Analysis: Town and Schools
Town Manager Screening Committee
Posted since 2016: 18 agendas, 8 sets of minutes, 6 recordings, 6 meetings with our minutes and 16 votes on the record. All boards.
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From Town Charter, Section 4-1:
The rest of what the town says about it (319 more words)
"The Town Manager shall be appointed by the Select Board from names submitted to it by a Town Manager Screening Committee which shall consist of 1 member of the Select Board, designated by it, 1 member of the School Committee, designated by it, 1 member of the planning board, designated by it, 1 member of the Finance Committee designated by it and the Town Moderator, who shall serve as the chair and call all meetings of the Town Manager Screening Committee. Whenever the position of Town Manager shall be vacant, the Town Manager Screening Committee shall be convened and shall solicit candidates, review applications, interview and rate candidates and submit the names of qualified candidates to the Select Board who shall appoint a Town Manager only from the names so prepared and submitted to it.
The Town Manager shall be a person especially fitted by education, training and previous experience in public administration and finance to perform the duties of the office. The Select Board shall appoint the Town Manager to serve for an indefinite term and shall fix the compensation for such person, annually, within the amount appropriated by the town. The Town Manager shall be appointed solely on the basis of demonstrated executive and administrative qualifications with special emphasis on financial matters. The Select Board may enter into a contract of employment with the town manager over wages, hours, benefits and other conditions of employment but no such contract shall be deemed to prevent the removal of the Town Manager by a majority vote of the full select board. The Town Manager need not be a resident of the town or of the commonwealth. The Town Manager shall not have served in an elective or appointive office in the town government for at least 365 days prior to appointment. The town may, from time to time, establish by by-law, such additional qualifications as seem necessary and appropriate."
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— minutes posted, FY26 (0 of 0) · — on YouTube, FY26 (0 of 0) · compared
How the Town Manager Screening Committee compares with the other boards →
The people: 5 named in Town Manager Screening Committee in FY2016, across 1 years of charts →
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Upcoming meetings
Nothing on the calendar for a future date. The site was last updated 2026-10-10; a meeting noticed since then appears when it is next built, and one that has already happened moves to recent meetings by itself.
Recent meetings
The last 15 dates this board met, by today’s date rather than the day the site was built — so a meeting moves here on its own. For a program, every agenda and set of minutes as one text file: /minutes/town-manager-screening-committee.txt.
Votes, newest first
From the town’s minutes (8 of 8 sets read) and our minutes of the recordings (6), joined per meeting: 5 substantive, 11 procedural (accepting minutes, adjourning). Where both records have a vote the town’s wording stands; none disagree on the outcome.
| date | motion | outcome | record | check it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7 2024 | Approve the draft Position Statement for the Town Manager search.“the position statement was approved unanimously.” | passed | the minutes | the minutes · video · ours |
| Oct 7 2024 | Approve moving forward with the position statement as discussed, with the small changes noted — moved by not stated | passed (voice vote; no opposition heard) | the recording only | video 31:13 · ours |
| Aug 19 2024 | Proposed motion to authorize the chair to finalize the solicitation with the procurement officer | not audible | the recording only | video 68:34 · ours |
| Jul 10 2024 | That MMA, ICMA, and GovHR is where the committee should be advertising the Town Manager position. — moved by unclear“a motion was made that mma, icma, and govhr is where we should be advertising.” | not stated | minutes + recording | the minutes · video 3:34 · ours |
| Sep 1 2016 | To schedule interviews on September 27 and 29 and to meet again on October 3rd to select at least 3 candidates to send to the Selectboard“voted to schedule interviews on september 27 and 29 and to meet again on october 3 rd to select at least 3 candidates to send to the selectboard.” | passed | the minutes | the minutes |
The town’s minutes are the record: a vote from them carries the minutes’ own words, checked verbatim. A vote from the recording only was written by a language model from machine captions — a motion as heard, and “not audible” a finding about the recording — and links to the second in the video. Both records are read as they arrive and joined here, whichever came first.
Time tracking
6.3 h of discussion across the 6 recorded meetings we have minutes for, by topic. A topic can overlap another, so the shares can sum past 100%.
As of 2026-10-10.