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Weston Select Board

How the Weston Select Board voted, from the Select Board’s official minutes. 5 Select Board members elected townwide for three-year terms (3 members until 2026). Douglas Gillespie served as Chair, with Christopher Houston and Harvey Boshart; the minutes are signed by Harvey Boshart as Clerk. MassVoter has loaded this board’s minutes from January 18, 2018 on; the start date is a placeholder. The minutes call the board the Board of Selectmen. Covers 8 meetings, January 18 to April 24, 2018.

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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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Members

Harvey BoshartClerk · At-large · at 8 of 8 meetingsChristopher HoustonMember · At-large · at 8 of 8 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: Weston Select Board minutes from January 18, 2018 through September 8, 2026: 237 meetings and 1,101 votes. Minutes back to June 2013 are online; MassVoter loaded 2018 on. The minutes call the board the Board of Selectmen through November 13, 2019 and the Select Board from December 10, 2019. The board had three members until May 2026; a special act approved by the May 2025 Annual Town Meeting, the Legislature (signed October 2025) and the voters at a January 13, 2026 special election enlarged it to five, and the first five-member meeting was May 12, 2026. Many minutes from 2024 to 2026 are posted as scanned images; MassVoter read them with text recognition and checked every name and vote line by hand. Included: regular and special meetings, joint meetings with other boards (only the Select Board members’ votes are shown), the Financial Summits and All Committee meetings the board posted, and the board’s own Water Tank Working Group meetings (all three members, 2025-2026). Not here: executive-session minutes; the MBTA 3A Working Group and Fire Station Working Group (separate groups that include some Select Board members), whose minutes are filed in the same Agenda Center folder; summaries of site visits (informational, no votes); meetings with an agenda but no posted minutes (regular meetings on January 11, April 12, June 7 and July 26, 2022 and November 14 and December 5, 2023; a joint meeting with the Recreation Commission on December 13, 2022; and most of the yearly Financial Summits and All Committee meetings, including October 27 and November 1, 2025); and meetings after September 8, 2026 (the September 29, 2026 minutes are not posted yet). Through 2019 most votes read “2nd by Mr. Gillespie. Approved unanimously”, shown as every member present voting yes. Since 2020 nearly every vote is a roll call naming each member who voted yes, with any no vote or abstention named (“Ms. Revers and Mr. McDonald voted in the affirmative and Mr. Palmer voted against”), shown by name. A roll call that leaves out a member who was at the meeting is shown with the named votes only, with a note; where the minutes give no names or count we show the result only (3 votes), and where a roll call names one member twice we show the count only (1 vote). Members who recused themselves, arrived late or left early are shown only in the votes they took part in. A motion with no recorded outcome (several consent agendas, for example) is not counted as a vote. We will ask the town to confirm any noted vote.

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 · Regular meeting5 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentTuesday, April 3, 2018 · Regular meeting7 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentTuesday, March 27, 2018 · Regular meeting4 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentThursday, March 15, 2018 · Regular meeting5 recorded votes, 0 with disagreementAll 3 members presentTuesday, February 27, 2018 · Regular meeting3 recorded votes, 1 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 27Appoint Laura Azzam to fill the vacancy on the…Motion: MOTION: Mr. Houston moved to appoint Laura Azzam to fill the…Passed 2–0 · see note

February 27, 2018: Appoint Laura Azzam to fill the vacancy on the Board of Health created by the resignation of Karl Benedict to serve until the Annual Town Election in May 2018

AppointPassed · 2–0

MOTION: Mr. Houston moved to appoint Laura Azzam to fill the vacancy on the Board of Health created by the resignation of Karl Benedict to serve until the Annual Town Election in May 2018. Roll Call Vote: Mr. Kominz, Dr. DiPietro, Mr. Gillespie and Mr. Houston all voted in the affirmative

Yes: Gillespie, HoustonThe roll call does not list Harvey Boshart, who was at the meeting, so that member is left out of this vote.

From the minutes

“MOTION: Mr. Houston moved to appoint Laura Azzam to fill the vacancy on the Board of Health created by the resignation of Karl Benedict to serve until the Annual Town Election in May 2018. Roll Call Vote: Mr. Kominz, Dr. DiPietro, Mr. Gillespie and Mr. Houston all voted in the affirmative.” (Motion: Houston)

Read it in the official minutes, page 7 (PDF)

From the Weston 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 (the town’s website has no Select Board photos): Weston Observer — Al Aydelott, Rebecca Mercuri and Anupam Sachdev (Addison Antonoff, April 2026); Weston Owl — Lise Revers (April 2024) and John McDonald (courtesy photo, January 2025). Cropped by MassVoter. Former members show initials.

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