While there has been no decision made on who will be the next Hudson Town Administrator when current Town Administrator, Steve Malizia, retires at the end of the month, the Board of Selectmen made a decision on who will be the Acting Town Administrator.
According to the draft minutes of the July 23 Hudson Board of Selectmen nonpublic meeting, the Selectmen unanimously approved making Chief Assessor, James Michaud, as the Acting Town Administrator for the month of September, while also approving to increase his salary by 15% while performing those duties.
During the public portion of the meeting, the hiring of the next Town Administrator was also addressed.
“I just wanted to reiterate that I was disappointed that… creating a process for selecting a Town Administrator was not on our agenda for today,” Selectman, Heidi Jakoby, said during her liaison report, explaining that it was her understanding that it would be on the agenda during the meeting.
Board of Selectmen Chair, Bob Guessferd, also addressed the process during his liaison report at the meeting.
“I know everybody’s probably concerned about the status of the Town of Administrator search,” he said, noting that he wanted to give an overview of where they are in the process.
Guessferd said the consulting firm, hired to help with the process, will be doing the initial selection process.
“MRI, as we know, is doing the initial selection process,” he said.
Guessferd explained that all the applications were submitted, and that they went through them saying “they are going to be recommending finalists hopefully by the end of the month.”
From there, Guessferd said, “They’re doing telephone interviews and once they get the telephone interviews done, then we will have our time to face to face interview them and go through the rest of the process which we will further define at the next meeting.”
Guessferd said he wanted to make sure everyone knew that they were actively working on it, and “it’s not something that’s just sitting by the wayside.”
