Rochester Select Board

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.