Gardner City assessors accept minutes, note prior chairman nomination and move into executive session

At 2:00 p.m. on Feb. 24, an assessor opened the Gardner City Board of Assessors meeting and a second assessor moved to accept the minutes from the Jan. 22, 2026 meeting; the motion was seconded. The transcript records the motion and second but does not include a roll-call or final tally in the available segments.

One assessor reported that the board had nominated Charles LeBlanc as chairman at the previous meeting, that LeBlanc accepted the nomination, and that the prior meeting had voted unanimously in his favor. "We did vote unanimously for him, at that last meeting," the assessor said.

Later in the meeting, an assessor moved "to move to executive session under General Laws Chapter 30A, Section 21(a)(7) to comply with our act under the authority of any general law, not to return to open session," and the other assessor seconded the motion. The transcript records the motion and second but does not show the succeeding action (for example, a recorded vote or formal announcement of recess) within the provided segments.

The transcript does not include public comment or statements from homeowners or outside stakeholders on the items discussed in the provided segments. The meeting moved from routine minutes and internal personnel notes into procedural business and then into an executive session motion; the available text does not record the result of that executive session motion.