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Millis Select Board
How the Millis Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 3 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms, one seat each year. Same three members after the May 2018 election. Catherine MacInnes chaired. No May 2018 minutes are online, so the reorganization vote, vice chair and clerk are not known. Covers 24 meetings, June 4 to May 2, 2019.
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
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Members
Loring BarnesMember · Elected townwide · at 17 of 24 meetingsJames McCaffreyMember · Elected townwide · at 24 of 24 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: Millis Select Board minutes (called the Board of Selectmen until 2019) from January 8, 2018 through June 15, 2026, from the Minutes folder on the town website. The town has not posted minutes for any meeting after June 15, 2026, or for six meetings in the fall of 2025 (September 8, 18 and 29, October 6, November 10 and 24) and four earlier in 2026 (January 26, April 27, May 18 and June 1). The town posts agendas online only from 2023, so earlier gaps can’t be checked. We list every meeting without minutes, and MassVoter is asking the town for them. The minutes are typed. Most votes are recorded as unanimous or as a roll call by name, so we show each member’s vote. When the minutes say a member called the meeting to order, that member is counted present even if the list of people present names only the others. When the minutes give only a count that doesn’t match the members present, or no result, we show that without guessing; about 30 motions with no recorded result are left out. At joint meetings, only the Select Board members’ votes are shown. 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.
Dec 17Acting as Water/Sewer Commissioners, to deny the request for…Motion: , acting as Water/Sewer Commissioners, to deny the request for abatementPassed 2–1 · No: Barnes
December 17, 2018: Acting as Water/Sewer Commissioners, to deny the request for abatement
, acting as Water/Sewer Commissioners, to deny the request for abatement
Yes: MacInnes, McCaffreyNo: BarnesThe minutes give the count (2-1) and name Loring Barnes; the other members present are shown as yes.
From the minutes
“Sel. McCaffrey made a motion, acting as Water/Sewer Commissioners, to deny the request for abatement. The motion was seconded by Sel. MacInnes. Sel. Barnes opposed. The motion passed 2- 1..” (Motion: McCaffrey, second: MacInnes)
Sep 24Section 3. Special Permit Conditions on Marijuana Establishment, subsection…Motion: that section 3. Special Permit Conditions on Marijuana Establishment, subsection e.…Passed 2–1 · see note
September 24, 2018: Section 3. Special Permit Conditions on Marijuana Establishment, subsection e. should be eliminated from the zoning article put forth by the Planning Board
That section 3. Special Permit Conditions on Marijuana Establishment, subsection e. should be eliminated from the zoning article put forth by the Planning Board
The minutes give only the count (2-1), not how each member voted.
From the minutes
“Sel. MacInnes made a motion that section 3. Special Permit Conditions on Marijuana Establishment, subsection e. should be eliminated from the zoning article put forth by the Planning Board. The motion was seconded by Sel. Barnes the motion passed 2-1..” (Motion: MacInnes, second: Barnes)
From the Millis Select Board’s official minutes, posted in the Minutes folder on the town website. We check every vote against the Select Board members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Photos: Craig Schultze, Ellen Rosenfeld (2022) and Jim McKay (2026) from Millis Community Media candidate profile videos.
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