicholas Vukota), Margaret Serpa (March 2026, Nicholas Vukota). Julia Tarka: Jeanna Shepard, Vineyard Gazette (April 2026).

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