Templeton forms town-administrator screening committee; April Komet, two residents named

Templeton’s Select Board and its advisory committee on July 30 formed a town-administrator screening committee to review 11 applicants and recommend finalists to the board.

The advisory committee voted 5-0 to appoint April Komet to the screening committee. The Select Board then approved two at-large members, Matt Black and Nicole Roberts, after motions during the special meeting; the board recorded a 4‑yes vote that produced the screening committee.

The committee’s stated membership will include one advisory-committee member (Komet), two department heads who volunteered — Jackie Prime (director of community services) and Police Chief Michael Bennett — and two at-large residents (Black and Roberts). The board discussed replacing the previously planned school-committee seat with an at-large resident seat because the school committee had not returned a nominee in time for the July 30 schedule.

The meeting included a review of the screening committee’s procedures under Massachusetts open-meeting…