Town-wide org charts

What Lunenburg Public Schools is voted, holds and raises

The bands are ours; the ranks are the town’s. Chief, Deputy Chief, Captain, Lieutenant, Sergeant are printed beside the names. Sorting them into levels is our reading, and nothing published says who reports to whom — so a Business Manager and a Principal both sit in the top band and this page does not claim one is above the other. A board is ranked only by the officers it elects: chair, vice-chair, clerk. A member who is a director somewhere else is not that board’s deputy.

Why so many boards have nobody at the top. The town’s officials listing marked its chairs with asterisks under a footnote reading “** denotes chairperson”, and stopped printing it after FY2016. 46 bodies name a chair somewhere in their own report and the rest never do, so a board can appear here as a list of members with no chair — which is what the record shows, not what the board looked like.

What this cannot show. Whether a post was cut. A name missing from one year to the next can be somebody leaving a post that is still funded, or a post being eliminated — the Assessing office reported being “fully staffed for the first time in over a year” in FY2024, which is a year of posts that existed and stood empty. It also shows no pay, no hours and no FTE, and a person who appears under two roles is one person doing two jobs.