8/20/1980 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Minutes

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Fi t that we move on to that subject.. h� i'rMan:- I ' ll subscript that bar once 'again sabring that -if anyone has anything they want to bring, written signed statement or charge, that' s what we are here for. 15. Chairman recognized Mr. Rich, Chairman of the Personnel Board. Mr. Rich stated that he had a few things he would like to go over. #1. we received a letter back on the mechanic wanting more recommendations. That as far as we can find, is not necessary, we found .only one person to be qualified and that' s the one person we recomme d .d. We have looked through the PAP and the bar-laws and it 's net necessary to recommend more than one. We -couldn' t find .one and for the sake of putting down another- name, I wouldn' t do it* hai-rman 'responded that this goes war back and the nut is this . The appointing authority is the Board of Selectmen. To have only re ommended one person to us out of 5, means that we can only select the one that- you gave us. We want .to retain for us- if you will, that obligation of appointing from a -series of 2 or 3 candidates . I . think what would -survice us is for you to say in the letter: The follo ing people have been interviewed and our -recommendation is Joe Peters . The following people are not qualified but they are and list their names. Mr, Rich stated that was acceptable Selectman Thomas sta.ted that when we just receive one name that you are more or less telling us who to appoint. You are not, giving us a choice. Chairman stated that the choice is obviously. Mr. Rich responded that they could reword their letter but that this man is qualified. I personally checked out where he work myself. chairman stated that the Board agrees and that it probably is,:-th intention of this Board to follow that recommendation but we just want to keep on the same track. 2. On the sargeant appointment. we were asked to rush that right along and we spent a 'whole Saturday and nothing has been clone on it, we were wondering why we were rush and it has been dropped for so long. Chairman stated that the Board was meeting on Thursday at 1:00 p.rn, to discuss the promotion to sergeant. I think that the rush was - coming from the Police Department. #3, There was a letter seat to us from Town Counsel, Joe Reardon, wondering whir we bypast hire and went directly to John weld. That wasn' t the fact. John worked on the PAP and we felt that the question we had directly concerned hire. Chairman stated that he understood. The only thing .that concerned Joe was that he had some information that John didn' t have and John might have core out differently in what he said, if he had talked with Toe. I think it' s more of a communications thing than anything else. � _.