The Sterling Select Board’s 10 November 2021 Amended Meeting Agenda contains this line item: “Consider stipends for interim TAs.”
https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2021_11_10_amended_agenda.pdf
So, are the “interim TAs” individuals already picked by the Select Board to act as “interim” Town Administrators? If so, how did the Select Board do that without violating the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law? There is not a single reference to retaining “interim TAs” in the posted Select Board Meeting Agendas going back several weeks.
Presumably Kellie Hebert, the Town Administrator hired by this Select Board about ten (10) months ago, is still out on “paid leave.” The Select Board has not announced otherwise. How long will we Sterling taxpayers be footing her “paid leave” bill?
If Kellie Hebert is still out on “paid leave,” how does this Select Board have legal authority to pay a ‘stipend’ to ANY ‘interim Town Administrator’? The Fiscal Year 2022 budget passed at the June 2021 Sterling Annual Town Meeting does not provide a line item for any such ‘stipend’ in these circumstances.
J.G.
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 