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Norfolk Select Board
How the Norfolk Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 3 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms. After the May 5, 2026 town election (Anita Mecklenburg re-elected), the board put off its reorganization on May 13 because Ms. Mecklenburg was away; the town website lists Kevin Roche as Chair, Taiese Hickman as Vice Chair and Ms. Mecklenburg as Clerk. The minutes of the reorganization meeting are not online (the May 18, 2026 link opens the May 28 minutes). Minutes after July 13, 2026 are not posted yet. The end date (May 2027) is a placeholder. Covers 6 meetings so far, May 6 to July 13, 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 budgetVote Transparency Score
Norfolk Select Board: 6 out of 10 · Partly open
How easy Norfolk makes it to see, online, how each member votes. It scores the town’s records, not any official. Checked October 6, 2026.
- Minutes postedMinutes are posted for most of the past year’s meetings, but not all.Part points: 1/2
- Each vote namedThe minutes list how each member voted on every split vote.Full points: 3/3
- Posted quicklyMinutes are posted for meetings more than three months old, but some newer ones are missing.Part points: 1/2
- Past years onlineFewer than five years of minutes are online (2022 on).No points: 0/1
- Readable textAbout half of the past year’s minutes are scanned images without searchable text.No points: 0/1
- Member photosThe town’s website shows a photo of each member.Full points: 1/1
How the town can raise its score
- Minutes posted (+1): Post approved minutes for every meeting on the town website. Don’t require a sign-in to view them.
- Posted quickly (+1): Post minutes within 30 days. If approval takes longer, post a draft marked “Draft – not yet approved” and replace it later.
- Past years online (+1): Keep at least five years of minutes online. When the website changes, move the old files instead of deleting them.
- Readable text (+1): Save minutes straight from Word or Google Docs as a PDF instead of printing and scanning them. If a scan is needed, turn on the scanner’s “searchable PDF” or text-recognition setting.
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Board years
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Members
ChairKevin RocheChair · Select Board member (townwide) · at 6 of 6 meetings
Vice-ChairTaiese HickmanVice Chair · Select Board member (townwide) · at 5 of 6 meetings
Anita MecklenburgClerk · Select Board member (townwide) · at 5 of 6 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.
Attendance
16 full-board meetings so far this year, through July 13. Ties share a rank.
1Kevin Roche16 of 16 meetings Every meeting100%2Anita Mecklenburg15 of 16 meetings94%3Taiese Hickman14 of 16 meetings88%25 full-board meetings in 2025. Ties share a rank.
1Anita Mecklenburg25 of 25 meetings Every meeting100%1Kevin Roche25 of 25 meetings Every meeting100%1Jim Lehan8 of 8 meetings · served until Apr Every meeting100%4Taiese Hickman16 of 17 meetings · served from May94%27 full-board meetings in 2024. Ties share a rank.
1Jim Lehan27 of 27 meetings Every meeting100%1Kevin Roche16 of 16 meetings · served from May Every meeting100%1Kevin Kalkut11 of 11 meetings · served until May Every meeting100%4Anita Mecklenburg25 of 27 meetings93%21 full-board meetings in 2023. Ties share a rank.
1Jim Lehan18 of 19 meetings · served from Feb95%2Kevin Kalkut19 of 21 meetings90%2Anita Mecklenburg19 of 21 meetings90%24 full-board meetings in 2022. Ties share a rank.
1Kevin Kalkut24 of 24 meetings Every meeting100%2Anita Mecklenburg23 of 24 meetings96%3Carolyn Van Tine9 of 13 meetings · served until Jun69%From the official minutes: full-board meetings only (committee meetings are not counted). Members are counted only for meetings held while they served, and arriving late counts as attending. The minutes rarely say why a member was absent.
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Meetings
About missing minutes
Loaded: Norfolk Select Board minutes from January 4, 2022 through July 13, 2026, including community forums, pre-Town Meeting sessions and one joint meeting with the School Committee (only the Select Board members’ votes are shown). These come from the Town Clerk’s minutes page, which holds the board’s minutes from January 2022 on. Not here: minutes before 2022 (not online); March 1 and April 5, 2022 (the posted files are empty); May 18, 2026 (its link opens the May 28 minutes); several forums, a March 7, 2026 joint meeting with the Advisory Committee and other sessions that have a video but no minutes; and meetings after July 13, 2026 (August 7, August 17, September 2, September 14 and September 28, 2026 minutes are not posted yet). Most minutes from March 2022 to January 2026 are scanned images, which MassVoter read with text recognition and checked by hand. Norfolk’s minutes name the mover and seconder and usually say “all were in favor” or list a roll call (“Mr. Roche - aye, Ms. Hickman - aye, Ms. Mecklenburg - aye”), so each member present is shown voting yes; the few split votes and abstentions are named in the minutes. From July 2022 to February 2023 the board had two members after a resignation. Members who arrived late, stepped aside or did not take part are not shown as voting, with a note. Eleven motions with no vote recorded are not 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.
May 28Amend the charge for the Norfolk School Building Committee…Motion: A motion was made by Mr. Roche to vote to amend…Passed 2–0 · see note
May 28, 2026: Amend the charge for the Norfolk School Building Committee composition to be thirteen members
A motion was made by Mr. Roche to vote to amend the charge for the Norfolk School Building Committee composition to be thirteen members.
Yes: Mecklenburg, RocheTaiese Hickman did not take part in this vote (the minutes say so); not shown as voting.
From the minutes
“A motion was made by Mr. Roche to vote to amend the charge for the Norfolk School Building Committee composition to be thirteen members. The motion was seconded by Ms. Mecklenburg and a roll call vote was taken: Mr. Roche- aye; Ms. Mecklenburg -aye. Ms. Hickman was absent at the time the vote was taken. The motion passed..” (Motion: Roche, second: Mecklenburg)
From the Norfolk Select Board’s official minutes, posted on the Town Clerk’s meeting minutes page. We check every vote against the Select Board members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Photos: Town of Norfolk (Select Board page, norfolkmass.gov).
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