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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. Jim Hutchinson was re-elected at the March 31, 2025 town election. On April 14, 2025 the board unanimously chose Jennifer Glass as Chair by roll call. The same three members served all year. Covers 21 meetings, April 14 to March 28, 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 budgetBoard years
Coming up
From the agendas Lincoln posts on its official site. Agendas can change; the posted agenda is the official one.
Members
Kim BodnarMember · At-large · at 21 of 21 meetings
Jim HutchinsonMember · At-large · at 21 of 21 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 28Support Article #35Motion: Mr. Hutchinson made a motion to support Article #35. Ms. Bodnar…Passed 2–1 · No: Glass
March 28, 2026: Support Article #35
Mr. Hutchinson made a motion to support Article #35. Ms. Bodnar seconded the motion. The motion was approved by roll call vote, Bodnar: aye; Glass: nay; Hutchinson: aye.
Yes: Bodnar, HutchinsonNo: Glass
From the minutes
“Mr. Hutchinson made a motion to support Article #35. Ms. Bodnar seconded the motion. The motion was approved by roll call vote, Bodnar: aye; Glass: nay; Hutchinson: aye..” (Motion: Hutchinson, second: Bodnar)
Jan 26Approve the consent listMotion: Ms. Bodnar made a motion to approve the consent list. Ms.…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
January 26, 2026: Approve the consent list
Ms. Bodnar made a motion to approve the consent list. Ms. Bodnar seconded. The motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote: Bodnar, aye; Glass, aye; Hutchinson, aye.
The minutes name Kim Bodnar as both the mover and the seconder, so no seconder is shown.
From the minutes
“Ms. Bodnar made a motion to approve the consent list. Ms. Bodnar seconded. The motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote: Bodnar, aye; Glass, aye; Hutchinson, aye..” (Motion: Bodnar)
Nov 17Approve the November 11, 2025 warrantsMotion: Mr. Hutchinson made a motion to approve the November 11, 2025…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
November 17, 2025: Approve the November 11, 2025 warrants
Mr. Hutchinson made a motion to approve the November 11, 2025 warrants. Mr. Hutchinson seconded the motion. With no further discussion, the motion was approved unanimously with a roll call vote: Bodnar, Aye; Glass, Aye; Hutchinson, Aye.
The minutes name Jim Hutchinson as both the mover and the seconder, so no seconder is shown.
From the minutes
“Mr. Hutchinson made a motion to approve the November 11, 2025 warrants. Mr. Hutchinson seconded the motion. With no further discussion, the motion was approved unanimously with a roll call vote: Bodnar, Aye; Glass, Aye; Hutchinson, Aye..” (Motion: Hutchinson)
Jun 2Approve a letter of support for the Panetta/Farrington project,…Motion: Additionally, the Board voted unanimously to approve a letter of support…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
June 2, 2025: Approve a letter of support for the Panetta/Farrington project, emphasizing how it aligns with the town's core values of conservation and thoughtful stewardship of land and housing by preserving...
Additionally, the Board voted unanimously to approve a letter of support for the Panetta/Farrington project, emphasizing how it aligns with the town's core values of conservation and thoughtful stewardship of land and housing by preserving 77 acres of undeveloped land through a $950,000 Community Preservation Act investment, which they consider a generational opportunity given Lincoln's land costs.
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“Additionally, the Board voted unanimously to approve a letter of support for the Panetta/Farrington project, emphasizing how it aligns with the town's core values of conservation and thoughtful stewardship of land and housing by preserving 77 acres of undeveloped land through a $950,000 Community Preservation Act investment, which they consider a generational opportunity given Lincoln's land costs..”
Jun 2Rescind the May 19, 2025 vote calling a June…Motion: Canceling the Special Election - Moved, as a special election is…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
June 2, 2025: Rescind the May 19, 2025 vote calling a June 26, 2025 special election on a debt exclusion question
Canceling the Special Election - Moved, as a special election is no longer required, to rescind the May 19, 2025 vote of the Select Board calling for a special election to be held on June 26, 2025for the purpose of placing before the voters a debt exclusion ballot question, and for which the text of the ballot question was duly forwarded to the Town Clerk in accordance with law; and further, to forthwith forward a copy of this vote to the Town Clerk for her records. Ms. Bodnar made a motion to approve. Mr. Hutchinson seconded. With no further discussion, the motion was approved unanimously with a roll call vote: Bodnar: Aye; Glass: Aye; Hutchinson: Aye.
The minutes give the motion text (“Moved, as a special election is no longer required, to rescind the May 19, 2025 vote…”) and then say “Ms. Bodnar made a motion to approve.”
From the minutes
“Canceling the Special Election - Moved, as a special election is no longer required, to rescind the May 19, 2025 vote of the Select Board calling for a special election to be held on June 26, 2025for the purpose of placing before the voters a debt exclusion ballot question, and for which the text of the ballot question was duly forwarded to the Town Clerk in accordance with law; and further, to forthwith forward a copy of this vote to the Town Clerk for her records. Ms. Bodnar made a motion to approve. Mr. Hutchinson seconded. With no further discussion, the motion was approved unanimously with a roll call vote: Bodnar: Aye; Glass: Aye; Hutchinson: Aye..” (Motion: Bodnar, second: Hutchinson)
May 12Open the warrant for the Special Town Meeting and…Motion: The board voted to open the warrant for the Special Town…Passed · see note
May 12, 2025: Open the warrant for the Special Town Meeting and established a May 27th deadline for citizens' petitions
The board voted to open the warrant for the Special Town Meeting and established a May 27th deadline for citizens' petitions.
The minutes record the result but no count or names. The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“The board voted to open the warrant for the Special Town Meeting and established a May 27th deadline for citizens' petitions..”
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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