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Rochester Select Board
How the Rochester Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 3 Select Board members elected townwide. Adam C. Murphy was re-elected in 2026. On June 1, 2026 the board chose Paul Ciaburri as Chair, Bradford N. Morse as Vice Chair and Adam C. Murphy as Clerk (each by a 2-0 vote). Minutes are posted through September 8, 2026. Covers 7 meetings so far, June 1 to September 8, 2026.
A monthly email on what it voted on, starting in November.
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 Rochester ballot: 14 quizzes, about a minute each.
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Rochester Select Board: 7 out of 10 · Mostly open
How easy Rochester makes it to see, online, how each member votes. It scores the town’s records, not any official. Checked October 4, 2026.
- Minutes postedMinutes are missing for some meetings more than three months old.Part points: 1/2
- Each vote namedSplit votes say how each member voted.Full points: 3/3
- Posted quicklyRecent minutes go up within about a month.Full points: 2/2
- Past years onlineSelect Board minutes from 2020 to today are online.Full points: 1/1
- Readable textThe minutes are scanned images, so you can’t search or copy the text.No points: 0/1
- Member photosThe Select Board page shows no member photos.No points: 0/1
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.
- 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.
How we score · Something wrong, or has the town made a change? Email info@massvoter.com and we’ll re-check.
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Board years
Coming up
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What Town Meeting decided
In Rochester, Town Meeting — not the Select Board — votes the town budget, bylaws and zoning. Rochester 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: Rochester has not posted official results for any Town Meeting since January 2024: its new website has only a draft warrant for the May 13, 2024 Annual Town Meeting and bylaw texts for 2024 meetings, its newest Annual Town Report online is for 2023, and its old website (townofrochesterma.gov), which had the Clerk's May 13, 2024 Annual Town Meeting minutes, is offline.
Members
"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
18 full-board meetings so far this year, through September 8. Ties share a rank.
1Paul Ciaburri18 of 18 meetings Every meeting100%2Bradford N. Morse17 of 18 meetings94%2Adam C. Murphy17 of 18 meetings94%28 full-board meetings in 2025. Ties share a rank.
1Paul Ciaburri28 of 28 meetings Every meeting100%1Adam C. Murphy28 of 28 meetings Every meeting100%3Bradford N. Morse26 of 28 meetings93%39 full-board meetings in 2024. Ties share a rank.
1Adam C. Murphy37 of 39 meetings95%2Paul Ciaburri33 of 39 meetings85%2Bradford N. Morse33 of 39 meetings85%24 full-board meetings in 2023. Ties share a rank.
1Adam C. Murphy15 of 15 meetings · served from Jun Every meeting100%1Greenwood Hartley III9 of 9 meetings · served until May Every meeting100%3Paul Ciaburri23 of 24 meetings96%4Bradford N. Morse19 of 24 meetings79%25 full-board meetings in 2022. Ties share a rank.
1Greenwood Hartley III25 of 25 meetings Every meeting100%1Bradford N. Morse25 of 25 meetings Every meeting100%3Paul Ciaburri24 of 25 meetings96%24 full-board meetings in 2021. Ties share a rank.
1Bradford N. Morse24 of 24 meetings Every meeting100%2Paul Ciaburri23 of 24 meetings96%2Greenwood Hartley III23 of 24 meetings96%31 full-board meetings in 2020. Ties share a rank.
1Paul Ciaburri31 of 31 meetings Every meeting100%2Greenwood Hartley III30 of 31 meetings97%3Bradford N. Morse29 of 31 meetings94%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.
A monthly email on its votes and who was there, starting in November.
Meetings
About missing minutes
Loaded: every Select Board (Board of Selectmen) meeting with minutes on the town website from January 2020 through September 8, 2026 (from the town's Document Center and Agenda Center). Not here: minutes before 2020, executive-session minutes, a few meetings whose minutes are not online (for example February 24, 2026, where the town posted the 2025 minutes by mistake), and minutes the town has not posted yet. Rochester's minutes are scanned paper copies, which we read by computer text recognition and checked by hand where the scan was unclear. They usually say "All members of the Board are in favor" or give a count ("Motion carries, 3-0"); in 2020 and at some later meetings they also give a roll call by name. When the minutes say all members were in favor, or give a count equal to the members present with no one opposed, we show every member present as voting yes. When a roll call names each member, or a split count names who voted no or abstained and the numbers add up, we show each member's vote. When a split count does not say who voted which way, or the count, the roll call and the members listed as present do not match, we show the count only and add a note. A member who makes or seconds motions but is not listed as present is not counted as present. Votes by other boards at joint meetings (Finance Committee, School Committee, Board of Assessors) are not included; where the board voted together with another board, only the Select Board members' votes are 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.
Jun 1That Paul Ciaburri be the Chair of the Select…Motion: To that Paul Ciaburri be the Chair of the Select Board.Passed 2–0 · see note
June 1, 2026: That Paul Ciaburri be the Chair of the Select Board
To that Paul Ciaburri be the Chair of the Select Board.
The minutes give a count of 2-0, but 3 members are listed as present, so we show the count only.
From the minutes
“Motion: A motion is made by Select Board member Murphy that Paul Ciaburri be the Chair of the Select Board. Motion is seconded by Select Board member Morse. Motion carries, 2-0..” (Motion: Murphy, second: Morse)
Jun 1That Bradford Morse be the Vice Chair of the…Motion: To that Bradford Morse be the Vice Chair of the Select…Passed 2–0 · see note
June 1, 2026: That Bradford Morse be the Vice Chair of the Select Board
To that Bradford Morse be the Vice Chair of the Select Board.
The minutes give a count of 2-0, but 3 members are listed as present, so we show the count only.
From the minutes
“Motion: A motion is made by Select Board member Murphy that Bradford Morse be the Vice Chair of the Select Board. Motion is seconded by Select Board member Ciaburri. Motion carries, 2-0..” (Motion: Murphy, second: Ciaburri)
Jun 1That Adam Murphy be the Clerk of the Select…Motion: To that Adam Murphy be the Clerk of the Select Board.Passed 2–0 · see note
June 1, 2026: That Adam Murphy be the Clerk of the Select Board
To that Adam Murphy be the Clerk of the Select Board.
The minutes give a count of 2-0, but 3 members are listed as present, so we show the count only.
From the minutes
“Motion: A motion is made by Select Board member Morse that Adam Murphy be the Clerk of the Select Board. Motion is seconded by Select Board member Ciaburri. Motion carries, 2-0..” (Motion: Morse, second: Ciaburri)
From the Rochester Select Board’s official minutes, posted in the town’s Document Center and Agenda Center. We check every vote against the members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials.
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