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Resident urges town manager study after forensic audit; board to review report
Summary
During public comments, a resident urged the board to form a committee to study hiring a professional town manager after the town’s forensic and financial review found deficiencies in revenue collection and controls; the board said it will review the audit at an upcoming working session.
During the public‑comment portion of the Jan. 28 meeting, resident Scott Dubin read from the recently posted forensic and financial performance review covering fiscal years 2020–2023 and urged the town board to convene a committee of residents and board members to evaluate whether Greenberg’s administrative model should shift to a professional town‑manager structure.
Dubin said the audit documents ‘‘failures in the most basic work of government’’ including revenue collection, enforcement and internal financial controls, and argued those problems reflect structural limits of a part‑time elected model that concentrates operational authority in a few positions. He called for a study of a town‑manager model and asked the board to include residents in the review.
Board members acknowledged receipt of the forensic audit (posted on the town website) and said the report will be discussed at a working session scheduled for the coming week. No formal vote on governance structure was taken at the Jan. 28 meeting; the board encouraged formation of a process to review the audit findings and consider recommendations at a subsequent meeting.
