Whitman Board of Selectmen Approves Town Administrator Job Posting With $177,000 Salary Cap

WHITMAN -- June 17, 2026, Whitman Board of Selectmen approves town administrator job posting at a salary cap of $177,000 and skips a $15,000 search consultant. At its June 17 meeting, the board voted to post a town administrator position immediately after Town Administrator Mary Beth Carter reported that Community Paradigm Associates and Bridgewater State University each quoted $15,000 for a full search process, a cost members rejected as too slow and too expensive given Carter's anticipated departure within months. The approved salary range of $167,000 to $177,000 drew concern from member Sean Lally, who noted that comparable towns are paying upward of $200,000: "Abington went to Kingston. It was 200. And then July 1st, 214." The board also established a two-member budget subcommittee of Lally and member Dawn Byers, appointed seven residents and officials to the new Hobart Dam Replacement Committee, approved $83,000 in end-of-year line item transfers across three departments, and was notified that Veterans Services Officer Declan Ware has resigned to join a three-town district at higher pay.