Correction: A previous version of this story stated that the Mattapoisett Republican Town Committee started the petition to reassess expanding the Select Board. The petition is being citizen led and is not sponsored by the committee.

MATTAPOISETT — The debate over a five-member Select Board in Mattapoisett isn’t over quite yet.

Nine weeks after Mattapoisett voters approved expanding the Select Board from three to five members in a voice vote at the Annual Town Meeting on May 12, some citizens are petitioning for a special Town Meeting to challenge this approval.

Paul Criscuolo started the petition after speaking with some friends who expressed interest in doing so.

He explained that he signed the petition as himself, submitted it to Town Administrator Michael Lorenco and is now waiting for the state attorney general to explain what wording needs to be used to make the petition actionable.

Criscuolo will be a guest speaker at the Republican Town Committee’s Thursday, July 17 meeting where he will discuss the petition, speaking to its purpose, why people should get involved with it and encourage people to do so.

He noted that the petition is not a Republican Town Committee effort but a citizen-led town effort.

The petition can move forward if it receives either 200 signatures or 20 percent of voters, whichever is smaller.

If reached, petitioners can request a special Town Meeting, which must be held no later than 45 days after the Select Board receives the request, according to the state’s Citizen’s Guide to Town Meetings.

Criscuolo’s petition comes after Select Board members voted on Tuesday, June 10 to move the Board expansion request to state officials to continue the process voters started at Town Meeting.

The June 10 vote also came two weeks after Board members tabled the matter, citing the fact that Town Meeting results hadn’t yet been certified at the time. Select Board Chair Tyler Macallister had also voiced several concerns regarding how the vote was handled at Town Meeting.

Macallister noted that “there were a number of non-voters in the audience that didn’t sit in the designated area” and said from where he sat there didn’t appear to be an overwhelming majority of voters in favor of Board expansion, which was a claim proponents of Board expansion disagreed with.

He also estimated that “roughly one third” of voters left Town Meeting after voting on whether to expand the Board.