How the Lexington Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 5 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms. Suzanne Barry served as Chair, with Peter Kelley, Michelle Ciccolo, Joseph Pato and Douglas Lucente. MassVoter has loaded this board’s minutes from January 8, 2018 on; the Vice Chair is not named in the loaded minutes (Michelle Ciccolo acted as Chair on January 8, 2018). Peter Kelley’s last meeting was February 26, 2018; Jill Hai joined after the March 5, 2018 town election. The minutes call the board the Board of Selectmen. Covers 23 meetings, January 8 to May 2, 2018.
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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.
In Lexington, Town Meeting — not the Select Board — votes the town budget, bylaws and zoning. Here is what it did with each article, in the Town Clerk’s own words. Town Meeting members are elected by precinct; counts are from the town’s electronic voting.
Annual Town Meeting · March 30, 2026 61 votes: 56 passed, 2 passed as amended, 1 failed, 2 indefinitely postponed
Sessions: March 30, April 6, 8, 13, 15, 27, 29 and May 4, 2026
Art. 27Resolution on financial transparency for major capital projects, with a report at the fall 2026 STM (citizen petition, as amended)Passed as amended“MOTION CARRIES · Yes 162, No 11, Abstain 1”
Art. 8Resolution asking the state school building authority (MSBA) to fund the high school project in two phases (citizen petition)Failed“MOTION FAILS · Yes 11, No 157, Abstain 8”
Not here yet: the Town Clerk's minutes of Special Town Meeting 2025-2 (November 3, 2025); its results here come from the Town's posted actions table and electronic vote totals. Special Town Meeting 2026-1 meets November 9, 2026.
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).
"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
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Loaded: Lexington Select Board minutes from January 8, 2018 through August 31, 2026: 428 meetings (including joint meetings, budget summits and retreats) and 2,640 votes. The town’s Laserfiche archive holds the board’s minutes back to the 1920s; MassVoter has loaded 2018 on. The 2019 Annual Town Meeting voted to rename the Board of Selectmen the Select Board; the special act was signed January 14, 2020, and the minutes use the new name from January 16, 2020. All minutes are typed documents with searchable text. Not here: executive-session minutes; cancelled meetings and executive-session-only meetings; votes of the School Committee, Planning Board, Appropriation Committee, Capital Expenditures Committee and other boards at joint meetings; meetings with no posted minutes: August 2020 through January 2021 and April 2021 (no minutes are posted for these months), and, with an agenda posted but no minutes, the board’s short meetings before Town Meeting on November 3, 2022, November 14, 2024, April 16, 2025 and November 4, 2025, February 16, 2023 (FY2024 budget vote), November 4, 2024 (summit), and the retreats of August 31, 2022, January 11, 2023, October 11, 2023 and August 25, 2026; February 23, 2026 (the board approved these minutes on March 30, 2026, but the file posted for that date is a copy of the January 27, 2025 minutes); and meetings after August 31, 2026 (the September and October 2026 minutes are not posted yet). Lexington’s minutes usually read “VOTE: Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Select Board voted 5-0 to …” (by roll call when the meeting is remote or hybrid), with the members present listed at the top; when the count matches the members present, every member present is shown voting yes. Mover and seconder are not named. A member who votes no or abstains is often named (“Mr. Lucente cast the dissenting vote”, “with Ms. Hai against”) and is then shown by name; where a split count names no one (“voted 3-2”) we show the count only, with a note (54 votes), and where the minutes give no count or names we show the result only (7 votes). The board also takes positions on Town Meeting articles, recorded in position charts, tables or lists in the minutes (support, oppose, wait, recused); MassVoter shows each article position as a vote (417 positions), leaving out members who were waiting or recused, with a note. Members who recused themselves are not shown in that vote; members who arrived late or left early are shown only in the votes they were there for. A motion with no recorded outcome is not counted as a vote. We will ask the town to confirm any noted vote.
Most board votes are unanimous. These are the ones where at least one member voted no or abstained, newest first.
Apr 23Approve Water & Sewer Commitment Cycle 9 billing February…Motion: Upon motion duly made and seconded, the Board of Selectmen voted…Passed 4–0 · see note
April 23, 2018: Approve Water & Sewer Commitment Cycle 9 billing February 2018 $ 259,032.34 and Water & Sewer Adjustments as recommended by Water/Sewer Advisory Board March 15, 2018 $ (56,006.89)
ApprovePassed · 4–0
Upon motion duly made and seconded, the Board of Selectmen voted 4-0 to approve Water & Sewer Commitment Cycle 9 billing February 2018 $ 259,032.34 and Water & Sewer Adjustments as recommended by Water/Sewer Advisory Board March 15, 2018 $ (56,006.89).
Yes: Barry, Ciccolo, Lucente, PatoThe minutes say “Ms. Hai recused herself as her address is on the list of adjustments.” The count (4-0) matches the 4 other members present, so that member is not shown voting.
From the minutes
“Upon motion duly made and seconded, the Board of Selectmen voted 4-0 to approve Water & Sewer Commitment Cycle 9 billing February 2018 $ 259,032.34 and Water & Sewer Adjustments as recommended by Water/Sewer Advisory Board March 15, 2018 $ (56,006.89)..”
Apr 23Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 4 (Appropriate…Motion: 4 Appropriate FY2019 Operating Budget Y Y Y Y YPassed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 23, 2018: Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 4 (Appropriate FY2019 Operating Budget): support
ApprovePassed · Unanimous, 5 present
4 Appropriate FY2019 Operating Budget Y Y Y Y Y
From the “Selectmen’s Positions” chart appended to the April 23, 2018 minutes (the last chart for the 2018 Annual Town Meeting): each member’s position is marked Y (support), N (do not support), IP (indefinitely postpone), W (wait) or R (recused). The members set these positions at meetings from March 7, 2018 on; this is the chart’s final record.
From the minutes
“4 Appropriate FY2019 Operating Budget Y Y Y Y Y.”
Apr 23Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 5 (Appropriate…Motion: 5 Appropriate FY2019 Enterprise Funds Budgets Y Y Y Y YPassed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 23, 2018: Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 5 (Appropriate FY2019 Enterprise Funds Budgets): support
ApprovePassed · Unanimous, 5 present
5 Appropriate FY2019 Enterprise Funds Budgets Y Y Y Y Y
From the “Selectmen’s Positions” chart appended to the April 23, 2018 minutes (the last chart for the 2018 Annual Town Meeting): each member’s position is marked Y (support), N (do not support), IP (indefinitely postpone), W (wait) or R (recused). The members set these positions at meetings from March 7, 2018 on; this is the chart’s final record.
From the minutes
“5 Appropriate FY2019 Enterprise Funds Budgets Y Y Y Y Y.”
Apr 23Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 6 (Appropriate…Motion: 6 IP - Appropriate for Senior Services Program IP IP IP…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 23, 2018: Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 6 (Appropriate for Senior Services Program): indefinitely postpone
ApprovePassed · Unanimous, 5 present
6 IP - Appropriate for Senior Services Program IP IP IP IP IP
From the “Selectmen’s Positions” chart appended to the April 23, 2018 minutes (the last chart for the 2018 Annual Town Meeting): each member’s position is marked Y (support), N (do not support), IP (indefinitely postpone), W (wait) or R (recused). Every member shown voting yes marked IP. The members set these positions at meetings from March 7, 2018 on; this is the chart’s final record.
From the minutes
“6 IP - Appropriate for Senior Services Program IP IP IP IP IP.”
Apr 23Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 7 (Appropriate…Motion: Appropriate for Advice and Analysis-Getting to 7 Y Y Y Y…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 23, 2018: Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 7 (Appropriate for Advice and Analysis-Getting to Net Zero): support
ApprovePassed · Unanimous, 5 present
Appropriate for Advice and Analysis-Getting to 7 Y Y Y Y Y Net Zero
From the “Selectmen’s Positions” chart appended to the April 23, 2018 minutes (the last chart for the 2018 Annual Town Meeting): each member’s position is marked Y (support), N (do not support), IP (indefinitely postpone), W (wait) or R (recused). The members set these positions at meetings from March 7, 2018 on; this is the chart’s final record.
From the minutes
“Appropriate for Advice and Analysis-Getting to 7 Y Y Y Y Y Net Zero.”
Apr 23Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 8 (Appropriate…Motion: Appropriate to create Diversity Advisory Task 8 Y Y Y Y…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 23, 2018: Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 8 (Appropriate to create Diversity Advisory Task Force): support
ApprovePassed · Unanimous, 5 present
Appropriate to create Diversity Advisory Task 8 Y Y Y Y Y Force
From the “Selectmen’s Positions” chart appended to the April 23, 2018 minutes (the last chart for the 2018 Annual Town Meeting): each member’s position is marked Y (support), N (do not support), IP (indefinitely postpone), W (wait) or R (recused). The members set these positions at meetings from March 7, 2018 on; this is the chart’s final record.
From the minutes
“Appropriate to create Diversity Advisory Task 8 Y Y Y Y Y Force.”
Apr 23Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 9 (Establish…Motion: Establish and Continue Departmental Revolving 9 Y Y Y Y Y…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 23, 2018: Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 9 (Establish and Continue Departmental Revolving Funds): support
ApprovePassed · Unanimous, 5 present
Establish and Continue Departmental Revolving 9 Y Y Y Y Y Funds
From the “Selectmen’s Positions” chart appended to the April 23, 2018 minutes (the last chart for the 2018 Annual Town Meeting): each member’s position is marked Y (support), N (do not support), IP (indefinitely postpone), W (wait) or R (recused). The members set these positions at meetings from March 7, 2018 on; this is the chart’s final record.
From the minutes
“Establish and Continue Departmental Revolving 9 Y Y Y Y Y Funds.”
Apr 23Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 10(a) (Community…Motion: a. IP - Conservation Land Acquisition- TBD IP IP IP IP…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 23, 2018: Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 10(a) (Community Preservation Committee operating budget and CPA projects: Conservation Land Acquisition- TBD): indefinitely postpone
ApprovePassed · Unanimous, 5 present
A. IP - Conservation Land Acquisition- TBD IP IP IP IP IP
From the “Selectmen’s Positions” chart appended to the April 23, 2018 minutes (the last chart for the 2018 Annual Town Meeting): each member’s position is marked Y (support), N (do not support), IP (indefinitely postpone), W (wait) or R (recused). Every member shown voting yes marked IP. The members set these positions at meetings from March 7, 2018 on; this is the chart’s final record.
From the minutes
“a. IP - Conservation Land Acquisition- TBD IP IP IP IP IP.”
Apr 23Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 10(b) (Community…Motion: b. Community Center Sidewalk- TBD Y Y Y Y YPassed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 23, 2018: Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 10(b) (Community Preservation Committee operating budget and CPA projects: Community Center Sidewalk- TBD): support
ApprovePassed · Unanimous, 5 present
B. Community Center Sidewalk- TBD Y Y Y Y Y
From the “Selectmen’s Positions” chart appended to the April 23, 2018 minutes (the last chart for the 2018 Annual Town Meeting): each member’s position is marked Y (support), N (do not support), IP (indefinitely postpone), W (wait) or R (recused). The members set these positions at meetings from March 7, 2018 on; this is the chart’s final record.
Apr 23Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 10(c) (Community…Motion: c. Archives & Records Management/Records Y Y Y Y Y Conservation…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note
April 23, 2018: Position on 2018 Annual Town Meeting Article 10(c) (Community Preservation Committee operating budget and CPA projects: Archives & Records Management/Records Conservation & Preservation - $20,000): su
ApprovePassed · Unanimous, 5 present
C. Archives & Records Management/Records Y Y Y Y Y Conservation & Preservation - $20,000
From the “Selectmen’s Positions” chart appended to the April 23, 2018 minutes (the last chart for the 2018 Annual Town Meeting): each member’s position is marked Y (support), N (do not support), IP (indefinitely postpone), W (wait) or R (recused). The members set these positions at meetings from March 7, 2018 on; this is the chart’s final record.
From the minutes
“c. Archives & Records Management/Records Y Y Y Y Y Conservation & Preservation - $20,000.”
From the Lexington Select Board’s official minutes, posted in the town’s Laserfiche records archive (Select Board minutes). We check every vote against the Select Board members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Select Board photos: Town of Lexington (lexingtonma.gov), from the official Select Board page. Former members show initials.