Votes at a glance: Lakeville Select Board actions, May 19, 2025

The Town of Lakeville Select Board took a series of formal votes at its May 19 meeting. The board adopted minutes, approved licenses, authorized grant submission, endorsed the FY26 budget recommendation and voted on roadway layout items tied to the Route 79 project. Below is a concise listing of each formal action recorded on the meeting agenda and the outcome as stated on the record.

Votes at a glance

1) Approve Select Board meeting minutes (04/28/2025 and 05/05/2025) - Motion: Approve minutes as presented. - Outcome: Approved by roll call (unanimous)

2) Approve submission of FY26 Community One Stop application (economic development strategy) - Motion: Approve application submission as presented. - Outcome: Approved by roll call (unanimous)

3) Approve sign placement for Strawberry Festival (Tuesday Club) - Motion: Allow a sign at Precinct and Rhode Island Road intersection. - Outcome: Approved (vote recorded as aye)

4) Approve Totten Water connection (37 Myrick Street) - Motion: Approve connection to Taunton Water for property at 37 Myrick Street with maximum usage 440 gallons per day. - Outcome: Approved by roll call (unanimous)

5) Approve Common Victualler license transfer (166 County Street) - Motion: Approve license for Saint Joseph and Saint Rita Corp, term to expire 12/31/2025. - Outcome: Approved by roll call (unanimous)

6) Appoint National Voter Registration Act coordinator (town clerk request) - Motion: Honor town clerk’s request to designate and appoint her as NVRA coordinator with term 05/06/2025–07/31/2025. - Outcome: Approved by roll call (unanimous)

7) Technology Advisory Subcommittee select board designee - Motion: Nominate and appoint a select board member to serve on the technology advisory subcommittee. - Outcome: Select board member (name: Planca/Plunka recorded in minutes) appointed by roll call (unanimous). Board asked member to serve and report back.

8) Lakeville Mixed Martial Arts license agreement - Motion: Enter into three‑year license agreement with Lakeville Mixed Martial Arts, term 05/20/2025–05/19/2028 (as corrected at meeting). - Outcome: Approved by roll call (unanimous)

9) Sign purchase and sale and closing documents for 0 Cherry Street parcel - Motion: Authorize the select board signatory authority for purchase and sale, deed and closing documents associated with sale of 0 Cherry Street. - Outcome: Approved by roll call (unanimous)

10) Layout and alteration of public roadways (Route 79 project related list) - Motion: Vote intention to layout public roadway alterations shown on the plan dated 05/09/2025 and forward to planning board for report pursuant to G.L. c.41, §81. - Outcome: Approved by roll call (unanimous); planning board to report back.

11) Public hearing and vote to adopt layout of portion of Harrison Avenue (portion affected by Route 79 project) - Motion: Open public hearing; close hearing; adopt layout for the portion of Harrison Avenue (engineered plan dated 02/24/2025) pursuant to G.L. c.82, §22 / G.L. c.41, §81 as applicable. - Outcome: Board opened and closed the hearing and voted the layout motion (roll call yielded unanimous approval).

12) Appoint select board designee to finalist interview panel for executive assistant to the select board and town administrator - Motion: Appoint Select Board member Paul Hunt as the board’s designee for finalist interviews for the executive assistant position. - Outcome: Approved by roll call (unanimous)

13) Nonunion annual compensation increase (town employees) - Motion: Support town administrator recommendation of a 3% increase for nonunion employees for FY26. - Outcome: Approved by roll call (unanimous)

14) Planning department clerk stipend (retroactive adjustment) - Motion: Approve stipend payment of $980 for planning department clerk for added duties between March 24 and May 9. - Outcome: Approved by roll call (unanimous); board directed staff to return with policy language for future stipends.

15) Special election to fill select board vacancy - Motion: Do not hold a special election to fill the current vacancy; leave the seat vacant until the regular election cycle. - Outcome: Motion passed by roll call (unanimous)

16) Approve final special and annual town meeting warrants for June 9, 2025 - Motion: Approve final special and annual town meeting warrants as presented (special meeting earlier in the evening; annual at 7:00 p.m.). - Outcome: Warrants approved by roll call; board and staff will finalize recommendations and deliver materials to the finance committee for review on June 2.

Notes on procedure and next steps: The minutes and many of the motions were recorded as unanimous roll calls in the transcript. Where the transcript records delegation, staff were generally directed to circulate final drafts or follow up with the appropriate board/committee (planning board for road layouts; finance committee for warrant recommendations). Several items approved will be returned with detailed cost estimates, permit steps or contract documents for final approvals at a later meeting. The board moved into executive session at the end of the public meeting to discuss collective bargaining and personnel matters and did not return to open session.

If readers need the official motion text or the full roll‑call record, the detailed motions and roll‑call lists are available in the town’s meeting minutes and the official warrant packet.