How the Mansfield Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 5 members elected townwide. We have loaded minutes from January 2023 on; the town’s archive goes back further. Covers 10 meetings, January 18 to May 3, 2023.
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.
Under the state Open Meeting Law, boards post notice at least 48 hours ahead, not counting weekends and legal holidays.
What Town Meeting decided
In Mansfield, Town Meeting — not the Select Board — votes the town budget, bylaws and zoning. Here is what it did with each article, in the Town Clerk’s own words. Any registered voter can take part, and most votes are by voice or show of hands, so there is no list of who voted which way.
Special Town Meeting · December 9, 2025 29 votes: 27 passed, 2 no action
Art. 11Citizen petition: declare Mansfield a "Safe Community" that does not use town funds or resources to enforce federal immigration laws, to the extent allowed by lawFailed“MOTION FAILED TO ACHIEVE A MAJORITY”
Art. 5 · motion 1Appropriate $1,264,375.93 (free cash and unspent prior funds) for town and school capital projects and vehiclesPassed“MOTION PASSED BY A MAJORITY SHOW OF HANDS”
Art. 7 · motion 1Appropriate $773,151.61 from free cash for school capital items (smart boards, chiller engineering, textbooks, technology)Passed“MOTION PASSED BY A MAJORITY SHOW OF HANDS”
Art. 14Amend Zoning By-law §230-5.12 and map: Mansfield Station Revitalization Overlay District (extend Subdistrict A, add Subdistrict C)Passed“MOTION PASSED BY A MAJORITY SHOW OF HANDS”
Art. 24Authorize transfer of Erick Road Rear land (Map 041 Lot 099) to the Mansfield Housing Corporation for low/moderate income housingPassed“MOTION PASSED BY A MAJORITY 2/3 SHOW OF HANDS”
Not here yet: the May 5, 2026 Annual Town Meeting (Mansfield prints Town Meeting results in its Annual Town Report, and the 2026 report is not out yet). The Town Clerk's record of the January 9, 2025 Special Town Meeting has no result for Article 18.
Titles are short descriptions of each article from the official record; the quoted words are the Town Clerk’s. A vote at Town Meeting is not the final word on everything: some articles also need a ballot vote (such as a tax override) or the Attorney General’s approval (bylaws).
"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
Not here yet: we have loaded the Select Board’s minutes from January 2023 on; earlier years are in the town’s archive. The minutes are scanned documents; we read them with text recognition. The minutes give each vote as a count with the mover and seconder (for example “Passes 4:1”) and usually name members who abstain, but not who voted no; split votes without names show only the count. Where a count does not match the members listed as present, the vote is noted. We will ask the town to confirm any noted vote.
Most board votes are unanimous. These are the ones where at least one member voted no or abstained, newest first.
Apr 19Approve the 2023 Commercial Parking Lot License Renewal for…Motion: to approve the 2023 Commercial Parking Lot License Renewal for Mansfield…Passed 5–0 · see note
April 19, 2023: Approve the 2023 Commercial Parking Lot License Renewal for Mansfield Parking LLC, located at | 75 Chauncy Street
ApprovePassed · 5–0
To approve the 2023 Commercial Parking Lot License Renewal for Mansfield Parking LLC, located at | 75 Chauncy Street
The minutes record 5–0–8 with 5 members listed as present, so individual votes are not shown.
From the minutes
“Motion: To approve the 2023 Commercial Parking Lot License Renewal for Mansfield Parking LLC, located at | 75 Chauncy Street. (Rhein/Aptowitz) Passes 5:0 - 8.” (Motion: Rhein, second: Aptowitz)
Apr 19Approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23041PS in the amount…Motion: to approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23041PS in the amount of…Passed 4–0 · Abstained: Trowbridge
April 19, 2023: Approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23041PS in the amount of $1,867,518.50
ApprovePassed · 4–0
To approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23041PS in the amount of $1,867,518.50
“Motion: To approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23041PS in the amount of $1,867,518.50. (Rhein/Aptowitz) Passes 4:0:1 (Trowbridge Abstained.” (Motion: Rhein, second: Aptowitz)
Apr 5Approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23039PS in the amount…Motion: to approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23039PS in the amount of…Passed 3–0 · Abstained: Trowbridge
April 5, 2023: Approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23039PS in the amount of $1,865,505.24. J
ApprovePassed · 3–0
To approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23039PS in the amount of $1,865,505.24. J
“Motion: To approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23039PS in the amount of $1,865,505.24. J (Rhein/Aptowitz) Passes 3:0:1 (Trowbridge Abstained.” (Motion: Rhein, second: Aptowitz)
Mar 15Approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23037PS in the amount…Motion: to approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23037PS in the amount of…Passed 4–0 · Abstained: Trowbridge
March 15, 2023: Approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23037PS in the amount of $1,826,767.09
ApprovePassed · 4–0
To approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23037PS in the amount of $1,826,767.09
“Motion: To approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23037PS in the amount of $1,826,767.09. (Rhein/Bren) Passes 4:0:1 Trowbridge Abstain.” (Motion: Rhein, second: Bren)
Mar 1Approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23035PS in the amount…Motion: to approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23035PS in the amount of…Passed 4–0 · Abstained: Trowbridge
March 1, 2023: Approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23035PS in the amount of $1,813,013.91
ApprovePassed · 4–0
To approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23035PS in the amount of $1,813,013.91
“Motion: To approve School Payroll/School Medicaid Payroll 23035PS in the amount of $1,813,013.91. (Rhein/Aptowiz) Passes 4:0:1 (Trowbridge Abstain.” (Motion: Rhein, second: Aptowitz)
From the Mansfield Select Board’s official minutes, posted in the town’s Agenda Center. We check every count against the members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades officials; votes and attendance are shown exactly as the minutes record them. Member photos: Mark Corsillo from his campaign website; Kostas Loukos from The Sun Chronicle; Brendan Roche from Run for Something; Walter Wilk from The Sun Chronicle (March 2024); Michael Feck cropped from a captioned submitted photo in The Sun Chronicle (September 2026).