Carver

Top issues

The five most-discussed unresolved issues, ranked by recorded discussion time (a measure of importance and contention), then by how many meetings they came up in.

Issues on upcoming agendas

Issues linked from the meetings scheduled in the next 10 days.

Recent updates

Issues with new information found in the last 7 days, newest first.

Upcoming meetings

Recent meetings

One page per meeting, summarizing every record we have of it (agenda, minutes, video and transcript).

Issues with near term decisions

Long running topics

No actions pending

Completed

Sources

Where the data comes from

• Town website: https://www.carverma.gov (Town of Carver, Plymouth County). Agendas and minutes are posted as PDFs in the Agenda Center, https://www.carverma.gov/AgendaCenter; boards are listed at https://www.carverma.gov/1197/Boards-Committees and notices at https://www.carverma.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx.
• Meeting video: Area 58 Community Access Media, YouTube channel Area58_Carver, https://www.youtube.com/@area58_carver35; broadcast on cable Channel 15 (one Select Board agenda says Channel 9, so the channel number is uncertain).
• Collected 2026-11-11 (added at Dewey's request).

Governing body

• Open Town Meeting (Annual Town Meeting in April; Special Town Meeting December 1, 2026). Select Board of five, meeting about the 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 5:00 PM (executive session first, open session about 6:00 PM) in Town Hall Meeting Room 1: Chair Mark Townsend, Vice Chair Dan Ryan, John Cotter, Sarah Hewins, Jim Elliman. The Select Board also serves as Water Commissioners since the North Carver Water District was dissolved on July 31, 2026.
• Town Administrator Glenn Cannon; Assistant Town Administrator Elaine Weston; Town Planner Sean Lewis; Town Clerk Cara Dahill; Fire Chief Eric Germaine; Director of Operations and Maintenance David Siedentopf
• Finance Committee: Chair Patrick Meagher
• Other bodies: Planning Board, Zoning Board of Appeals, Conservation Commission, School Committee (Carver is a member town of Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical School), Board of Health, Board of Assessors, Capital Funding Committee, Capital Outlay Committee, Community Preservation Committee, Economic Development Committee, Earth Removal Committee, Historic District Commission, Recreation Committee, Redevelopment Authority, Council on Aging, Housing Authority, Agricultural Commission, Library Trustees, Cultural Council

Data quality notes

• Select Board minutes of August 4, August 24, September 8, September 22 and October 6 were read in full. Select Board agendas of October 20, October 29 and November 10, Planning Board agendas of October 13, October 27 and November 10, Zoning Board of Appeals agendas of September 30 and November 5 and the Finance Committee agenda of October 26 were read; their outcomes are not known. Minutes of the October 20 and November 10 Select Board meetings had not been posted.
• Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals minutes were posted as scanned images and could not be read. Other boards (Board of Health, Conservation Commission, Community Preservation Committee, Capital Funding and others) are listed in the Agenda Center but were not read.
• The December 1 Special Town Meeting warrant text was not found; its page is built from Select Board and Planning Board agendas.
• Video captions have not been pulled yet. Video dates come from video titles. Meeting pages cover 2026-08-04 through 2026-12-08.