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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 2018 town election, on April 9, 2018 the board unanimously chose Jonathan Dwyer as Chair (motion by Jennifer Glass). The same three members served all year. Covers 22 meetings, April 9 to March 18, 2019.
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 budgetBoard years
Coming up
From the agendas Lincoln posts on its official site. Agendas can change; the posted agenda is the official one.
Members
James CraigMember · At-large · at 22 of 22 meetings
Jennifer GlassMember · At-large · at 21 of 22 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 4Not take a position on this ArticleMotion: Mr. Craig made a motion to not take a position on…Passed 2–1 · No: Glass
March 4, 2019: Not take a position on this Article
Mr. Craig made a motion to not take a position on this Article. Mr. Dwyer seconded the motion. With Mr. Craig and Mr. Dwyer voting yes and Ms. Glass voting no, the motion was approved.
Yes: Craig, DwyerNo: Glass
From the minutes
“Mr. Craig made a motion to not take a position on this Article. Mr. Dwyer seconded the motion. With Mr. Craig and Mr. Dwyer voting yes and Ms. Glass voting no, the motion was approved..” (Motion: Craig, second: Dwyer)
Nov 13Appoint Mr. Hoag to fill the School Committee vacancy…Motion: Mr. Christenfeld nominated Mr. Hoag to fill the vacancy left by…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
November 13, 2018: Appoint Mr. Hoag to fill the School Committee vacancy left by Mr. Schmertzler (joint vote with the School Committee)
Mr. Christenfeld nominated Mr. Hoag to fill the vacancy left by Mr. Schmertzler's resignation. Mr. Borden seconded the nomination. With a unanimous roll call vote of both the School Committee and the Board of Selectmen, Mr. Hoag was appointed to the School Committee.
Joint vote of the School Committee and the Board of Selectmen to fill a School Committee vacancy. School Committee members Mr. Christenfeld and Mr. Borden nominated and seconded; the minutes say “With a unanimous roll call vote of both the School Committee and the Board of Selectmen, Mr. Hoag was appointed.” The three Select Board members present are shown voting yes.
From the minutes
“Mr. Christenfeld nominated Mr. Hoag to fill the vacancy left by Mr. Schmertzler's resignation. Mr. Borden seconded the nomination. With a unanimous roll call vote of both the School Committee and the Board of Selectmen, Mr. Hoag was appointed to the School Committee..”
Oct 29Accept the decision of the Planning Board and approve…Motion: Ms. Glass made a motion to accept the decision of the…Passed 2–1 · see note
October 29, 2018: Accept the decision of the Planning Board and approve the curb cut for 88 Old Sudbury Road
Ms. Glass made a motion to accept the decision of the Planning Board and approve the curb cut for 88 Old Sudbury Road. Mr. Dwyer seconded the motion. It was approved with a vote of 2-1.
The minutes give the count as 2-1 but do not say who voted no or abstained. Showing the count only.
From the minutes
“Ms. Glass made a motion to accept the decision of the Planning Board and approve the curb cut for 88 Old Sudbury Road. Mr. Dwyer seconded the motion. It was approved with a vote of 2-1..” (Motion: Glass, 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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