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Freetown Board of Selectmen
How the Freetown Board of Selectmen voted, from the Board of Selectmen’s official minutes. 3 Selectmen elected townwide. Chad S. Carvalho joined the board in April 2026. Covers 14 meetings so far, April 13 to August 3, 2026.
A monthly email on what it voted on, starting in November.
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 budgetYour Freetown ballot: 16 quizzes, about a minute each.
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Freetown Board of Selectmen: 8 out of 10 · Mostly open
How easy Freetown makes it to see, online, how each member votes. It scores the town’s records, not any official. Checked October 3, 2026.
- Minutes postedMinutes are posted for every meeting more than three months old.Full points: 2/2
- Each vote namedVotes are roll calls that say how each Selectman voted.Full points: 3/3
- Posted quicklyMinutes usually go up within about a month.Full points: 2/2
- Past years onlineBoard of Selectmen minutes online start in January 2025, under five years.No points: 0/1
- Readable textThe minutes are text you can search and copy.Full points: 1/1
- Member photosThe Board of Selectmen page lists members by name, with no member photos.No points: 0/1
How the town can raise its score
- Past years online (+1): Keep at least five years of minutes online. When the website changes, move the old files instead of deleting them.
- Member photos (+1): Show a photo of each member on the board’s web page, with their name, the date their term ends and how to contact them. A group photo of the members, with everyone named in the caption or on the same page, earns half a point.
How we score · Something wrong, or has the town made a change? Email info@massvoter.com and we’ll re-check.
A monthly email on its votes, starting in November. We'll also tell you if this score changes.
Board years
Coming up
No upcoming meeting is posted yet. Check the official calendar →
Under the state Open Meeting Law, boards post notice at least 48 hours ahead, not counting weekends and legal holidays.
What Town Meeting decided
In Freetown, Town Meeting — not the Board of Selectmen — votes the town budget, bylaws and zoning. Freetown has not posted official results of its 2024–2026 Town Meetings online, so they are not here yet. We will add them when the Town Clerk’s records are available.
What we checked: No official Town Meeting results are posted for Freetown for 2024-2026: the Town Clerk's "Article/Vote Summaries" page stops at 2020 and the FY2024 and FY2025 Annual Town Reports list the meetings but not the votes, so the June 3, 2024 Annual and Special, October 21, 2024 Special, February 24, 2025 Special, June 2, 2025 Annual and Special, July 28, 2025 Special, January 26, 2026 Special and June 1, 2026 Annual and Special Town Meetings are not here yet.
Members
Chad S. CarvalhoSelectman · Elected townwide · at 10 of 14 meetings
Jared C. ZagerSelectman · Elected townwide · at 12 of 14 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.
Attendance
24 full-board meetings so far this year, through August 3. Ties share a rank.
1Jared C. Zager22 of 24 meetings92%2Carlos A. Lopes21 of 24 meetings88%3Trevor Matthews8 of 10 meetings · served until Mar80%4Chad S. Carvalho10 of 14 meetings · served from Apr71%35 full-board meetings in 2025. Ties share a rank.
1Carlos A. Lopes34 of 35 meetings97%2Jared C. Zager33 of 35 meetings94%3Trevor Matthews28 of 35 meetings80%From the official minutes: full-board meetings only (committee meetings are not counted). Members are counted only for meetings held while they served, and arriving late counts as attending. The minutes rarely say why a member was absent.
A monthly email on its votes and who was there, starting in November.
Meetings
About missing minutes
Not here yet: the town has posted Board of Selectmen minutes online only from January 2025. The minutes are scanned documents; we read them with text recognition. Most votes are named roll calls. Where a roll call does not list every Selectman present, the vote is noted and individual votes are not shown. Votes by other boards at joint meetings are not included. 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.
None.
From the Freetown Board of Selectmen’s official minutes, posted in the town’s Agenda Center. We check every roll call against the Selectmen present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades officials; votes and attendance are shown exactly as the minutes record them. Photos: Carlos Lopes from Homes For Our Troops; Jared Zager and Chad Carvalho from the Town of Freetown video of the October 5, 2026 Board of Selectmen meeting (identified by the nameplate in front of each member).
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