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Foxborough Select Board
How the Foxborough Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 5 Select Board members elected townwide. The Board of Selectmen had five members: Chairman David S. Feldman, Vice Chairman Christopher P. Mitchell, Clerk Mark S. Elfman, James J. DeVellis and Virginia M. Coppola. MassVoter has loaded this board’s minutes from January 9, 2018 on. Covers 10 meetings, January 9 to May 1, 2018.
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.
Sources: Massachusetts Select Board Handbook (MMA) · Mass. Division of Local Services: the town budgetYour Foxborough ballot: 13 quizzes, about a minute each.
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Members
Mark S. ElfmanClerk · Elected townwide · at 10 of 10 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: Select Board minutes (called the Board of Selectmen until early 2023) from January 9, 2018 through September 22, 2026: 232 meetings. Minutes from 2018 through September 8, 2026 come from the town website’s Select Board minutes page, which holds minutes back to 2009 (MassVoter has loaded 2018 on); the September 22, 2026 minutes are the draft posted on the board’s Diligent meeting portal and have not yet been approved. Joint sessions are included, but only the Select Board’s own votes; votes of the Board of Health and the Planning Board at joint sessions are left out. Not here: executive-session minutes; minutes for 148 other dates the Diligent portal lists for the board since 2018 (about 115 of them are notices that a quorum of the board would attend another body’s meeting, mostly the Advisory Committee’s budget hearings, or a public event; the rest are mostly short sessions before Town Meeting, executive sessions and town manager interviews); and every meeting after September 22, 2026. All minutes are typed. Foxborough’s minutes give the mover and seconder for nearly every motion. In 2018 and 2019 they say “Final Resolution: Motion Carries 5-0-0” (sometimes with a list of the members voting yes); from 2019 to mid-2024 they usually say “by S. Ferguson, 2nd by M. Elfman. Approved, 5-0,” with roll calls by name during remote meetings; since September 2024 each vote lists the members by name (“Yes: Stephanie McGowan, Bill Yukna … / No: … / Not Present at Vote: …”). When the minutes list the vote by name, we show it that way. When they give a count with no dissent that matches the members present, or say every member voted in favor, we show every member present as voting yes, and when they name the members who voted no or abstained and the count adds up, everyone else present as voting yes. Where the minutes give only a split count without names, a list that leaves out a member who was there or does not match the count, or a count that does not match the members present, we show the count only and add a note. Votes with no count written down are shown with the result only. Members who stepped aside (recused), were not present for a vote, or had left are left out of that vote. Some minutes (September 2024 to May 2025, and three meetings in 2026) have no attendance list; for those, the members shown as present are the ones named in the votes. 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 17Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Annual…Motion: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Annual Town Elections;…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 17, 2018: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Annual Town Elections; Annual Town Reports; Reports of Committees (voted on together)
Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Annual Town Elections; Annual Town Reports; Reports of Committees (voted on together)
The minutes list the Board’s vote on its position on each Annual Town Meeting article in a table (“The Board reviewed each article and voted their position on each”); they do not say what the position was.
From the minutes
“Annual Town Elections; Annual Town Reports; 5-0-0.”
Apr 17Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Operating…Motion: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Operating BudgetPassed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 17, 2018: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Operating Budget
Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Operating Budget
The minutes list the Board’s vote on its position on each Annual Town Meeting article in a table (“The Board reviewed each article and voted their position on each”); they do not say what the position was.
Apr 17Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: CIP…Motion: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: CIP Budget /…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 17, 2018: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: CIP Budget / Schedule A CIP FY19
Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: CIP Budget / Schedule A CIP FY19
The minutes list the Board’s vote on its position on each Annual Town Meeting article in a table (“The Board reviewed each article and voted their position on each”); they do not say what the position was.
From the minutes
“CIP Budget / Schedule A CIP FY19 5-0-0.”
Apr 17Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: High…Motion: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: High School Track…Passed 3–2 · see note
April 17, 2018: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: High School Track & Stands
Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: High School Track & Stands
The minutes list the Board’s vote on its position on each Annual Town Meeting article in a table (“The Board reviewed each article and voted their position on each”); they do not say what the position was. The minutes give only the count (3-2), not how each member voted.
Apr 17Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Fire…Motion: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Fire ContractPassed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 17, 2018: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Fire Contract
Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Fire Contract
The minutes list the Board’s vote on its position on each Annual Town Meeting article in a table (“The Board reviewed each article and voted their position on each”); they do not say what the position was.
Apr 17Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: DPW…Motion: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: DPW ContractPassed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 17, 2018: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: DPW Contract
Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: DPW Contract
The minutes list the Board’s vote on its position on each Annual Town Meeting article in a table (“The Board reviewed each article and voted their position on each”); they do not say what the position was.
Apr 17Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: FY’18…Motion: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: FY’18 Budget AdjustmentsPassed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 17, 2018: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: FY’18 Budget Adjustments
Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: FY’18 Budget Adjustments
The minutes list the Board’s vote on its position on each Annual Town Meeting article in a table (“The Board reviewed each article and voted their position on each”); they do not say what the position was.
Apr 17Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Revolving…Motion: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Revolving Funds Annual…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 17, 2018: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Revolving Funds Annual Spending Limits
Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Revolving Funds Annual Spending Limits
The minutes list the Board’s vote on its position on each Annual Town Meeting article in a table (“The Board reviewed each article and voted their position on each”); they do not say what the position was.
From the minutes
“Revolving Funds Annual Spending Limits 5-0-0.”
Apr 17Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Fund…Motion: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Fund Qualified OPEB…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 17, 2018: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Fund Qualified OPEB Trust
Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Fund Qualified OPEB Trust
The minutes list the Board’s vote on its position on each Annual Town Meeting article in a table (“The Board reviewed each article and voted their position on each”); they do not say what the position was.
Apr 17Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Fund…Motion: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Fund Capital StabilizationPassed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 17, 2018: Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Fund Capital Stabilization
Board position on the Annual Town Meeting article: Fund Capital Stabilization
The minutes list the Board’s vote on its position on each Annual Town Meeting article in a table (“The Board reviewed each article and voted their position on each”); they do not say what the position was.
From the Foxborough Select Board’s official minutes, posted on the town’s Select Board minutes page and its Diligent meeting portal. We check every vote against the Select Board members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Photos: WJAR NBC 10 (Bill Yukna), The Foxboro Reporter, photo by Mark Stockwell (Amy LaBrache), The Sun Chronicle (Mark Elfman), and stills from Foxboro Cable Access videos: “Around Foxborough #44 – Stephanie McGowan for the Foxborough Board of Selectmen” (2020) and the Foxboro Jaycees Candidates Night, April 11, 2024 (Deb Giardino).
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