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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. Diane Bemis and Steven Sharek were elected on May 13, 2024 to the two open seats (Michael Burks’s and the one left by Shawn Sadowski). On May 20, 2024 the board voted 5-0 for Scott Duplisea as Chairman, Judy Congdon as Vice Chairman and Steven Sharek as Clerk. From December 2024 the minutes name the mover and seconder in full and list no and abstain votes by name. Covers 25 meetings, May 20 to May 6, 2025.
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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 budgetBoard years
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Members
Diane BemisMember · At-large · at 22 of 25 meetingsJames QuinnMember · At-large · at 17 of 25 meetings
Steven SharekClerk · At-large · at 23 of 25 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: 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.
Apr 28Approve of the Public Session Minutes of April 7,…Motion: ACTION: The Select Board moved to approve of the Public Session…Passed 4–0 · Abstained: Bemis
April 28, 2025: Approve of the Public Session Minutes of April 7, 2025
ACTION: The Select Board moved to approve of the Public Session Minutes of April 7, 2025. Moved by: Steven Sharek Seconded by: Scott Duplisea Motion Carries 4-0-1 Abstention by: Diane Bemis
Yes: Congdon, Duplisea, Quinn, SharekAbstained: Bemis
From the minutes
“ACTION: The Select Board moved to approve of the Public Session Minutes of April 7, 2025. Moved by: Steven Sharek Seconded by: Scott Duplisea Motion Carries 4-0-1 Abstention by: Diane Bemis.” (Motion: Sharek, second: Duplisea)
Apr 7Authorize the revisions to the Town's Personnel RegulationsMotion: ACTION: The Select Board moved by roll call to authorize the…Passed 3–1 · No: Congdon
April 7, 2025: Authorize the revisions to the Town's Personnel Regulations
ACTION: The Select Board moved by roll call to authorize the revisions to the Town's Personnel Regulations. Moved by: James Quinn Seconded by: Steven Sharek Motion Carries 3-1 Opposed by: Judy Congdon
Yes: Duplisea, Quinn, SharekNo: Congdon
From the minutes
“ACTION: The Select Board moved by roll call to authorize the revisions to the Town's Personnel Regulations. Moved by: James Quinn Seconded by: Steven Sharek Motion Carries 3-1 Opposed by: Judy Congdon.” (Motion: Quinn, second: Sharek)
Mar 24Approve the public session minutes of March 10, 2025Motion: ACTION: The Select Board moved by roll call to approve the…Passed 4–0 · see note
March 24, 2025: Approve the public session minutes of March 10, 2025
ACTION: The Select Board moved by roll call to approve the public session minutes of March 10, 2025. Moved by: Diane Bemis Seconded by: Scott Duplisea Motion Carries 4-0-1
The minutes give the count as 4-0-1 but do not say who voted no or abstained. Showing the count only.
From the minutes
“ACTION: The Select Board moved by roll call to approve the public session minutes of March 10, 2025. Moved by: Diane Bemis Seconded by: Scott Duplisea Motion Carries 4-0-1.” (Motion: Bemis, second: Duplisea)
Feb 24Approve the public session minutes of February 10, 2025Motion: ACTION: The Select Board moved by roll call to approve the…Passed 3–0 · see note
February 24, 2025: Approve the public session minutes of February 10, 2025
ACTION: The Select Board moved by roll call to approve the public session minutes of February 10, 2025. Motion Carries 3-0-2 Moved by: Diane Bemis Seconded by: Steven Sharek
The minutes give the count as 3-0-2 but do not say who voted no or abstained. Showing the count only.
From the minutes
“ACTION: The Select Board moved by roll call to approve the public session minutes of February 10, 2025. Motion Carries 3-0-2 Moved by: Diane Bemis Seconded by: Steven Sharek.” (Motion: Bemis, second: Sharek)
Feb 24Approve becoming a participating community of the Nashoba Valley…Motion: ACTION: The Select Board moved by roll call to approve becoming…Passed 4–1 · see note
February 24, 2025: Approve becoming a participating community of the Nashoba Valley Regional Dispatch District and to authorize the Executive Assistant to sign the District Agreement on behalf of the Board
ACTION: The Select Board moved by roll call to approve becoming a participating community of the Nashoba Valley Regional Dispatch District and to authorize the Executive Assistant to sign the District Agreement on behalf of the Board. Motion Carries 4-1 Moved by: Diane Bemis Seconded by: Steven Sharek
The minutes give the count as 4-1 but do not say who voted no or abstained. Showing the count only.
From the minutes
“ACTION: The Select Board moved by roll call to approve becoming a participating community of the Nashoba Valley Regional Dispatch District and to authorize the Executive Assistant to sign the District Agreement on behalf of the Board. Motion Carries 4-1 Moved by: Diane Bemis Seconded by: Steven Sharek.” (Motion: Bemis, second: Sharek)
Dec 16Approve the public session minutes of December 2, 2024Motion: ACTION: The Select Board moves to approve the public session minutes…Passed 3–0 · see note
December 16, 2024: Approve the public session minutes of December 2, 2024
ACTION: The Select Board moves to approve the public session minutes of December 2, 2024. Moved by: Steven Sharek Seconded by: Diane Bemis Motion Carries 3-0-1
The minutes give the count as 3-0-1 but do not say who voted no or abstained. Showing the count only.
From the minutes
“ACTION: The Select Board moves to approve the public session minutes of December 2, 2024. Moved by: Steven Sharek Seconded by: Diane Bemis Motion Carries 3-0-1.” (Motion: Sharek, second: Bemis)
Dec 2Approve the public session minutes of November 4, 2024Motion: On a motion by Mr. Sharek, seconded by Ms. Bemis the…Passed 3–0 · see note
December 2, 2024: Approve the public session minutes of November 4, 2024
On a motion by Mr. Sharek, seconded by Ms. Bemis the board voted 3-0-1 to approve the public session minutes of November 4, 2024.
The minutes give the count as 3-0-1 but do not say who voted no or abstained. Showing the count only.
From the minutes
“On a motion by Mr. Sharek, seconded by Ms. Bemis the board voted 3-0-1 to approve the public session minutes of November 4, 2024..” (Motion: Sharek, second: Bemis)
Dec 2Approve the public session minutes of November 4, 2024Motion: On a motion by Mr. Sharek, seconded by Ms. Bemis the…Passed 3–0 · see note
December 2, 2024: Approve the public session minutes of November 4, 2024
On a motion by Mr. Sharek, seconded by Ms. Bemis the board voted 3-0-1 to approve the public session minutes of November 4, 2024.
The minutes give the count as 3-0-1 but do not say who voted no or abstained. Showing the count only.
From the minutes
“On a motion by Mr. Sharek, seconded by Ms. Bemis the board voted 3-0-1 to approve the public session minutes of November 4, 2024..” (Motion: Sharek, second: Bemis)
Oct 21Approve the Public Session Minutes of October 7, 2024Motion: On a motion by Ms. Congdon, seconded by Ms. Bemis the…Passed 3–0 · see note
October 21, 2024: Approve the Public Session Minutes of October 7, 2024
On a motion by Ms. Congdon, seconded by Ms. Bemis the board voted 3-0 by roll call to approve the Public Session Minutes of October 7, 2024.
Yes: Bemis, Congdon, DupliseaJames Quinn arrived at 7:02 PM after this vote and is not shown voting.
From the minutes
“On a motion by Ms. Congdon, seconded by Ms. Bemis the board voted 3-0 by roll call to approve the Public Session Minutes of October 7, 2024..” (Motion: Congdon, second: Bemis)
Sep 23Amend the Tri-Board session minutes of September 5, 2024…Motion: On a motion by Ms. Congdon, seconded by Ms. Bemis, the…Passed 4–0 · see note
September 23, 2024: Amend the Tri-Board session minutes of September 5, 2024 to add Finance Committee appearing as residents and not members of the board in Call to Order
On a motion by Ms. Congdon, seconded by Ms. Bemis, the board voted 4-0-1 to amend the Tri-Board session minutes of September 5, 2024 to add Finance Committee appearing as residents and not members of the board in Call to Order.
The minutes give the count as 4-0-1 but do not say who voted no or abstained. Showing the count only.
From the minutes
“On a motion by Ms. Congdon, seconded by Ms. Bemis, the board voted 4-0-1 to amend the Tri-Board session minutes of September 5, 2024 to add Finance Committee appearing as residents and not members of the board in Call to Order..” (Motion: Congdon, second: Bemis)
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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