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Plainville Select Board
How the Plainville Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 3 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms. Steven (Steve) Albert joined the board after the April 6, 2026 town election; Maggie Clarke’s term ended. On April 13, 2026 the board voted unanimously to reorganize with Jeff Johnson as Chair, Brian Kelly as Vice-Chair and Steve Albert as Clerk. Minutes after August 31, 2026 are not posted yet. The end date is a placeholder. Covers 10 meetings so far, April 13 to August 31, 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 budgetYour Plainville ballot: 13 quizzes, about a minute each.
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Plainville Select Board: 7 out of 10 · Mostly open
How easy Plainville 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 nearly every meeting more than three months old.Full points: 2/2
- Each vote namedVotes where a member disagreed list how each member voted.Full points: 3/3
- Posted quicklyMost minutes go up within about five to seven weeks, but one recent meeting is still missing.Part points: 1/2
- Past years onlineSelect Board minutes from 2021 to today are online.Full points: 1/1
- Readable textThe minutes are scanned images, not searchable text.No points: 0/1
- Member photosThe town’s website lists the members by name only, with no photos.No points: 0/1
How the town can raise its score
- Posted quickly (+1): Post minutes within 30 days. If approval takes longer, post a draft marked “Draft – not yet approved” and replace it later.
- 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.
- Member photos (+1): Show a photo of each member on the board’s web page, with their name, the date their term ends and how to contact them. A group photo of the members, with everyone named in the caption or on the same page, earns half a point.
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Board years
Coming up
- Tue, Oct 13Select Board- Regular Meeting →
From the agendas Plainville posts on its official site. Agendas can change; the posted agenda is the official one.
Members
ChairJeff JohnsonChair · Elected townwide · at 10 of 10 meetings
Vice-ChairBrian KellyVice-Chair · Elected townwide · at 7 of 10 meetings
Steven AlbertClerk · 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.
Attendance
17 full-board meetings so far this year, through August 31. Ties share a rank.
1Jeff Johnson17 of 17 meetings Every meeting100%1Steven Albert10 of 10 meetings · served from Apr Every meeting100%1Maggie Clarke7 of 7 meetings · served until Mar Every meeting100%4Brian Kelly13 of 17 meetings76%26 full-board meetings in 2025. Ties share a rank.
1Maggie Clarke26 of 26 meetings Every meeting100%1Jeff Johnson26 of 26 meetings Every meeting100%3Brian Kelly25 of 26 meetings96%23 full-board meetings in 2024. Ties share a rank.
1Maggie Clarke23 of 23 meetings Every meeting100%1Jeff Johnson23 of 23 meetings Every meeting100%3Brian Kelly21 of 23 meetings91%23 full-board meetings in 2023. Ties share a rank.
1Jeff Johnson23 of 23 meetings Every meeting100%1Maggie Clarke16 of 16 meetings · served from Apr Every meeting100%1Stanley Widak6 of 6 meetings · served until Mar Every meeting100%4Brian Kelly22 of 23 meetings96%25 full-board meetings in 2022. Ties share a rank.
1Jeff Johnson25 of 25 meetings Every meeting100%2Brian Kelly24 of 25 meetings96%2Stanley Widak24 of 25 meetings96%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. Not shown: 2021, because too many of that year’s meetings are missing from the posted minutes.
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Meetings
About missing minutes
Loaded: Plainville Select Board minutes from June 21, 2021 through August 31, 2026, from the town’s Agenda Center, which holds the board’s minutes from June 2021 on. Not here: minutes from before June 21, 2021, which are not on the town’s website (MassVoter is asking the town for them); meetings with an agenda but no posted minutes (for example the June 4 and July 20, 2026 joint meetings with the School Committee and the May 18, 2026 meeting); and meetings after August 31, 2026 (the town usually posts minutes about five to seven weeks after a meeting). Every minutes file is a scanned image, which MassVoter read with text recognition and checked by hand. Plainville’s minutes name who made and seconded each motion and usually say “PASSED: UNANIMOUSLY”; when they do, every member present is shown voting yes. Roll calls (used for executive sessions, liquor licenses and votes where a member disagreed) name each member’s vote, and those are shown as recorded. Where the minutes give only a count that does not say who voted which way, we show the count only and add a note; where they give no count or names, we show the result only. Some 2026 minutes list motions without saying whether they passed or how anyone voted; those motions are not shown as votes. Votes taken by other boards at joint meetings (Finance Committee, School Committee, Board of Health, Planning Board) are left out; joint votes to fill a vacancy show only the Select Board members’ votes. Members who recused themselves 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.
Jun 30Appoint Richard HamiltonMotion: Mr. McHugh made a motion to appoint Richard Hamilton, seconded by…Passed Unanimous, 2 present · see note
June 30, 2026 (Joint meeting): Appoint Richard Hamilton
Mr. McHugh made a motion to appoint Richard Hamilton, seconded by Mr. Albert. The motion passed 5-0-0
This was a joint vote with the Planning Board; the minutes record 5-0-0 on a roll call for both boards together, so each Select Board member present is shown voting yes. The motion was made by Planning Board member Mr. McHugh; an earlier motion by Mr. Albert to appoint Tina Desprez got no second. The motion was made by Mr. McHugh, who is not a Select Board member.
From the minutes
“Mr. McHugh made a motion to appoint Richard Hamilton, seconded by Mr. Albert. The motion passed 5-0-0.” (second: Albert)
From the Plainville 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. Select Board member photos: North TV (local cable TV for North Attleborough and Plainville): Jeff Johnson from its April 5, 2024 election story “Johnson defeats Wydak for select board seat”; Brian Kelly from “Brian Noble and Brian Kelly Discuss the Upcoming Election”; Steven Albert from its 2026 Plainville Select Board candidate interviews. Former members show initials.
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