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Lincoln Select Board
How the Lincoln Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 3 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms. After the March 30, 2026 town election (Kim Bodnar continued on the board), on April 13, 2026 the board unanimously chose Jim Hutchinson as Chair by roll call. Minutes after September 21, 2026 are not posted yet. The end date is a placeholder. Covers 10 meetings so far, April 13 to September 21, 2026.
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 budgetVote Transparency Score
Lincoln Select Board: 6 out of 10 · Partly open
How easy Lincoln makes it to see, online, how each member votes. It scores the town’s records, not any official. Checked October 10, 2026.
- Minutes postedMinutes are posted for most, but not all, meetings more than three months old.Part points: 1/2
- Each vote namedVotes are roll calls that list how each member voted.Full points: 3/3
- Posted quicklySome meetings more than three months old still have no minutes.No points: 0/2
- Past years onlineSelect Board minutes from 2013 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
- Minutes posted (+1): Post approved minutes for every meeting on the town website. Don’t require a sign-in to view them.
- Posted quickly (+2): 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
Coming up
From the agendas Lincoln posts on its official site. Agendas can change; the posted agenda is the official one.
Members
✓ Every meeting 2026
Kim BodnarMember · At-large · at 10 of 10 meetings✓ Every meeting 2026
Jennifer GlassMember · At-large · 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.
Attendance
17 full-board meetings so far this year, through September 21. Ties share a rank.
1Kim Bodnar17 of 17 meetings Every meeting100%1Jennifer Glass17 of 17 meetings Every meeting100%3Jim Hutchinson16 of 17 meetings94%20 full-board meetings in 2025. Ties share a rank.
1Kim Bodnar20 of 20 meetings Every meeting100%1Jennifer Glass20 of 20 meetings Every meeting100%1Jim Hutchinson20 of 20 meetings Every meeting100%26 full-board meetings in 2024. Ties share a rank.
1Kim Bodnar26 of 26 meetings Every meeting100%1Jennifer Glass26 of 26 meetings Every meeting100%1Jim Hutchinson26 of 26 meetings Every meeting100%21 full-board meetings in 2023. Ties share a rank.
1Jennifer Glass21 of 21 meetings Every meeting100%1Jim Hutchinson21 of 21 meetings Every meeting100%1Kim Bodnar15 of 15 meetings · served from Apr Every meeting100%4Jonathan Dwyer5 of 6 meetings · served until Mar83%22 full-board meetings in 2022. Ties share a rank.
1Jonathan Dwyer22 of 22 meetings Every meeting100%1Jennifer Glass22 of 22 meetings Every meeting100%1James Craig8 of 8 meetings · served until Mar Every meeting100%4Jim Hutchinson12 of 14 meetings · served from Apr86%23 full-board meetings in 2021. Ties share a rank.
1Jennifer Glass23 of 23 meetings Every meeting100%2James Craig22 of 23 meetings96%2Jonathan Dwyer22 of 23 meetings96%29 full-board meetings in 2020. Ties share a rank.
1James Craig29 of 29 meetings Every meeting100%1Jonathan Dwyer29 of 29 meetings Every meeting100%3Jennifer Glass28 of 29 meetings97%21 full-board meetings in 2019. Ties share a rank.
1James Craig21 of 21 meetings Every meeting100%1Jonathan Dwyer21 of 21 meetings Every meeting100%1Jennifer Glass21 of 21 meetings Every meeting100%23 full-board meetings in 2018. Ties share a rank.
1Jonathan Dwyer23 of 23 meetings Every meeting100%2James Craig22 of 23 meetings96%2Jennifer Glass22 of 23 meetings96%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: Lincoln Select Board minutes from January 9, 2018 through September 21, 2026: 202 meetings and 1,438 votes. The board was called the Board of Selectmen until 2021; Article 24 of the May 15, 2021 Annual Town Meeting (a citizens’ petition) proposed the name Select Board, and the minutes use it from May 24, 2021 on. The town’s Agenda Center holds the board’s minutes back to 2013; MassVoter has loaded 2018 on. All minutes are typed documents with searchable text. Joint sessions with other boards (School Committee, Housing Commission, Board of Assessors, Water Commission, Planning Board, the Housing Choice Act Working Group and others) are included, but only the Select Board members’ votes are shown; votes the other board took on its own, and reports of other boards’ votes, are left out. Not here: votes taken inside executive session; the minutes of Town Meeting and State of the Town meetings; meetings with an agenda but no posted minutes (among them December 15, 2025, January 22, February 18, April 17, May 7, May 14 and June 18, 2026); and meetings after September 21, 2026 (the September 28, October 1 and October 5, 2026 minutes are not posted yet). Since spring 2020 Lincoln’s minutes record nearly every vote as a roll call by name (“the motion was approved unanimously with a roll call vote: Bodnar, Aye; Glass, Aye; Hutchinson, Aye”), and each member’s vote is shown as recorded. Before that, the minutes usually say “It was unanimously approved,” which is shown as every member present voting yes; when a member abstained or voted no, the minutes name that member. Where the minutes say only “the motion was approved” with no count or names, we show the result only (15 votes); where a split count names no one, or a roll call does not match the members present, we show the count only, with a note (2 votes). When a roll call leaves out a member who was at the meeting, the votes named are shown and that member is left out of the vote, with a note. Members who stepped aside (recused) are not shown as voting. Abstentions are shown as abstained. 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 10Retain the existing 1.5 residential factor for fiscal year…Motion: - Retain the existing 1.5 residential factor (the maximum shift permitted…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
September 10, 2026: Retain the existing 1.5 residential factor for fiscal year 2027
- Retain the existing 1.5 residential factor (the maximum shift permitted by law) for fiscal year 2027.
The minutes say “the Board considered and voted separately on each of the following recommendations. Each motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote (Bodnar - Aye; Glass - Aye; Hutchinson - Aye)”; they do not name the movers.
From the minutes
“- Retain the existing 1.5 residential factor (the maximum shift permitted by law) for fiscal year 2027..”
Sep 10Not adopt an open space discount for fiscal year…Motion: - Not adopt an open space discount, given its limited practical…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
September 10, 2026: Not adopt an open space discount for fiscal year 2027
- Not adopt an open space discount, given its limited practical effect under current law.
The minutes say “the Board considered and voted separately on each of the following recommendations. Each motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote (Bodnar - Aye; Glass - Aye; Hutchinson - Aye)”; they do not name the movers.
From the minutes
“- Not adopt an open space discount, given its limited practical effect under current law..”
Sep 10Not adopt a residential exemption for fiscal year 2027Motion: - Not adopt a residential exemption, noting the option is generally…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
September 10, 2026: Not adopt a residential exemption for fiscal year 2027
- Not adopt a residential exemption, noting the option is generally used by communities with a high proportion of non-resident-owned or seasonal homes and has previously been considered and rejected by the Town.
The minutes say “the Board considered and voted separately on each of the following recommendations. Each motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote (Bodnar - Aye; Glass - Aye; Hutchinson - Aye)”; they do not name the movers.
From the minutes
“- Not adopt a residential exemption, noting the option is generally used by communities with a high proportion of non-resident-owned or seasonal homes and has previously been considered and rejected by the Town..”
Sep 10Not adopt a small commercial exemption for fiscal year…Motion: - Not adopt a small commercial exemption, noting the option would…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
September 10, 2026: Not adopt a small commercial exemption for fiscal year 2027
- Not adopt a small commercial exemption, noting the option would be administratively burdensome relative to its limited benefit given Lincoln's small commercial base.
The minutes say “the Board considered and voted separately on each of the following recommendations. Each motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote (Bodnar - Aye; Glass - Aye; Hutchinson - Aye)”; they do not name the movers.
From the minutes
“- Not adopt a small commercial exemption, noting the option would be administratively burdensome relative to its limited benefit given Lincoln's small commercial base..”
From the Lincoln 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: Kim Bodnar from The Lincoln Squirrel’s candidate photo (March 2023); Jim Hutchinson and Jennifer Glass cropped from a captioned group photo in The Lincoln Squirrel (“Board accepts $1.35 million in donations for community center,” May 2026).
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