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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. Brian Kelly chaired the board (then still called the Board of Selectmen in its minutes), with Jeff Johnson and Stanley Widak. Minutes before June 21, 2021 are not on the town’s website (MassVoter is asking the town for them), so this board’s meetings are loaded from June 21, 2021 on. The start date is a placeholder; the loaded minutes do not name a Vice-Chair or Clerk for this year. Covers 21 meetings, June 21 to March 14, 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 budgetYour Plainville ballot: 13 quizzes, about a minute each.
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From the agendas Plainville posts on its official site. Agendas can change; the posted agenda is the official one.
Members
Jeff JohnsonMember · Elected townwide · at 21 of 21 meetingsStanley WidakMember · Elected townwide · at 20 of 21 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: 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.
Dec 13Sign the Memorandum of Understanding with Foxboro, Easton, Mansfield,…Motion: On a motion by Mr. Widak and a second by Mr.…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
December 13, 2021: Sign the Memorandum of Understanding with Foxboro, Easton, Mansfield, Norton and Sharon for shared public health inspectors
On a motion by Mr. Widak and a second by Mr. Johnson, PASSED: Unanimous.
The minutes describe the request in the item above the motion and do not repeat the motion’s wording.
From the minutes
“On a motion by Mr. Widak and a second by Mr. Johnson, PASSED: Unanimous..” (Motion: Widak, second: Johnson)
Aug 23Appoint Denise Nado to fill the Library Trustees vacancy…Motion: Motion by Mrs. LaMontagne, Second by Mr. Widak: I move that…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
August 23, 2021: Appoint Denise Nado to fill the Library Trustees vacancy until the annual town election (joint vote with the Library Trustees)
Motion by Mrs. LaMontagne, Second by Mr. Widak: I move that that the Select Board and the Board of Library Trustees appoint Denise Nado to serve until the annual town election to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Sherrill Minch. Mrs. LaMontagne, Mrs. Watkinson, Mr. Widak, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Kelly all voted in the affirmative. PASSED: Unanimously.
This was a joint vote with the Library Trustees; only the Select Board members’ votes are shown. The motion was made by Mrs. LaMontagne, who is not a Select Board member.
From the minutes
“Motion by Mrs. LaMontagne, Second by Mr. Widak: I move that that the Select Board and the Board of Library Trustees appoint Denise Nado to serve until the annual town election to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Sherrill Minch. Mrs. LaMontagne, Mrs. Watkinson, Mr. Widak, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Kelly all voted in the affirmative. PASSED: Unanimously..” (second: Widak)
Aug 16Appoint Justin Alexander to the vacant Planning Board position…Motion: Motion by Mr. Widak and seconded by Mr. Johnson to appoint…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
August 16, 2021 (Joint meeting): Appoint Justin Alexander to the vacant Planning Board position until the 2022 annual town election
Motion by Mr. Widak and seconded by Mr. Johnson to appoint Justin Alexander to the vacant Planning Board position until the 2022 annual town election. Passed: 5-0-0.
This was a joint vote with the Planning Board; the minutes record 5-0-0 for both boards together, so each Select Board member present is shown voting yes.
From the minutes
“Motion by Mr. Widak and seconded by Mr. Johnson to appoint Justin Alexander to the vacant Planning Board position until the 2022 annual town election. Passed: 5-0-0..” (Motion: Widak, second: Johnson)
Jul 19In accordance with the Town Bylaws Chapter 346, that…Motion: Mr. Johnson motioned to in accordance with the Town Bylaws Chapter…Passed Unanimous, 3 present · see note
July 19, 2021: In accordance with the Town Bylaws Chapter 346, that the Board approve the temporary vendor licenses of Aptive a a Environmental in the names of Chase Adams, Brett Barazoto, John…
Mr. Johnson motioned to in accordance with the Town Bylaws Chapter 346, that the Board approve the temporary vendor licenses of Aptive a a Environmental in the names of Chase Adams, Brett Barazoto, John Ellis, Tanner Evans, Carter Jones, Graham Jones, Macy LeCheminant, Benjamin Linchenko, Joseph Nelson, Thomas Nelson, Benjamin Peterson, Davis Stobbe, Ryan Stokes, Stephen Tveten, and Blake Wayment. Such licenses to be valid from July 23, 2021 until July 30, 2021 during the hours of 11 a.m. until sunset, seconded by Mr. Johnson Motion Voted Unanimously
The minutes name Jeff Johnson as both the mover and the seconder, so no seconder is shown.
From the minutes
“Mr. Johnson motioned to in accordance with the Town Bylaws Chapter 346, that the Board approve the temporary vendor licenses of Aptive a a Environmental in the names of Chase Adams, Brett Barazoto, John Ellis, Tanner Evans, Carter Jones, Graham Jones, Macy LeCheminant, Benjamin Linchenko, Joseph Nelson, Thomas Nelson, Benjamin Peterson, Davis Stobbe, Ryan Stokes, Stephen Tveten, and Blake Wayment. Such licenses to be valid from July 23, 2021 until July 30, 2021 during the hours of 11 a.m. until sunset, seconded by Mr. Johnson Motion Voted Unanimously.” (Motion: Johnson)
Jun 21Approve the Water and Sewer Rates as presented for…Motion: Mr. Johnson motioned to approve the Water and Sewer Rates as…Passed 2–0 · Abstained: Widak
June 21, 2021: Approve the Water and Sewer Rates as presented for FY22
Mr. Johnson motioned to approve the Water and Sewer Rates as presented for FY22, seconded by Mr. Kelly Motion Adopted Yea - Mr. Kelly, Mr. Johnson Abstain - Mr. Widak
Yes: Johnson, KellyAbstained: Widak
From the minutes
“Mr. Johnson motioned to approve the Water and Sewer Rates as presented for FY22, seconded by Mr. Kelly Motion Adopted Yea - Mr. Kelly, Mr. Johnson Abstain - Mr. Widak.” (Motion: Johnson, second: Kelly)
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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