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Milton Select Board
How the Milton Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 5 Select Board members elected townwide. The Board of Selectmen had three members: Chairman David T. Burnes, Kathleen M. Conlon and Richard G. Wells, Jr. Kathleen Conlon served as Acting Chair when the Chairman was away. MassVoter has loaded this board’s minutes from January 9, 2018 on. Covers 10 meetings, January 9 to April 23, 2018.
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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From the agendas Milton posts on its official site. Agendas can change; the posted agenda is the official one.
Members
Kathleen M. ConlonMember · Elected townwide · at 10 of 10 meetingsRichard G. Wells, Jr.Member · Elected townwide · at 10 of 10 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 minutes (called the Board of Selectmen until 2019) from January 9, 2018 through August 25, 2026, from the town’s online Agenda Center, which holds minutes back to 2016 (MassVoter has loaded 2018 on). Joint meetings with other boards are included, but only the Select Board’s own votes. Not here: executive-session minutes; the separate minutes of the Select Board sitting as Trustees of the Governor Stoughton Fund; the March 11, 2020 minutes (the town posted the trustees’ minutes in their place); minutes the town has not posted for 121 other meeting dates listed in the Agenda Center (most of them from 2018 to 2022, many of them joint sessions, workshops or retreats); and every meeting after August 25, 2026. The minutes are typed (PDFs, and 27 Word files, most from 2018 and 2019). Milton’s minutes give the mover and seconder for each motion. Until 2020 they usually say the Board “voted unanimously” or give a count such as “voted 3-2, with Richard G. Wells, Jr. and Anthony J. Farrington in opposition”; from 2020 on most votes are roll calls listing each member’s vote by name (“Collins YES”, “DRISCOLL: NO”). When the minutes say the vote was unanimous or the count matches the members present, we show every member present as voting yes, and when the minutes name the members who voted no or abstained, everyone else present as voting yes. Where the minutes give only a split count without names, a roll call leaves out a member who was there or names one the attendance list does not show, or the count does not match the members present, we show the count only and add a note. Votes with no count written down, and officer elections recorded as a choice of names, are shown with the result only. Members who stepped aside (recused), had not yet arrived or had left are left out of that vote. 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 28Approve the sale of a $7,244,979 2.25 percent General…Motion: To approve the sale of a $7,244,979 2.25 percent General Obligation…Passed Unanimous, 2 present · see note
February 28, 2018: Approve the sale of a $7,244,979 2.25 percent General Obligation Bond Anticipation Note (the "Note") of the Town dated March 7, 2018, and payable August 30, 2018, to Eastern Bank…
To approve the sale of a $7,244,979 2.25 percent General Obligation Bond Anticipation Note (the "Note") of the Town dated March 7, 2018, and payable August 30, 2018, to Eastern Bank at par and accrued interest, if any, plus a premium of $31,891.59, That in connection with the marketing and sale of the Note, the preparation and distribution of a Notice of Sale and Preliminary Official Statement dated February 14, 2018, and a final Official Statement dated February 21, 2018, each in such form as may be approved by the Town Treasurer, be and hereby are ratified, confirmed, approved and adopted, That the Town Treasurer and the Board of Selectmen be, and hereby are, authorized to execute and deliver significant events disclosure undertaking in compliance with SEC Rule 15c2-12 in such form as may be approved by bond counsel to the Town, which undertaking shall be incorporated by reference in the Note for the benefit of the holders of the Note from time to time, That we authorize and direct the Treasurer to establish post issuance federal tax compliance procedures in such form as the Treasurer and bond counsel deem sufficient, or if such procedures are currently in place, to review and update said procedures, in order to monitor and maintain the tax-exempt status of the Note, And that each member of the Board of Selectmen, the Town Clerk and the Town Treasurer be and hereby are, authorized to take any and all such actions, and execute and deliver such certificates, receipts or other
Kathleen M. Conlon stepped aside (recused) and did not take part in this vote.
From the minutes
“Richard G. Wells, Jr. moved, David T. Burnes seconded, and the Board voted 2-0 to approve the sale of a $7,244,979 2.25 percent General Obligation Bond Anticipation Note (the "Note") of the Town dated March 7, 2018, and payable August 30, 2018, to Eastern Bank at par and accrued interest, if any, plus a premium of $31,891.59, That in connection with the marketing and sale of the Note, the preparation and distribution of a Notice of Sale and Preliminary Official Statement dated February 14, 2018, and a final Official Statement dated February 21, 2018, each in such form as may be approved by the Town Treasurer, be and hereby are ratified, confirmed, approved and adopted, That the Town Treasurer and the Board of Selectmen be, and hereby are, authorized to execute and deliver significant events disclosure undertaking in compliance with SEC Rule 15c2-12 in such form as may be approved by bond counsel to the Town, which undertaking shall be incorporated by reference in the Note for the benefit of the holders of the Note from time to time, That we authorize and direct the Treasurer to establish post issuance federal tax compliance procedures in such form as the Treasurer and bond counsel deem sufficient, or if such procedures are currently in place, to review and update said procedures, in order to monitor and maintain the tax-exempt status of the Note, And that each member of the Board of Selectmen, the Town Clerk and the Town Treasurer be and hereby are, authorized to take any and all such actions, and execute and deliver such certificates, receipts or other documents as may be determined by them, or any of them, to be necessary or convenient to carry into effect the provisions of the foregoing votes..” (Motion: Wells, second: Burnes)
Feb 28Approve the FY2019 Capital Needs Recommendation of the Capital…Motion: To approve the FY2019 Capital Needs Recommendation of the Capital Improvement…Passed Unanimous, 2 present · see note
February 28, 2018: Approve the FY2019 Capital Needs Recommendation of the Capital Improvement Planning Committee for Enterprise Funds, as detailed in its February 21, 2018 memo
To approve the FY2019 Capital Needs Recommendation of the Capital Improvement Planning Committee for Enterprise Funds, as detailed in its February 21, 2018 memo.
Kathleen M. Conlon stepped aside (recused) and did not take part in this vote.
From the minutes
“Richard G. Wells, Jr. moved, David T. Burnes seconded, and the Board voted 2-0 to approve the FY2019 Capital Needs Recommendation of the Capital Improvement Planning Committee for Enterprise Funds, as detailed in its February 21, 2018 memo..” (Motion: Wells, second: Burnes)
Jan 29That the maximum useful life of the departmental equipment…Motion: that the maximum useful life of the departmental equipment listed below…Passed Unanimous, 2 present · see note
January 29, 2018: That the maximum useful life of the departmental equipment listed below to be financed with the proceeds of the $978,601 portion of the borrowing authorized by the vote of the…
That the maximum useful life of the departmental equipment listed below to be financed with the proceeds of the $978,601 portion of the borrowing authorized by the vote of the Town passed under Article 5 at the May 1, 2017 Annual Town Meeting is hereby determined pursuant to G.L. c.44, §7(9) to be as follows: Dept.
Kathleen M. Conlon stepped aside (recused) and did not take part in this vote.
From the minutes
“Richard G. Wells, Jr. moved, David T. Burnes seconded, and the Board voted 2-0 that the maximum useful life of the departmental equipment listed below to be financed with the proceeds of the $978,601 portion of the borrowing authorized by the vote of the Town passed under Article 5 at the May 1, 2017 Annual Town Meeting is hereby determined pursuant to G.L. c.44, §7(9) to be as follows: Dept..” (Motion: Wells, second: Burnes)
From the Milton 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: the members’ campaign websites (Winston Daley, Meghan Haggerty), The Milton Scene (Peter Obersheimer) and the Milton Times (Megan Nolan, photo by Jose Zamora; John Driscoll).
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