Expenses are minimal to switch from 'selectmen' to 'select board'
The Milford Daily News
More than 60 towns in Massachusetts have renamed their most powerful boards with gender-neutral titles in just the past two years.
Once the most widespread title for top town officials in the state, boards of selectmen now make up less than half of local leadership, dropping from 216 in June 2019 to 154 as of March 2021.
At the state level, the once-Massachusetts Selectmen’s Association became the Massachusetts Select Board Association in January, and state Sen. Will Brownsberger, D-Belmont, filed a bill last week that would replace all mentions of "selectmen" in the state Constitution with "select board."