Town Administrator Gets B+

Town Administrator Timothy J. McInerney earned the rough equivalent of a B+ tonight during his evaluation from the Board of Selectmen.

Using a grading scale of zero to nine, selectmen gave him his highest ranking in the category of town administration, which includes overseeing the town warrant, keeping complete financial records and efficiently executing the general laws, town charter and selectmen votes.

His other scores were:

Relationship with selectmen: 7.4

Staff and departmental relationships: 6.9

Budget and finance: 7.3

Community relations: 7.5

Here is a sampling of the written comments he received.

"Budget work has been good, but needs to continue to work and respond to the concerns and questions of the Finance Committee and involve the department heads''

"Is personable, but sometimes is not timely in his responses or has been reported to 'brush' people off''

"Has worked extremely hard at increasing professionalism of the staff''

"Has confidence in his staff and enables them to work independently and with authority.''

"Morale in the Municipal Center is below average. Many feel there is no direction and the operation of the Municipal Center and they [are] just putting out fires.''

Selectmen will discuss his goals for next year at a future meeting.

McInerney began the final year of his three-year contract April 7. He went without a pay increase last year, but suggested that selectmen should consider one for his final year.

The maximum pay raise he can receive is 3.5 percent.