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Medfield Select Board
How the Medfield Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 3 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms. The Board of Selectmen had three members: Chairman Osler Peterson, Michael Marcucci and Gus Murby. MassVoter loaded this board’s minutes from January 2, 2018 on; the start date is a placeholder, and the January–March 2018 minutes do not name a Clerk. Covers 8 meetings, January 2 to March 20, 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 budgetYour Medfield ballot: 13 quizzes, about a minute each.
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Members
Michael MarcucciMember · Elected townwide · at 8 of 8 meetings
Gus MurbyMember · Elected townwide · at 8 of 8 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: 215 Medfield Board of Selectmen and Select Board meetings with minutes, from January 2, 2018 through June 30, 2026, including three joint meetings (only this board’s votes are shown), three special meetings and one work session. These come from the town’s Agenda Center, which also holds some older minutes from 2014 to 2017 that MassVoter has not loaded. Not here: meetings whose minutes were never posted, including most of June to November 2023, mid-September 2024 to early January 2025, mid-May to the end of October 2025, most of November and December 2025, and every meeting after June 30, 2026. In all, more than 80 Select Board meetings from 2018 to September 2026 have an agenda in the Agenda Center but no minutes. MassVoter is asking the town for these minutes. Medfield’s minutes usually name the mover and seconder and say the vote was unanimous, give a count such as “Vote: 3-0-0”, or (in 2020 and 2021) record a roll call naming each member. When the count or the word “unanimous” matches the members present, each member is shown voting as recorded. Some minutes give a count that does not match the members present, name only two members in a roll call, or give a split count without saying who voted which way; those 22 votes show the count only, with a note. 34 votes record no count (for example “it was so voted”) or are a choice between candidates, and show the result only. Seven minutes files are scans and were read by text recognition (May 22, May 29, June 5, October 2, October 16 and October 30, 2018; March 16, 2021). 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.
Feb 6Relieve the MSHMPC from responsibility of Lot 3 and…Motion: Vote: Selectmen Marcucci made a motion to relieve the MSHMPC from…Passed Unanimous, 2 present · see note
February 6, 2018: Relieve the MSHMPC from responsibility of Lot 3 and Hinkley Property
Vote: Selectmen Marcucci made a motion to relieve the MSHMPC from responsibility of Lot 3 and Hinkley Property, seconded by Selectmen Murby. Vote was 2-0.
Osler Peterson recused himself from this item ("Selectmen Peterson recused himself from the discussion"); the other two members voted 2-0.
From the minutes
“Vote: Selectmen Marcucci made a motion to relieve the MSHMPC from responsibility of Lot 3 and Hinkley Property, seconded by Selectmen Murby. Vote was 2-0..” (Motion: Marcucci, second: Murby)
Jan 2Approve the Access Agreement with Verizon as presented by…Motion: Vote: Selectmen Murby made a motion to approve the Access Agreement…Passed Unanimous, 2 present · see note
January 2, 2018: Approve the Access Agreement with Verizon as presented by Town Counsel
Vote: Selectmen Murby made a motion to approve the Access Agreement with Verizon as presented by Town Counsel, seconded by Selectmen Peterson and the vote was unanimous, 2-0.
Michael Marcucci recused himself from this item ("Selectmen Marcucci informed the Board he would recuse himself from the Board of Selectmen for this discussion"); the other two members voted 2-0.
From the minutes
“Vote: Selectmen Murby made a motion to approve the Access Agreement with Verizon as presented by Town Counsel, seconded by Selectmen Peterson and the vote was unanimous, 2-0..” (Motion: Murby, second: Peterson)
From the Medfield Select Board’s official minutes, posted in the town’s Agenda Center. We check every vote against the Select Board members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Photos: Osler Peterson’s law-practice profile (Justia), Medfield Patch (Eileen Murphy, photo by Colleen Sullivan, 2022) and Medfield TV (Gus Murby, “Gus Murby - 2026 Candidate Message”).
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