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Select Board makes TCTV director an employee, delegates non–department hiring to town administrator

Town of Templeton Select Board · January 6, 2026
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Summary

The board voted to make the TCTV director a town employee, authorized the town administrator to negotiate an appointment contract, and delegated hiring authority for budgeted, non–department-head positions to the administrator while reserving department-head hiring for the board.

The Select Board voted on Jan. 5 to change how the town engages the director of TCTV, and to clarify hiring authority for routine positions.

The town administrator explained that the TCTV director had been paid as a vendor through accounts payable, which would require an annual procurement or formal contract to continue. The board approved making the director an employee of the town; the motion passed with affirmative…

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