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Stoughton Select Board
How the Stoughton Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 5 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms. After the April 2022 town election the same five members reorganized on April 12, 2022: Debra Roberts was chosen as Chair over Scott Carrara, and Stephen Cavey as Vice Chair. Covers 39 meetings, April 12 to March 28, 2023.
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 Stoughton ballot: 13 quizzes, about a minute each.
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From the agendas Stoughton posts on its official site. Agendas can change; the posted agenda is the official one.
Members
ChairDebra RobertsChair · Elected townwide · at 39 of 39 meetings
Vice-ChairStephen CaveyVice Chair · Elected townwide · at 36 of 39 meetings
Scott CarraraMember · Elected townwide · at 35 of 39 meetingsLouis GittoMember · Elected townwide · at 39 of 39 meetings
Joseph MokriskyMember · Elected townwide · at 34 of 39 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: Stoughton Select Board (formerly the Board of Selectmen) minutes from January 2, 2018 through August 28, 2026, from the town’s Agenda Center. Big gap: the town’s website has minutes for only 2 of the board’s 2019 meetings and 13 of its 2020 meetings, plus more than 20 other meetings from 2018 to 2024 that have an agenda but no minutes; MassVoter is asking the town for them. A few files on the website are filed under the wrong date or hold a different meeting’s minutes; we load each file under the meeting it really records and list these for the town. Meetings after August 28, 2026 are not posted yet. Forums and information sessions listed with the board’s agendas have no minutes and are not shown. Nearly every minutes file is a scanned image, which MassVoter read with text recognition and checked by hand. Stoughton’s minutes name who made and seconded each motion and give a count (for example “the motion passed 5 - yes 0 - no”). When the count covers every member present with no one voting no or abstaining, or the minutes say the vote was unanimous, every member present is shown voting yes. When some members voted no or abstained and the minutes do not say who, we show the count only, with a note; we never guess who voted which way from the discussion. Older minutes (2018 to 2021) often list each member’s roll-call vote, and those are shown by name. Where the minutes give no count or names, we show the result only. Votes taken by other boards at joint meetings (for example the School Committee or the Board of Assessors) are left out, and members who recused themselves are left out of that vote. 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.
Mar 28Open the meetingMotion: The motion to open the meeting was made by Mr. Mokrisky…Passed · see note
March 28, 2023: Open the meeting
The motion to open the meeting was made by Mr. Mokrisky and seconded by Mr. Gitto. The motion passed.
The minutes record the result only, not a count or how each member voted.
From the minutes
“The motion to open the meeting was made by Mr. Mokrisky and seconded by Mr. Gitto. The motion passed..” (Motion: Mokrisky, second: Gitto)
Mar 28Approve the six additional changes in the FY24 budgetMotion: Mr. Gitto made the motion to approve the six additional changes…Passed 4–0 · see note
March 28, 2023: Approve the six additional changes in the FY24 budget
Mr. Gitto made the motion to approve the six additional changes in the FY24 budget, motion seconded by Mr. Cavey. The board voted 4 yes 1 abstention to approve.
The minutes give only the count (4-0-1), not who voted no or abstained.
From the minutes
“Mr. Gitto made the motion to approve the six additional changes in the FY24 budget, motion seconded by Mr. Cavey. The board voted 4 yes 1 abstention to approve..” (Motion: Gitto, second: Cavey)
Mar 21Open the meetingMotion: The motion to open the meeting was made by Mr. Mokrisky…Passed · see note
March 21, 2023: Open the meeting
The motion to open the meeting was made by Mr. Mokrisky and seconded by Mr. Gitto. The motion passed.
The minutes record the result only, not a count or how each member voted.
From the minutes
“The motion to open the meeting was made by Mr. Mokrisky and seconded by Mr. Gitto. The motion passed..” (Motion: Mokrisky, second: Gitto)
Mar 20Open the meetingMotion: Mr. Mokrisky made the motion to open the meeting, seconded by…Passed · see note
March 20, 2023: Open the meeting
Mr. Mokrisky made the motion to open the meeting, seconded by Mr. Gitto. The motion passed.
The minutes record the result only, not a count or how each member voted.
From the minutes
“Mr. Mokrisky made the motion to open the meeting, seconded by Mr. Gitto. The motion passed..” (Motion: Mokrisky, second: Gitto)
Mar 14Open the meetingMotion: The motion to open the meeting was made by Mr. Mokrisky…Passed · see note
March 14, 2023: Open the meeting
The motion to open the meeting was made by Mr. Mokrisky and seconded by Mr. Gitto. The motion passed.
The minutes record the result only, not a count or how each member voted.
From the minutes
“The motion to open the meeting was made by Mr. Mokrisky and seconded by Mr. Gitto. The motion passed..” (Motion: Mokrisky, second: Gitto)
Mar 7Open the meetingMotion: The motion to open the meeting was made , by Mr.Carrara…Passed · see note
March 7, 2023: Open the meeting
The motion to open the meeting was made , by Mr.Carrara and seconded by Mr. Gitto. The motion passed.
The minutes record the result only, not a count or how each member voted.
From the minutes
“The motion to open the meeting was made , by Mr.Carrara and seconded by Mr. Gitto. The motion passed..” (Motion: Carrara, second: Gitto)
Mar 7Unanimously passed, all of which appear upon the official…Motion: unanimously passed, all of which appear upon the official record of…Passed Unanimous, 4 present · see note
March 7, 2023: Unanimously passed, all of which appear upon the official record of the board in my custody: Voted: that the sale of the $265,000 Sewer Bond of the Town dated March…
Unanimously passed, all of which appear upon the official record of the board in my custody: Voted: that the sale of the $265,000 Sewer Bond of the Town dated March 13, 2023, to Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (the "Authority") is hereby approved and the Town Treasurer or other appropriate Town official is authorized to execute on behalf of the Town a Loan Agreement and a Financial Assistance Agreement with the Authority with respect to the bond.
The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“unanimously passed, all of which appear upon the official record of the board in my custody: Voted: that the sale of the $265,000 Sewer Bond of the Town dated March 13, 2023, to Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (the "Authority") is hereby approved and the Town Treasurer or other appropriate Town official is authorized to execute on behalf of the Town a Loan Agreement and a Financial Assistance Agreement with the Authority with respect to the bond..”
Feb 28Open the meetingMotion: The motion to open the meeting was made by Mr. Mokrisky…Passed · see note
February 28, 2023: Open the meeting
The motion to open the meeting was made by Mr. Mokrisky and seconded by Mr. Gitto. The motion passed.
The minutes record the result only, not a count or how each member voted.
From the minutes
“The motion to open the meeting was made by Mr. Mokrisky and seconded by Mr. Gitto. The motion passed..” (Motion: Mokrisky, second: Gitto)
Feb 21Open the meetingMotion: The motion was made and seconded to open the meeting. The…Passed · see note
February 21, 2023: Open the meeting
The motion was made and seconded to open the meeting. The motion passed.
The minutes record the result only, not a count or how each member voted. The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“The motion was made and seconded to open the meeting. The motion passed..”
Feb 7Open the meetingMotion: The motion was made and seconded to open the meeting. The…Passed · see note
February 7, 2023: Open the meeting
The motion was made and seconded to open the meeting. The motion passed.
The minutes record the result only, not a count or how each member voted. The minutes do not say who made this motion.
From the minutes
“The motion was made and seconded to open the meeting. The motion passed..”
From the Stoughton 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: video stills from Stoughton Media Access Corporation (SMAC, Stoughton’s local cable TV), each from a program that names the member on screen: Joseph Mokrisky from “Community Forum - Joe Mokrisky - Chairman of Select Board” (2021); Debra Roberts from “Stoughton Politics with...This Guy: Talking with Debra Roberts” (2025); Stephen Cavey from “Stoughton Politics with... This Guy: Interview with Select Board Chair Stephen Cavey” (2025); Scott Carrara from “Community Forum - Scott Carrara - Running for Stoughton Board of Selectmen” (2021); Lori Jacques from “A Lioness & You on the Watch: Interview with Select Board Candidate Lori Jacques” (2026). Former members show initials.
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