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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. James Craig served as Chair, with Jonathan Dwyer and Jennifer Glass; the board was then called the Board of Selectmen. MassVoter has loaded this board’s minutes from January 9, 2018 on. The start date is a placeholder. Covers 7 meetings, January 9 to March 19, 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.
Sources: Massachusetts Select Board Handbook (MMA) · Mass. Division of Local Services: the town budgetBoard years
Coming up
From the agendas Lincoln posts on its official site. Agendas can change; the posted agenda is the official one.
Members
Jonathan DwyerMember · At-large · at 7 of 7 meetings
Jennifer GlassMember · At-large · at 7 of 7 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: 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.
Mar 5Support the Mothers Out Front warrant article as amendedMotion: Mr. Dwyer asked for a motion to support the Mother's Out…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
March 5, 2018: Support the Mothers Out Front warrant article as amended
Mr. Dwyer asked for a motion to support the Mother's Out Front warrant article as amended, including Mr. Higgins' suggested revision to support the specific Bill "or other similar legislation". Ms. Glass seconded the motion. It was unanimously approved.
The minutes say Mr. Dwyer (Chair) “asked for a motion” and Ms. Glass seconded; they do not say who made the motion.
From the minutes
“Mr. Dwyer asked for a motion to support the Mother's Out Front warrant article as amended, including Mr. Higgins' suggested revision to support the specific Bill "or other similar legislation". Ms. Glass seconded the motion. It was unanimously approved..” (second: Glass)
Mar 5Endorse Article #28Motion: Mr. Dwyer moved to endorse Article #28, Mr. Craig seconded. With…Passed 2–0 · Abstained: Glass
March 5, 2018: Endorse Article #28
Mr. Dwyer moved to endorse Article #28, Mr. Craig seconded. With Ms. Glass abstaining, the motion was passed with a majority vote.
Yes: Craig, DwyerAbstained: GlassThe minutes say Jennifer Glass abstained and record the motion as passed; the other members present are shown voting yes.
From the minutes
“Mr. Dwyer moved to endorse Article #28, Mr. Craig seconded. With Ms. Glass abstaining, the motion was passed with a majority vote..” (Motion: Dwyer, second: Craig)
Feb 26Endorse the Lincoln-Sudbury Environmental Club's Plastic Water Bottle Ban…Motion: Ms. Glass made a motion to endorse the Lincoln-Sudbury Environmental Club's…Passed · see note
February 26, 2018: Endorse the Lincoln-Sudbury Environmental Club's Plastic Water Bottle Ban article
Ms. Glass made a motion to endorse the Lincoln-Sudbury Environmental Club's Plastic Water Bottle Ban article. Mr. Dwyer seconded the motion. Mr. Craig did not vote to endorse the article, but with a majority vote it was passed.
The minutes say “Mr. Craig did not vote to endorse the article, but with a majority vote it was passed”; they do not say whether he voted no or abstained, so we show the result only.
From the minutes
“Ms. Glass made a motion to endorse the Lincoln-Sudbury Environmental Club's Plastic Water Bottle Ban article. Mr. Dwyer seconded the motion. Mr. Craig did not vote to endorse the article, but with a majority vote it was passed..” (Motion: Glass, second: Dwyer)
Feb 26Approve the minutes of February 16, 2018Motion: Ms. Glass moved to approve the minutes of February 16, 2018.…Passed 2–0 · Abstained: Craig
February 26, 2018: Approve the minutes of February 16, 2018
Ms. Glass moved to approve the minutes of February 16, 2018. Mr. Dwyer seconded. With Mr. Craig abstaining from the vote, the minutes were approved.
Yes: Dwyer, GlassAbstained: CraigThe minutes say James Craig abstained and record the motion as passed; the other members present are shown voting yes.
From the minutes
“Ms. Glass moved to approve the minutes of February 16, 2018. Mr. Dwyer seconded. With Mr. Craig abstaining from the vote, the minutes were approved..” (Motion: Glass, second: Dwyer)
Jan 9Appoint Jay Talerman, special legal counsel in the McLean…Motion: Special Municipal Employee - moved that the Board vote to appoint…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
January 9, 2018: Appoint Jay Talerman, special legal counsel in the McLean matter, as a special municipal employee
Special Municipal Employee - moved that the Board vote to appoint Jay Talerman, special legal counsel in the McLean matter, as a special municipal employee pursuant to provisions in MGL C268A. Mr. Dwyer seconded. It was unanimously approved.
The minutes do not say who made this motion (“- moved that the Board vote to appoint Jay Talerman”); Mr. Dwyer seconded and “It was unanimously approved.”
From the minutes
“Special Municipal Employee - moved that the Board vote to appoint Jay Talerman, special legal counsel in the McLean matter, as a special municipal employee pursuant to provisions in MGL C268A. Mr. Dwyer seconded. It was unanimously approved..” (second: Dwyer)
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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