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Raynham Select Board

How the Raynham Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 3 Select Board members elected townwide. Joseph Pacheco chaired the board from May 2016. Minutes from 2016 list Karen Donahue as Karen Roberts. Covers 43 meetings, May 3 to May 2, 2017.

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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 budget
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What Town Meeting decided

In Raynham, Town Meeting — not the Select Board — votes the town budget, bylaws and zoning. Raynham has not posted official results of its 2024–2026 Town Meetings online, so they are not here yet. We will add them when the Town Clerk’s records are available.

What we checked: No official results found online for any Raynham Town Meeting since January 2024 (Annual May 20, 2024; Special Nov 19, 2024; Special Jan 14, 2025; Annual May 19, 2025; Special Aug 5, 2025; Special Nov 17, 2025; Annual May 18, 2026). The town website posts only warrants, and the newest Annual Town Report online is 2020; ask the Town Clerk for the certified votes.

Members

Karen DonahueMember · Elected townwide · at 41 of 43 meetingsMarie SmithMember · Elected townwide · at 41 of 43 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 (formerly Board of Selectmen) minutes from January 2016 through July 14, 2026, as posted on the town website. Not here yet: minutes after July 14, 2026. Raynham’s minutes from 2016 to mid-2022 are written as sentences, usually naming all three members (for example, one member moves, another seconds, and the third “made it unanimous”); we show those votes as written. Since mid-2022 each vote gives the mover, the seconder and a count such as “3-0-0”, and often a roll call by name. When the count matches the members present with no one voting no, every member present is shown as voting yes; members named as voting no or abstaining are shown that way. Votes recorded only as “It was so voted” (no count, no names) show the result only, and votes that name only some of the members present show the count only, with a note. Motions the minutes record without any vote (a motion and a second with no result) are not listed. Some minutes were posted twice; each meeting appears once. We will ask the town to confirm any noted vote.

Tuesday, May 2, 2017 · Regular meeting1 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAbsent: Karen DonahueTuesday, April 25, 2017 · Regular meeting5 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentTuesday, April 18, 2017 · Regular meeting8 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentTuesday, April 11, 2017 · Regular meeting10 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentTuesday, April 4, 2017 · Regular meeting5 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members present

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 14Board of Selectmen: Chairman Joseph Pacheco called the meeting…Passed 2–0 · Abstained: Smith

February 14, 2017: Board of Selectmen: Chairman Joseph Pacheco called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m.

ApprovePassed · 2–0

Yes: Donahue, PachecoAbstained: Smith

From the minutes

“Present were Marie Smith, Joseph Pacheco and Karen Donahue February 14, 2017 Acceptance of the Minutes Mrs. Donahue motioned and Mr. Pacheco seconded to accept the minutes of the February 7, 2017 meeting as printed. Mrs. Smith abstained..” (Motion: Donahue, second: Pacheco)

Read it in the official minutes, page 1 (PDF)

From the Raynham Select Board’s official minutes, posted on the town website. We check every vote against the members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Photos: Joseph Pacheco from his 2024 state Senate campaign photo, published by The New Bedford Light; Matthew Andrade from the Taunton Daily Gazette (April 2026 candidate photos). Other members show initials.

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