In Plymouth, in communication with the Town Manager, the Select Board did change the subject from complaint to negotiation. But to correct the record, it was not posted that way on an agenda for an executive session.
However, it appears the Board did notify the Town Manager in some other way about a complaint against her.
Bobbi Clark has more…
Town Manager Melissa Arrighi:
“This is a stressful job as it is, and it only adds more when you hear from your Select Board that there is a complaint against you and you don’t know what it is. I can tell you that I don’t care how long you’ve been doing this line of work, your mind goes wild. Did you somehow break the law? Did you sign a contract that wasn’t vetted properly?”
Arrighi says usually when Town Managers have complaints against them…
“…it is something significant that you may have seen in the paper. That wasn’t the case here so I guess, certainly, it’s fine for me to say I’m curious about what those complaints were, but I tell you this at the end of the day, I oversee five hundred and something employees on the town side of government. There are going to be times when employees get upset with me when I have to admonish them, when I have to discipline them.”
The Town Manager says those are all steps…
“… that I am required to take under your town charter, and I know that doesn’t make me popular and I take those steps, so I can understand if one of those things happens and the employee or somebody then complained. But you know what I do what I have to do, what I believe is in the best interests of the town and that’s why I serve as your Town Manager.”
