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Stoneham Select Board

How the Stoneham Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 5 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms. The same five members served after the April 2, 2024 town election. On April 9, 2024 the board unanimously chose Raymie Parker as Chair, Timothy Waitkevitch as Vice Chair and Heidi Bilbo as Clerk (roll calls). George Seibold’s last meeting was March 25, 2025. Covers 28 meetings, April 9 to March 25, 2025.

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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 Stoneham, Town Meeting — not the Select Board — votes the town budget, bylaws and zoning. Here is what it did with each article, in the Town Clerk’s own words. Any registered voter can take part, and most votes are by voice or show of hands, so there is no list of who voted which way.

Annual Town Meeting · May 4, 2026 19 votes: 11 passed, 2 failed, 6 indefinitely postponed

Source: Town Clerk: Minutes for Town Meeting, Monday, May 4, 2026 (Annual Town Meeting, PDF).

Special Town Meeting · October 20, 2025 12 votes: 11 passed, 1 failed

Source: Town Clerk: Minutes for Town Meeting, Monday, October 20, 2025 (Special Town Meeting, PDF).

Annual Town Meeting · May 5, 2025 13 votes: 10 passed, 1 passed as amended, 1 indefinitely postponed, 1 no action

Source: Town Clerk: Minutes for Town Meeting, Monday, May 5, 2025 (Annual Town Meeting, PDF).

Special Town Meeting · October 21, 2024 11 votes: 11 passed

Source: Town Clerk: Minutes for Town Meeting, Monday, October 21, 2024 (Special Town Meeting, PDF).

Annual Town Meeting · May 6, 2024 17 votes: 17 passed

Source: Town Clerk: Minutes for Town Meeting, Monday, May 6, 2024 (Annual Town Meeting, PDF).

Not here yet: No Town Meeting after May 4, 2026 is posted yet; Stoneham usually holds a fall Special Town Meeting in October (October 21 in 2024, October 20 in 2025).

Titles are short descriptions of each article from the official record; the quoted words are the Town Clerk’s. A vote at Town Meeting is not the final word on everything: some articles also need a ballot vote (such as a tax override) or the Attorney General’s approval (bylaws).

Members

Heidi BilboClerk · At-large · at 24 of 28 meetingsDavid PignoneMember · At-large · at 20 of 28 meetingsGeorge SeiboldMember · At-large · at 27 of 28 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: Stoneham Select Board minutes from January 9, 2018 through May 4, 2026: 237 meetings and 1,973 votes. The town’s Agenda Center holds the board’s minutes back to 2016; MassVoter has loaded 2018 on. Until early 2019 the board was the Board of Selectmen; in February 2018 the board accepted a Town Meeting article for a home rule petition to rename it, the minutes use “Select Board” from January 22, 2019, and on February 5, 2019 State Representative Michael Day told the board the name change had passed the Legislature. The minutes are typed documents with searchable text (the October 21, 2019 minutes are posted as a Word file). Not here: executive-session minutes; cancelled meetings; votes of the School Committee, Finance and Advisory Board, Planning Board, Housing Authority and Library Trustees at joint meetings; public engagement sessions and other events the board attended without holding its own business; meetings with an agenda but no posted minutes (among them June 19, September 11 and 18, October 2 and 16, November 5 and 20, 2018, where no minutes are posted from late August 2018 to January 2019; several joint budget meetings with the School Committee and the Finance and Advisory Board from 2019 to 2026; and August 12, 2025, where the agenda is posted in the minutes slot); four dates where the file posted as minutes is another meeting’s minutes or the agenda (March 27, 2018, 9:00 p.m.; June 6, 2018; February 12, 2019; April 29, 2025); and meetings after May 4, 2026 (the minutes of May 19, June 2, June 16 and June 23, 2026 and later meetings are not posted; since June 2026 the board’s agendas are posted on the town calendar and in the Document Center, not in the Agenda Center). Stoneham’s minutes name the mover and seconder. Most votes since 2020 are roll calls that list every member by name (“A roll call vote was taken. Voting in favor: … Voting against: … Motion passes (4-1)”), shown as each member’s vote. Other votes read “Voted unanimously,” shown as every member present voting yes, or give a count with the members who voted no or abstained named (“Voted (4-1) with Lau voting in the negative”), shown with the other members present voting yes. Where the count and the members named or present do not match (for example a roll call that lists four names under a 4-1-0 count “with Bilbo abstaining”), we show the count only (23 votes); two votes where members chose between nominees show the result only. Members who recused themselves or left the room are not shown in that vote. A motion with no recorded outcome is not counted as a vote. We will ask the town to confirm any noted vote.

Tuesday, March 25, 2025 · Regular meeting10 recorded votes, 2 with disagreementAbsent: David PignoneTuesday, March 11, 2025 · Regular meeting6 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAbsent: George SeiboldThursday, March 6, 2025 · Regular meeting4 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAbsent: Timothy WaitkevitchTuesday, February 25, 2025 · Regular meeting7 recorded votes, 1 with disagreementAll 5 members presentThursday, February 13, 2025 · Regular meeting5 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 5 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.

Mar 25Approve the Grant of LocationMotion: Seibold moved to approve the Grant of Location. Waitkevitch seconded the…Passed 3–0 · see note

March 25, 2025: Approve the Grant of Location

ApprovePassed · 3–0

Seibold moved to approve the Grant of Location. Waitkevitch seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken. Voting in favor: Raymie Parker Timothy Waitkevitch George Seibold Motion Passes (3-0)

Yes: Parker, Seibold, WaitkevitchThe minutes say “Bilbo left the hearing room” before this item and “returned to the hearing room” after this vote; the roll call (3-0) lists the three members in the room, and Heidi Bilbo is not shown voting.

From the minutes

“Seibold moved to approve the Grant of Location. Waitkevitch seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken. Voting in favor: Raymie Parker Timothy Waitkevitch George Seibold Motion Passes (3-0).” (Motion: Seibold, second: Waitkevitch)

Read it in the official minutes, page 2 (PDF)

Mar 25Approve the minutes form 3/11/25Motion: Bilbo moved to approve the minutes form 3/11/25. Waitkevitch seconded the…Passed 3–0 · Abstained: Seibold

March 25, 2025: Approve the minutes form 3/11/25

Approve minutesPassed · 3–0

Bilbo moved to approve the minutes form 3/11/25. Waitkevitch seconded the motion. Voted unanimously with Seibold abstaining.

Yes: Bilbo, Parker, WaitkevitchAbstained: SeiboldThe minutes record the vote as unanimous “with Seibold abstaining”; the members who voted are shown voting yes and the abstainer as abstaining.

From the minutes

“Bilbo moved to approve the minutes form 3/11/25. Waitkevitch seconded the motion. Voted unanimously with Seibold abstaining..” (Motion: Bilbo, second: Waitkevitch)

Read it in the official minutes, page 4 (PDF)

Feb 25Approve the minutes from 2/11/25Motion: Bilbo moved to approve the minutes from 2/11/25. Waitkevitch seconded the…Passed 4–0 · Abstained: Pignone

February 25, 2025: Approve the minutes from 2/11/25

Approve minutesPassed · 4–0

Bilbo moved to approve the minutes from 2/11/25. Waitkevitch seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken. Voting in favor: Raymie Parker Timothy Waitkevitch Heidi Bilbo George Seibold Motion Passes (4-0) with Pignone abstaining

Yes: Bilbo, Parker, Seibold, WaitkevitchAbstained: PignoneThe roll call does not list David Pignone; the minutes say “with Pignone abstaining”, so David Pignone is shown abstaining.

From the minutes

“Bilbo moved to approve the minutes from 2/11/25. Waitkevitch seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken. Voting in favor: Raymie Parker Timothy Waitkevitch Heidi Bilbo George Seibold Motion Passes (4-0) with Pignone abstaining.” (Motion: Bilbo, second: Waitkevitch)

Read it in the official minutes, page 4 (PDF)

Feb 11Approve the Class II licenseMotion: Waitkevitch moved to approve the Class II license. Bilbo seconded the…Passed 3–0 · see note

February 11, 2025: Approve the Class II license

ApprovePassed · 3–0

Waitkevitch moved to approve the Class II license. Bilbo seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken. Voting in favor: Raymie Parker Timothy Waitkevitch Heidi Bilbo Motion Passes (3-0)

Yes: Bilbo, Parker, WaitkevitchThe roll call does not list George Seibold, who was present; that member is not shown voting.

From the minutes

“Waitkevitch moved to approve the Class II license. Bilbo seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken. Voting in favor: Raymie Parker Timothy Waitkevitch Heidi Bilbo Motion Passes (3-0).” (Motion: Waitkevitch, second: Bilbo)

Read it in the official minutes, page 2 (PDF)

Jan 7Approve the minutes of 12/17/24Motion: Seibold moved to approve the minutes of 12/17/24. Waitkevitch seconded the…Passed 3–2 · see note

January 7, 2025: Approve the minutes of 12/17/24

Approve minutesPassed · 3–2

Seibold moved to approve the minutes of 12/17/24. Waitkevitch seconded the motion. Voted 3-2-0 with Pignone and Bilbo abstaining.

The minutes record the vote as “Voted 3-2-0” “with Pignone and Bilbo abstaining”, but Raymie Parker, Timothy Waitkevitch, Heidi Bilbo, David Pignone and George Seibold were present; the count and the members present do not match, so the count only is shown.

From the minutes

“Seibold moved to approve the minutes of 12/17/24. Waitkevitch seconded the motion. Voted 3-2-0 with Pignone and Bilbo abstaining..” (Motion: Seibold, second: Waitkevitch)

Read it in the official minutes, page 2 (PDF)

Dec 10Approve the common victuallers licenses for 2025Motion: Waitkevitch moved to approve the common victuallers licenses for 2025. Pignone…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note

December 10, 2024: Approve the common victuallers licenses for 2025

ApprovePassed · Unanimous, 5 present

Waitkevitch moved to approve the common victuallers licenses for 2025. Pignone seconded the motion. Voted unanimously with Pignone abstaining on the vote for Pignone's Café.

The minutes say “with Pignone abstaining on the vote for Pignone’s Café” (part of this motion); David Pignone is shown voting yes on the motion as a whole, as the count records.

From the minutes

“Waitkevitch moved to approve the common victuallers licenses for 2025. Pignone seconded the motion. Voted unanimously with Pignone abstaining on the vote for Pignone's Café..” (Motion: Waitkevitch, second: Pignone)

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

Dec 10Approve the entertainment licenses for 2025Motion: Bilbo moved to approve the entertainment licenses for 2025. Seibold seconded…Passed Unanimous, 5 present · see note

December 10, 2024: Approve the entertainment licenses for 2025

ApprovePassed · Unanimous, 5 present

Bilbo moved to approve the entertainment licenses for 2025. Seibold seconded the motion. Voted unanimously with Seibold abstaining on the vote for Bear Hill Golf Club.

The minutes say “with Seibold abstaining on the vote for Bear Hill Golf Club” (part of this motion); George Seibold is shown voting yes on the motion as a whole, as the count records.

From the minutes

“Bilbo moved to approve the entertainment licenses for 2025. Seibold seconded the motion. Voted unanimously with Seibold abstaining on the vote for Bear Hill Golf Club..” (Motion: Bilbo, second: Seibold)

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

Nov 19Approve the minutes of 10/15/24Motion: Waitkevitch moved to approve the minutes of 10/15/24. Pignone seconded the…Passed 4–0 · Abstained: Bilbo

November 19, 2024: Approve the minutes of 10/15/24

Approve minutesPassed · 4–0

Waitkevitch moved to approve the minutes of 10/15/24. Pignone seconded the motion. Voted 4-0-1 with Bilbo abstaining.

Yes: Parker, Pignone, Seibold, WaitkevitchAbstained: Bilbo

From the minutes

“Waitkevitch moved to approve the minutes of 10/15/24. Pignone seconded the motion. Voted 4-0-1 with Bilbo abstaining..” (Motion: Waitkevitch, second: Pignone)

Read it in the official minutes, page 4 (PDF)

Oct 15Approve the minutes of 10/1/24Motion: Waitkevitch moved to approve the minutes of 10/1/24. Seibold seconded the…Passed 3–0 · Abstained: Pignone

October 15, 2024: Approve the minutes of 10/1/24

Approve minutesPassed · 3–0

Waitkevitch moved to approve the minutes of 10/1/24. Seibold seconded the motion. Voted unanimously with Pignone abstaining.

Yes: Parker, Seibold, WaitkevitchAbstained: PignoneThe minutes record the vote as unanimous “with Pignone abstaining”; the members who voted are shown voting yes and the abstainer as abstaining.

From the minutes

“Waitkevitch moved to approve the minutes of 10/1/24. Seibold seconded the motion. Voted unanimously with Pignone abstaining..” (Motion: Waitkevitch, second: Seibold)

Read it in the official minutes, page 2 (PDF)

Aug 6Approve the minutes of 7/22/24Motion: Waitkevitch moved to approve the minutes of 7/22/24. Seibold seconded the…Passed 3–0 · Abstained: Bilbo, Pignone

August 6, 2024: Approve the minutes of 7/22/24

Approve minutesPassed · 3–0

Waitkevitch moved to approve the minutes of 7/22/24. Seibold seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken. Voting in favor: Raymie Parker Timothy Waitkevitch George Seibold Motion Passes (3-0-2) with Pignone and Bilbo abstaining.

Yes: Parker, Seibold, WaitkevitchAbstained: Bilbo, PignoneThe roll call does not list David Pignone; the minutes say “with Pignone and Bilbo abstaining”, so David Pignone is shown abstaining. The roll call does not list Heidi Bilbo; the minutes say “with Pignone and Bilbo abstaining”, so Heidi Bilbo is shown abstaining.

From the minutes

“Waitkevitch moved to approve the minutes of 7/22/24. Seibold seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken. Voting in favor: Raymie Parker Timothy Waitkevitch George Seibold Motion Passes (3-0-2) with Pignone and Bilbo abstaining..” (Motion: Waitkevitch, second: Seibold)

Read it in the official minutes, page 4 (PDF)

From the Stoneham Select Board’s official minutes, posted in the town’s Agenda Center (Select Board). We check every vote against the Select Board members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Photos: Town of Stoneham, Select Board page (captioned group photo). Cropped by MassVoter. Former members show initials.

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