No Candidates Left for Clarksburg Administrator
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Selectmen Chairman Carl McKinney said the town will start from scratch by organizing another search committee and readvertising the job.
The search committee received about a dozen resumes and selected four to interview, two of whom declined. That left two as finalists including Debra LeFave, who had resigned as selectman to apply.
"They only ones [the search committee] were interested in out of the four were the two they put forward," said McKinney afterward. "One of them withdrew and one didn't answer the call. It behooves us to reopen the search and do it to the best of our ability."
McKinney said the Selectmen were not in a position to "determine the constitution of a new committee" at Tuesday's meeting.
The town's in a time crunch with the imminent departure of Town Administrator Michael Canales for a city post in North Adams just as budget season approaches. The board will meet with Canales and town department heads on Thursday afternoon plot a way forward. The mayor of North Adams has indicated he would allow some "sharing" of Canales' time.
The town is now down a selectman, a town administrator and soon, a town accountant. The Selectmen accepted with "deep regret" the resignation of Beverly Cooper, the town's part-time accountant, effective this April. That post will also have to be filled.
"There's going to be a lot of work sharing in this town, I got to tell you," said McKinney. "Our plate is full."
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