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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Select Board
Date: 2021-12-29 Time: 7:30 PM
Building: Location:
Address: Session: Open Session
Purpose: Executive Session Version: Final
Attendees: Members - Present:
Chair Karen Herrick, Vice Chair Anne Landry, Secretary Mark Dockser, Chris
Haley
Members - Not Present:
Carlo Bacci
Others Present:
Town Counsel Ivria Glass Fried, Community Paradigm Consultant Bernard
Lynch, Administrative Specialist Jackie LaVerde
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Jacquelyn La Verde
Topics of Discussion
This meeting was held remotely via Zoom
Chair Karen Herrick called the meeting to order in open session at 7:36 pm. She identified
all Select Board members participating remotely. She shared that the meeting will be
convened in Open Session, then the Board will move into Executive Session to address two
items: to conduct a strategy session in preparation for contract negotiations with the
Selected Town Manager candidate, Fidel Maltez (non-union); and to conduct contract
negotiations with the selected Town Manager candidate, Fidel Maltez (non-union). The
Board will then return briefly to open session to potentially accept the contract with the
selected Town Manager candidate, Fidel Maltez.
Mark Dockser moved that the Select Board enter into Executive Session, pursuant
to General Laws Chapter 30A Section 21(a)2, for the purpose of conducting a
strategy session in preparation for negotiations with the selected Town Manager
candidate, Fidel Maltez, a non-union employee, and to invite Ivria Fried, Town
Counsel, Bernie Lynch of Community Paradigm Associates, and Jackie La Verde to
attend the meeting, and return to Open Session after the discussion for the
purposes of continuing on with the meeting.
The motion was seconded by Chris Haley and approved by unanimous roll call vote
of 4-0.
Karen Herrick reconvened the meeting in Open Session at 8:21 pm, and asked Mr. Dockser
to share a brief statement on behalf of the Select Board: We are very pleased to announce
that we seem to have agreed on terms with Fidel Maltez, and subject to some final
language, we would like to have a formal signing of the agreement at our meeting on
January the 4M in Open Session. We would like to invite Fidel and his family to join us at
that session to make everything official and move on to Town Manager 3.0.
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Mark Dockser moved to adjourn at 8:22 pm. The motion was seconded by Karen
Herrick and approved by unanimous roll call vote of 4-0.
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