In Plymouth, the committee appointed by the Select Board to assist the personnel consultant, Bernard Lynch in the search for a new town manager, has narrowed down its search.
Bobbi Clark has more:
Former Selectman David Malaguti, a member the search committee, has an update:
“We originally received twenty-five names. We met and winnowed that down to seven we chose to interview, but then we had one withdraw. So we interviewed six. Of those six we have three names to submit to the Selectmen.”
The consultant will submit those names to the Select Board on January 4th …
“…and I believe they’re going to interview and perhaps vote on the 11th.”
So, it’s possible that the town could have a new town manager on board at a yearly salary of two hundred thousand dollars, plus benefits, while at the same time former Town Manager Melissa Arrighi, will be paid not to work as Town Manager until her contract ends next July. An amount of two hundred seventy-seven thousand eighty-six dollars, an amount that includes severance pay.
Arrighi’s title now is Special Assistant to the Acting Town Manager and Select Board, a position that has never before existed. And even though Planning Director Lee Hartmann has been working as Acting Town Manager for several weeks and Arrighi has held the title as his Special Assistant for that time, the Select Board at its meeting tonight, will vote to ratify this transition agreement and to approve the creation of the Special Assistant Position.
The Board meets via zoom tonight at 6.
