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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 was re-elected at the March 25, 2019 town election. On April 8, 2019 the board unanimously chose Jennifer Glass as Chair. Because of COVID-19 the board moved the 2020 town election to June 15, 2020 (vote of May 4, 2020), so this board year ran until June 2020; from March 23, 2020 the board met virtually. Covers 33 meetings, April 8 to June 13, 2020.
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 33 of 33 meetingsJonathan DwyerMember · At-large · at 33 of 33 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.
Dec 9Approve the minutes of October 7, 2019Motion: Mr. Craig made a motion to approve the minutes of October…Passed 2–0 · see note
December 9, 2019: Approve the minutes of October 7, 2019
Mr. Craig made a motion to approve the minutes of October 7, 2019. Ms. Glass seconded the motion. They were approved unanimously.
Yes: Craig, GlassThe minutes say “Mr. Dwyer left the meeting to attend a Capcom meeting” before this vote; the two members still present are shown voting yes.
From the minutes
“Mr. Craig made a motion to approve the minutes of October 7, 2019. Ms. Glass seconded the motion. They were approved unanimously..” (Motion: Craig, second: Glass)
Dec 9Approve the minutes of October 21, 2019Motion: Mr. Craig made a motion to approve the minutes of October…Passed 2–0 · see note
December 9, 2019: Approve the minutes of October 21, 2019
Mr. Craig made a motion to approve the minutes of October 21, 2019. Ms. Glass seconded the motion. They were approved unanimously.
Yes: Craig, GlassThe minutes say “Mr. Dwyer left the meeting to attend a Capcom meeting” before this vote; the two members still present are shown voting yes.
From the minutes
“Mr. Craig made a motion to approve the minutes of October 21, 2019. Ms. Glass seconded the motion. They were approved unanimously..” (Motion: Craig, second: Glass)
Jun 17Approve the historic preservation restriction agreement for the Giese…Motion: Mr. Dwyer made a motion to approve the historic preservation restriction…Passed 2–0 · Abstained: Glass
June 17, 2019: Approve the historic preservation restriction agreement for the Giese property at 32 Tower Road
Mr. Dwyer made a motion to approve the historic preservation restriction agreement for the Giese property at 32 Tower Road. Mr. Craig seconded the motion. With Ms. Glass abstaining from the vote, the motion was approved.
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 made a motion to approve the historic preservation restriction agreement for the Giese property at 32 Tower Road. Mr. Craig seconded the motion. With Ms. Glass abstaining from the vote, the motion was approved..” (Motion: Dwyer, second: Craig)
Jun 17Approve Mr. Craig signing the Historic Preservation Restriction as…Motion: Ms. Glass made a motion to approve Mr. Craig signing the…Passed 2–0 · Abstained: Glass
June 17, 2019: Approve Mr. Craig signing the Historic Preservation Restriction as presented
Ms. Glass made a motion to approve Mr. Craig signing the Historic Preservation Restriction as presented. It was approved with Ms. Glass abstaining
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
“Ms. Glass made a motion to approve Mr. Craig signing the Historic Preservation Restriction as presented. It was approved with Ms. Glass abstaining.” (Motion: Glass)
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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