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How the Plainville Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 3 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms. Maggie Clarke was elected on April 3, 2023 and sworn in on April 10, 2023, succeeding Stanley Widak. That night Brian Kelly moved, and Jeff Johnson seconded, to choose Jeff Johnson as Chair, Brian Kelly as Vice-Chair and Maggie Clarke as Clerk; the minutes do not record the vote, but later minutes list these officers. Covers 22 meetings, April 10 to March 25, 2024.
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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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"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.
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.
Most board votes are unanimous. These are the ones where at least one member voted no or abstained, newest first.
March 25, 2024: Approve the Event Permit Application for the Spirit of Plainville Pending Application Review by Department Heads and waived the application fee
Mr. Kelly moved, and Mr. Johnson seconded a motion that the Board approve the Event Permit Application for the Spirit of Plainville Pending Application Review by Department Heads and waived the application fee. PASSED: UNANIMOUSLY
Yes: Johnson, KellyMaggie Clarke recused herself from this item (the minutes say so), so she is not counted.
“Mr. Kelly moved, and Mr. Johnson seconded a motion that the Board approve the Event Permit Application for the Spirit of Plainville Pending Application Review by Department Heads and waived the application fee. PASSED: UNANIMOUSLY.” (Motion: Kelly, second: Johnson)
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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