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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. On April 1, 2025 the board chose Gus Murby as Chair, Osler Peterson as Clerk and Eileen Murphy as third member (each 3-0). No minutes from May 14 to October 30, 2025 are online. Covers 11 meetings, April 1 to March 3, 2026.

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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 budget
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Members

Eileen MurphyMember · Elected townwide · at 11 of 11 meetingsOsler PetersonClerk · Elected townwide · at 11 of 11 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.

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 · Regular meeting12 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentTuesday, February 17, 2026 · Regular meeting9 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentTuesday, February 3, 2026 · Regular meeting10 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentTuesday, January 20, 2026 · Regular meeting7 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentMonday, December 22, 2025 · Regular meeting2 recorded votes, 1 with disagreementAll 3 members present

Votes where members disagreed

Most board votes are unanimous. These are the ones where at least one member voted no or abstained, newest first.

Apr 15Grant permission to post Medfield Climate Week signs at…Motion: MOTION: To grant permission to post Medfield Climate Week signs at…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note

April 15, 2025: Grant permission to post Medfield Climate Week signs at the usual locations from April 26 through May 10; the request for Select Board recognition via Town website posting and encouragement…

ApprovePassed · Unanimous, 3 present

MOTION: To grant permission to post Medfield Climate Week signs at the usual locations from April 26 through May 10; the request for Select Board recognition via Town website posting and encouragement was not approved. SECONDED: Ms. Murphy VOTE: G. Murby, aye; E. Murphy, aye; O. Peterson, aye MOTION CARRIES: 3-0

The motion grants permission for the signs; it also records that "the request for Select Board recognition via Town website posting and encouragement was not approved." The vote was 3-0.

From the minutes

“MOTION: To grant permission to post Medfield Climate Week signs at the usual locations from April 26 through May 10; the request for Select Board recognition via Town website posting and encouragement was not approved. SECONDED: Ms. Murphy VOTE: G. Murby, aye; E. Murphy, aye; O. Peterson, aye MOTION CARRIES: 3-0.” (second: Murphy)

Read it in the official minutes, page 14 (PDF)

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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