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Middleborough Select Board

How the Middleborough Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 5 Select Board members elected townwide. Same five members. On April 5, 2021 the board re-elected Leilani Dalpe as Chairman and elected Mark Germain as Vice Chairman. Covers 40 meetings, April 5 to March 28, 2022.

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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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What Town Meeting decided

In Middleborough, 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 · October 6, 2025 14 votes: 13 passed, 1 indefinitely postponed

Source: Town Clerk's record in the 2025 Annual Town Report.

Special Town Meeting · April 28, 2025 6 votes: 5 passed, 1 no action

Source: Town Clerk's record in the 2025 Annual Town Report.

Annual Town Meeting · April 28, 2025 31 votes: 30 passed, 1 no action

Source: Town Clerk's record in the 2025 Annual Town Report.

Special Town Meeting · October 7, 2024 22 votes: 20 passed, 1 failed, 1 no action

Source: Town Clerk's record in the 2024 Annual Town Report (scanned pages).

Special Town Meeting · April 22, 2024 4 votes: 4 passed
  • Art. 1 Pay a prior-year Law Department bill: $13,494.89 from free cash Passed “Voted unanimously”
  • Art. 2 Rescind $3,383,022 of unneeded borrowing authority (school remodel, JA-MAR and Picone Farm land, John Glass Square water main) Passed “Voted unanimously”
  • Art. 3 Borrow $1,000,000 for a new fire pumper truck; rescind the 2023 lease-purchase vote Passed “Voted unanimously”
  • Art. 4 Transfer $25,000 from wastewater retained earnings to update the Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan Passed “Voted unanimously”

Source: Town Clerk's record in the 2024 Annual Town Report (scanned pages).

Annual Town Meeting · April 22, 2024 31 votes: 29 passed, 1 failed, 1 indefinitely postponed

Source: Town Clerk's record in the 2024 Annual Town Report (scanned pages).

Not here yet: the Special and Annual Town Meetings of June 1, 2026 and the Special Town Meeting of June 16, 2026. The town posts only warrants for these; results will come in the 2026 Annual Town Report. The Town Meeting Warrants & Minutes page stops at 2021, so 2024-2025 results come from the 2024 and 2025 Annual Town Reports.

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).

Members

Arthur BattistiniMember · Elected townwide · at 36 of 39 meetingsNathan DemersMember · Elected townwide · at 39 of 39 meetingsNeil RosenthalMember · Elected townwide · at 37 of 39 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: Select Board (until 2022, Board of Selectmen) minutes from January 8, 2018 through September 21, 2026, as posted in the town’s Agenda Center. Not here yet: minutes from 2015 and 2017 (posted, not loaded), minutes after September 21, 2026, and meetings the town lists without minutes. Some posted files are incomplete: the July 23, October 15 and October 22, 2018 files are a single page with no attendance list, and the March 14, 2022 file has no first page; votes in those files show the count or result only. Most minutes from 2018 to 2026 are scans, which we read with text recognition (OCR) and checked against the page images where they were unclear. Middleborough’s minutes usually say “the Board voted unanimously” (shown as every member present voting yes), give a roll call (“polled vote”, most votes from 2020 to 2021 and since late 2025), or give a count with the names of those voting no or abstaining. Votes recorded only as “the Board voted to …” or “Motion carries” show the result only and are not treated as unanimous; counts without names (common in 2018–2019) show the count only. Where the names or count do not match the members the minutes show present, or a member who had left or stepped off the Board is named in the vote, we show the count only and add a note. The Select Board also sits as the Board of Health, the Water and Sewer Commissioners and the Rent Control Board; those votes are included. Votes by other boards at joint meetings are not. We will ask the town to confirm any noted vote.

Monday, March 28, 2022 · Regular meeting10 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 5 members presentMonday, March 21, 2022 · Regular meeting15 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 5 members presentMonday, March 14, 2022 · Regular meeting0 recorded votes, 13 with disagreementAll 5 members presentMonday, March 7, 2022 · Regular meeting6 recorded votes, 2 with disagreementAbsent: Leilani DalpeMonday, February 28, 2022 · Regular meeting11 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 5 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.

Mar 14Recommend the FY '23 Town Manager budgets as follows:…Motion: to recommend the FY '23 Town Manager budgets as follows: Conservation…Passed · see note

March 14, 2022: Recommend the FY '23 Town Manager budgets as follows: Conservation Commission - $193,948; DPW – Administration - $31,500; DPW – Tree Warden - $31,800; DPW – Highway - $1,988,698; Sanitation…

ApprovePassed · No count or names in the minutes

To recommend the FY '23 Town Manager budgets as follows: Conservation Commission - $193,948; DPW – Administration - $31,500; DPW – Tree Warden - $31,800; DPW – Highway - $1,988,698; Sanitation - $1,632,227; Wastewater - $3,534,039, Water - $5,074,747; Police - $5,549,149 and Fire - $4,137,987

These minutes (as posted) have no attendance list, so individual votes are not shown.

From the minutes

“Upon motion made by Selectmen Germain and seconded by Selectmen Battistini, the Board voted unanimously to recommend the FY '23 Town Manager budgets as follows: Conservation Commission - $193,948; DPW – Administration - $31,500; DPW – Tree Warden - $31,800; DPW – Highway - $1,988,698; Sanitation - $1,632,227; Wastewater - $3,534,039, Water - $5,074,747; Police - $5,549,149 and Fire - $4,137,987..”

Read it in the official minutes, page 2 (PDF)

Mar 14Authorize the Chairman or her designee to sign the…Motion: to authorize the Chairman or her designee to sign the warrants…Passed · see note

March 14, 2022: Authorize the Chairman or her designee to sign the warrants for week ending 3/19/2022

ApprovePassed · No count or names in the minutes

To authorize the Chairman or her designee to sign the warrants for week ending 3/19/2022

These minutes (as posted) have no attendance list, so individual votes are not shown.

From the minutes

“Upon motion made by Selectmen Demers and seconded by Selectmen Germain, the Board voted unanimously to authorize the Chairman or her designee to sign the warrants for week ending 3/19/2022..”

Read it in the official minutes, page 2 (PDF)

Mar 14Reduce the quorum for the April 25, 2022 Special…Motion: to reduce the quorum for the April 25, 2022 Special Town…Passed · see note

March 14, 2022: Reduce the quorum for the April 25, 2022 Special Town Meeting and Annual Town Meeting to 100 attendees to start the meeting

ApprovePassed · No count or names in the minutes

To reduce the quorum for the April 25, 2022 Special Town Meeting and Annual Town Meeting to 100 attendees to start the meeting

These minutes (as posted) have no attendance list, so individual votes are not shown.

From the minutes

“Upon motion made by Selectmen Demers and seconded by Selectmen Battistini, the Board voted unanimously to reduce the quorum for the April 25, 2022 Special Town Meeting and Annual Town Meeting to 100 attendees to start the meeting..”

Read it in the official minutes, page 3 (PDF)

Mar 14Approve a One Day All Alcohol for William Fuller,…Motion: to approve a One Day All Alcohol for William Fuller, The…Passed · see note

March 14, 2022: Approve a One Day All Alcohol for William Fuller, The Bartending Service of New England for April 2, 2022 from 4 PM to 7 PM for the Sip & Stroll…

ApprovePassed · No count or names in the minutes

To approve a One Day All Alcohol for William Fuller, The Bartending Service of New England for April 2, 2022 from 4 PM to 7 PM for the Sip & Stroll on the Town Hall Lawn

These minutes (as posted) have no attendance list, so individual votes are not shown.

From the minutes

“Upon motion made by Selectmen Demers and seconded by Selectmen Battistini, the Board voted unanimously to approve a One Day All Alcohol for William Fuller, The Bartending Service of New England for April 2, 2022 from 4 PM to 7 PM for the Sip & Stroll on the Town Hall Lawn..”

Read it in the official minutes, page 3 (PDF)

Mar 14Approve two (2) One Day Beer & Wine Licenses,…Motion: to approve two (2) One Day Beer & Wine Licenses, for…Passed · see note

March 14, 2022: Approve two (2) One Day Beer & Wine Licenses, for William Fuller, The Bartending Service of New England for April 9, 2022 and April 20, 2002 from 11 AM to…

ApprovePassed · No count or names in the minutes

To approve two (2) One Day Beer & Wine Licenses, for William Fuller, The Bartending Service of New England for April 9, 2022 and April 20, 2002 from 11 AM to 4 PM for the Herring Run Festival at Oliver Mill Park

These minutes (as posted) have no attendance list, so individual votes are not shown.

From the minutes

“Upon motion made by Selectmen Battistini and seconded by Selectmen Demers, the Board voted unanimously to approve two (2) One Day Beer & Wine Licenses, for William Fuller, The Bartending Service of New England for April 9, 2022 and April 20, 2002 from 11 AM to 4 PM for the Herring Run Festival at Oliver Mill Park..”

Read it in the official minutes, page 3 (PDF)

Mar 14Approve and sign a Betterment Agreement for Mary J.…Motion: to approve and sign a Betterment Agreement for Mary J. Maynard,…Passed · see note

March 14, 2022: Approve and sign a Betterment Agreement for Mary J. Maynard, 88 Plympton Street in the amount of $21,230

ApprovePassed · No count or names in the minutes

To approve and sign a Betterment Agreement for Mary J. Maynard, 88 Plympton Street in the amount of $21,230

These minutes (as posted) have no attendance list, so individual votes are not shown.

From the minutes

“Upon motion made by Selectmen Battistini and seconded by Selectmen Rosenthal, the Board voted unanimously to approve and sign a Betterment Agreement for Mary J. Maynard, 88 Plympton Street in the amount of $21,230..”

Read it in the official minutes, page 3 (PDF)

Mar 14Enter into a Grant Agreement with Plymouth County to…Motion: to enter into a Grant Agreement with Plymouth County to Utilize…Passed · see note

March 14, 2022: Enter into a Grant Agreement with Plymouth County to Utilize American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for the Ocean Spray Generator Replacement (Wastewater) in the amount of $100,000

ApprovePassed · No count or names in the minutes

To enter into a Grant Agreement with Plymouth County to Utilize American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for the Ocean Spray Generator Replacement (Wastewater) in the amount of $100,000

These minutes (as posted) have no attendance list, so individual votes are not shown.

From the minutes

“Upon motion made by Selectmen Germain and seconded by Selectmen Battistini, the Board voted unanimously to enter into a Grant Agreement with Plymouth County to Utilize American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for the Ocean Spray Generator Replacement (Wastewater) in the amount of $100,000..”

Read it in the official minutes, page 4 (PDF)

Mar 14Enter into a Grant Agreement with Plymouth County to…Motion: to enter into a Grant Agreement with Plymouth County to Utilize…Passed · see note

March 14, 2022: Enter into a Grant Agreement with Plymouth County to Utilize American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for the SCADA System Upgrade Project (Wastewater) in the amount of $90,000

ApprovePassed · No count or names in the minutes

To enter into a Grant Agreement with Plymouth County to Utilize American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for the SCADA System Upgrade Project (Wastewater) in the amount of $90,000

These minutes (as posted) have no attendance list, so individual votes are not shown.

From the minutes

“Upon motion made by Selectmen Germain and seconded by Selectmen Battistini, the Board voted unanimously to enter into a Grant Agreement with Plymouth County to Utilize American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for the SCADA System Upgrade Project (Wastewater) in the amount of $90,000..”

Read it in the official minutes, page 4 (PDF)

Mar 14Deny the request to sell Map 038, Lot 4355Motion: to deny the request to sell Map 038, Lot 4355Passed · see note

March 14, 2022: Deny the request to sell Map 038, Lot 4355

DenyPassed · No count or names in the minutes

To deny the request to sell Map 038, Lot 4355

These minutes (as posted) have no attendance list, so individual votes are not shown.

From the minutes

“Upon motion made by Selectmen Germain and seconded by Selectmen Rosenthal, the Board voted unanimously to deny the request to sell Map 038, Lot 4355..”

Read it in the official minutes, page 4 (PDF)

Mar 14Approve the Assawompsett Pond Complex Management Team's "Management and…Motion: to approve the Assawompsett Pond Complex Management Team's "Management and Climate…Passed · see note

March 14, 2022: Approve the Assawompsett Pond Complex Management Team's "Management and Climate Priorities Action Plan" as presented

ApprovePassed · No count or names in the minutes

To approve the Assawompsett Pond Complex Management Team's "Management and Climate Priorities Action Plan" as presented

These minutes (as posted) have no attendance list, so individual votes are not shown.

From the minutes

“Upon motion made by Selectmen Rosenthal and seconded by Selectmen Demers, the Board voted unanimously to approve the Assawompsett Pond Complex Management Team's "Management and Climate Priorities Action Plan" as presented..”

Read it in the official minutes, page 5 (PDF)

From the Middleborough 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 of current members: Nemasket Week candidate profiles (Teresa Farley 2024; Brian Giovanoni and William Pike 2025; Thomas White and Tracie Craig-McGee 2026). Former members show initials.

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