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Hudson Select Board
How the Hudson Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 5 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms. Patrick Thayer joined the board after the May 2026 town election, replacing Scott Duplisea. On May 18, 2026 the four members voted 4-0 for Steven Sharek as Chair, Lauren DuBreuil as Vice Chair and Patrick Thayer as Clerk. Michele Tousignant Dufour, the Town Moderator, was elected to the seat left by Judy Congdon at the September 1, 2026 special town election (term to May 2028); her first meeting was September 9, 2026. Minutes after September 9, 2026 are not posted yet. The end date is a placeholder. Covers 9 meetings so far, May 18 to September 9, 2026.
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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 budgetVote Transparency Score
Hudson Select Board: 7 out of 10 · Mostly open
How easy Hudson makes it to see, online, how each member votes. It scores the town’s records, not any official. Checked October 11, 2026.
- Minutes postedMinutes are posted for nearly every meeting more than three months old.Full points: 2/2
- Each vote namedThe minutes name the members who vote no or abstain, but do not list how each member voted.Part points: 2/3
- Posted quicklyMost minutes go up within about two months, but some recent meetings are still missing.Part points: 1/2
- Past years onlineSelect Board minutes from 2017 to today are online.Full points: 1/1
- Readable textThe minutes are text you can search and copy.Full points: 1/1
- Member photosThe town’s website lists the members’ names but no photos.No points: 0/1
How the town can raise its score
- Each vote named (+1): On any vote that isn’t unanimous, write how each member voted. For example: “Motion passed 3–2. Yes: Smith, Jones, Lee. No: Brown, Silva.” A roll call on split votes is the simplest way to do this.
- Posted quickly (+1): Post minutes within 30 days. If approval takes longer, post a draft marked “Draft – not yet approved” and replace it later.
- 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.
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Board years
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Members
ChairSteven SharekChair · At-large · at 9 of 9 meetings
Vice-ChairLauren DuBreuilVice Chair · At-large · at 9 of 9 meetings
Diane BemisMember · At-large · at 9 of 9 meetings
Michele Tousignant DufourMember · At-large · at 1 of 1 meetings · from Sep 2026✓ Every meeting 2026
Patrick ThayerClerk · At-large · at 9 of 9 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
19 full-board meetings so far this year, through September 9. Ties share a rank.
1Steven Sharek19 of 19 meetings Every meeting100%1Scott Duplisea10 of 10 meetings · served until May Every meeting100%1Patrick Thayer9 of 9 meetings · served from May Every meeting100%1Michele Tousignant Dufour1 of 1 meetings · served from Sep100%5Diane Bemis18 of 19 meetings95%5Lauren DuBreuil18 of 19 meetings95%7Judy Congdon6 of 7 meetings · served until Apr86%27 full-board meetings in 2025. Ties share a rank.
1Lauren DuBreuil18 of 18 meetings · served from May Every meeting100%2Steven Sharek25 of 27 meetings93%3Judy Congdon24 of 27 meetings89%3Scott Duplisea24 of 27 meetings89%3James Quinn8 of 9 meetings · served until May89%6Diane Bemis22 of 27 meetings81%24 full-board meetings in 2024. Ties share a rank.
1Scott Duplisea23 of 24 meetings96%2Diane Bemis15 of 16 meetings · served from May94%2Steven Sharek15 of 16 meetings · served from May94%4Judy Congdon21 of 24 meetings88%4Michael Burks7 of 8 meetings · served until May88%6James Quinn15 of 24 meetings63%17 full-board meetings in 2023. Ties share a rank.
1Michael Burks17 of 17 meetings Every meeting100%2Scott Duplisea16 of 17 meetings94%3Judy Congdon15 of 17 meetings88%4Shawn Sadowski7 of 8 meetings · served until Jul88%5James Quinn14 of 17 meetings82%19 full-board meetings in 2022. Ties share a rank.
1Scott Duplisea19 of 19 meetings Every meeting100%1Fred Lucy7 of 7 meetings · served until Apr Every meeting100%3Shawn Sadowski18 of 19 meetings95%4Michael Burks16 of 19 meetings84%5James Quinn15 of 19 meetings79%6Judy Congdon8 of 12 meetings · served from May67%21 full-board meetings in 2021. Ties share a rank.
1Michael Burks12 of 12 meetings · served from Jun Every meeting100%1Shawn Sadowski12 of 12 meetings · served from Jun Every meeting100%1Joseph Durant9 of 9 meetings · served until Apr Every meeting100%1John Parent9 of 9 meetings · served until Apr Every meeting100%5James Quinn19 of 21 meetings90%6Fred Lucy18 of 21 meetings86%7Scott Duplisea17 of 21 meetings81%21 full-board meetings in 2020. Ties share a rank.
1Scott Duplisea21 of 21 meetings Every meeting100%1Joseph Durant21 of 21 meetings Every meeting100%1Fred Lucy21 of 21 meetings Every meeting100%1John Parent21 of 21 meetings Every meeting100%5James Quinn19 of 21 meetings90%20 full-board meetings in 2019. Ties share a rank.
1Fred Lucy20 of 20 meetings Every meeting100%1John Parent20 of 20 meetings Every meeting100%3Joseph Durant18 of 20 meetings90%4James Quinn17 of 20 meetings85%5Scott Duplisea16 of 20 meetings80%23 full-board meetings in 2018. Ties share a rank.
1John Parent23 of 23 meetings Every meeting100%2Joseph Durant22 of 23 meetings96%2Fred Lucy22 of 23 meetings96%4Scott Duplisea21 of 23 meetings91%4James Quinn21 of 23 meetings91%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.
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Meetings
About missing minutes
Loaded: Hudson Select Board minutes from January 8, 2018 through September 9, 2026: 191 meetings and 3,202 votes. The town’s Agenda Center holds the board’s minutes back to 2017; MassVoter has loaded 2018 on. The board was the Board of Selectmen until it voted on December 7, 2020 to call itself the Select Board; from January 2021 its minutes say “Board of Selectmen who, by vote, prefer to be referred to as the Select Board.” All the minutes loaded have searchable text except two: the July 29, 2024 minutes are a scan and the February 28, 2022 file has unreadable text, so both were read with text recognition; two older files were posted as Word documents. Not here: executive-session minutes; cancelled meetings; and meetings with an agenda but no posted minutes. Many of those gaps fall in 2019 to 2024, when the town moved its records to a new website and some meeting pages list a minutes file that was never posted (among them June 17, 2019, January 6 and 13, June 1, 22 and 29, July 13 and December 21, 2020, March 16, May 17, June 7, July 12 and 26 and August 9, 2021, January 10, June 6 and 16, July 25 and August 15, 2022, January 9 and 23, March 13, April 24 and June 5, 2023, and February 26, March 11 and June 3, 2024); April 13 and August 10, 2026 also have no minutes posted, and meetings after September 9, 2026 are not posted yet. Until December 2024 Hudson’s minutes say “On a motion by Mr. Quinn, seconded by Mr. Durant, the Board voted 5-0 to …” and name members who abstain or vote no in the next sentence (“Mr. Lucy abstained”); a count that matches the members present is shown as every member present voting yes. Since December 2024 the minutes name the mover and seconder and list no votes and abstentions by name (“Motion Carries 4-0-1 – Abstained: Scott Duplisea”). Budget hearings are recorded in tables (department, amount, mover, seconder, vote); each row is shown as a vote (225 rows). Some counts do not agree with the names in the same sentence (for example “voted 4-0-1 … Mr. Lucy opposed”); those votes show the count only, with a note quoting both. Where a split count names no one, or the count does not match the members present, we show the count only, with a note (75 votes); where the minutes say only “the Board voted” with no count, or the count is misprinted, we show the result only (22 votes). Members who stepped aside (recused), arrived late or left early are shown only in the votes they were there for. At joint meetings with other boards only the Select Board members’ votes are shown, and choices between candidates where members picked different people show the result only. 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 9Appoint Shushma Singh, Christopher Monsini as full members of…Motion: ACTION: Select Board moved to appoint Shushma Singh, Christopher Monsini as…Passed 4–0 · see note
September 9, 2026 (Special meeting): Appoint Shushma Singh, Christopher Monsini as full members of the Town Manager's Search Committee and to appoint Sara Frost, Patrick Boyle, and Alicia Smith as alternates members
ACTION: Select Board moved to appoint Shushma Singh, Christopher Monsini as full members of the Town Manager's Search Committee and to appoint Sara Frost, Patrick Boyle, and Alicia Smith as alternates members. Moved by: Diane Bemis; seconded by: Lauren DuBreuil Motion Carries 4-0
The minutes give the count as 4-0, but 5 members were at the meeting (Steven Sharek, Diane Bemis, Lauren DuBreuil, Patrick Thayer and Michele Tousignant Dufour). Showing the count only.
From the minutes
“ACTION: Select Board moved to appoint Shushma Singh, Christopher Monsini as full members of the Town Manager's Search Committee and to appoint Sara Frost, Patrick Boyle, and Alicia Smith as alternates members. Moved by: Diane Bemis; seconded by: Lauren DuBreuil Motion Carries 4-0.” (Motion: Bemis, second: DuBreuil)
Aug 31Consider approving the updated job description for the Payroll…Motion: ACTION: Select Board voted to consider approving the updated job description…Failed 2–2 · No: DuBreuil, Sharek
August 31, 2026: Consider approving the updated job description for the Payroll Coordinator position
ACTION: Select Board voted to consider approving the updated job description for the Payroll Coordinator position. Moved by: Diane Bemis; seconded by: Patrick Thayer Yea: Diane Bemis and Patrick Thayer Nay: Steven Sharek and Lauren DuBreuil Motion Fails 2-2
Yes: Bemis, ThayerNo: DuBreuil, Sharek
From the minutes
“ACTION: Select Board voted to consider approving the updated job description for the Payroll Coordinator position. Moved by: Diane Bemis; seconded by: Patrick Thayer Yea: Diane Bemis and Patrick Thayer Nay: Steven Sharek and Lauren DuBreuil Motion Fails 2-2.” (Motion: Bemis, second: Thayer)
Aug 31Consider the job description for the Benefits Coordinator position…Motion: ACTION: Select Board moved to consider the job description for the…Failed 2–2 · No: DuBreuil, Sharek
August 31, 2026: Consider the job description for the Benefits Coordinator position (new)
ACTION: Select Board moved to consider the job description for the Benefits Coordinator position (new). Moved by: Diane Bemis; seconded by: Patrick Thayer Yea: Diane Bemis and Patrick Thayer Nay: Steven Sharek and Lauren DuBreuil Motion Fails 2-2
Yes: Bemis, ThayerNo: DuBreuil, Sharek
From the minutes
“ACTION: Select Board moved to consider the job description for the Benefits Coordinator position (new). Moved by: Diane Bemis; seconded by: Patrick Thayer Yea: Diane Bemis and Patrick Thayer Nay: Steven Sharek and Lauren DuBreuil Motion Fails 2-2.” (Motion: Bemis, second: Thayer)
Aug 31Appoint Shushma Singh and Christopher Monsini as membersMotion: ACTION: Select Board voted to appoint Shushma Singh and Christopher Monsini…Failed 2–2 · No: Bemis, Thayer
August 31, 2026: Appoint Shushma Singh and Christopher Monsini as members
ACTION: Select Board voted to appoint Shushma Singh and Christopher Monsini as members. Moved by: Lauren DuBreuil; seconded by: Steven Sharek Yea: Steven Sharek and Lauren DuBreuil Nay: Diane Bemis and Patrick Thayer Motion Fails 2-2
Yes: DuBreuil, SharekNo: Bemis, Thayer
From the minutes
“ACTION: Select Board voted to appoint Shushma Singh and Christopher Monsini as members. Moved by: Lauren DuBreuil; seconded by: Steven Sharek Yea: Steven Sharek and Lauren DuBreuil Nay: Diane Bemis and Patrick Thayer Motion Fails 2-2.” (Motion: DuBreuil, second: Sharek)
Jul 7Appoint Patricia Russell as the Town Tenant Board Member…Motion: ACTION: The Select Board moved to appoint Patricia Russell as the…Passed 3–1 · No: Bemis
July 7, 2026 (Special meeting): Appoint Patricia Russell as the Town Tenant Board Member to the Hudson Housing Authority Board of Commissioners with a term to expire on May 9, 2031
ACTION: The Select Board moved to appoint Patricia Russell as the Town Tenant Board Member to the Hudson Housing Authority Board of Commissioners with a term to expire on May 9, 2031. Moved by: Lauren DuBreuil; seconded by: Patrick Thayer Nay: Diane Bemis Motion Carries 3-1
Yes: DuBreuil, Sharek, ThayerNo: Bemis
From the minutes
“ACTION: The Select Board moved to appoint Patricia Russell as the Town Tenant Board Member to the Hudson Housing Authority Board of Commissioners with a term to expire on May 9, 2031. Moved by: Lauren DuBreuil; seconded by: Patrick Thayer Nay: Diane Bemis Motion Carries 3-1.” (Motion: DuBreuil, second: Thayer)
May 18Accept the FY2026 Town Manager Performance Review as presentedMotion: ACTION: The Select Board moved to accept the FY2026 Town Manager…Passed 3–0 · Abstained: Thayer
May 18, 2026: Accept the FY2026 Town Manager Performance Review as presented
ACTION: The Select Board moved to accept the FY2026 Town Manager Performance Review as presented. Moved by: Diane Bemis; seconded by: Lauren DuBreuil Abstain: Patrick Thayer Motion Carries 3-0-1
Yes: Bemis, DuBreuil, SharekAbstained: Thayer
From the minutes
“ACTION: The Select Board moved to accept the FY2026 Town Manager Performance Review as presented. Moved by: Diane Bemis; seconded by: Lauren DuBreuil Abstain: Patrick Thayer Motion Carries 3-0-1.” (Motion: Bemis, second: DuBreuil)
From the Hudson Select Board’s official minutes, posted in the town’s Agenda Center (Select Board). We check every vote against the Select Board members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Photos (the town’s website has no Select Board photos): Community Advocate — Michele Tousignant Dufour (Paul Hopkins, August 2026), Lauren DuBreuil and Patrick Thayer (candidate photos, May 2025), Steven Sharek and Diane Bemis (candidate photos, May 2024). Cropped by MassVoter. Former members show initials.
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