Chelgren Finalist for Top Marblehead Post
Wenham Town Administrator Jeff Chelgren will be interview by the Marblehead Board of Selectmen on Wednesday night as one of two finalists to become that town's next town administrator.
Jeff Chelgren, Wenham’s town administrator, has again been named a finalist in the search for a new town administrator in another North Shore community.
On Tuesday, the Marblehead Board of Selectmen announced it would interview Chelgren on Wednesday night as one of two finalists in the search for a new town administrator. Current Town Administrator Tony Sasso is scheduled to retire this spring.
The other finalist is Thomas Younger, who is serving as the interim Town Manager is Ipswich.
The interviews are scheduled to begin in the Selectmen's Meeting Room of Abbot Hall in Marblehead at 6 p.m.
For two months, the Marblehead Town Administrator Search Committee had met in executive session and Wednesday night’s public interviews are the first time Marblehead officials will discuss any of the candidates in public.
Both Chelgren and Younger have been finalists in similar job searches in the region is recent months.
In November, Chelgren was one of three finalists to become the town administrator in Nahant and, after one of the finalists dropped out, the Nahant Board of Selectmen voted 2-1 to choose Saugus Town Manager Andrew Bisignani over Chelgren.
Younger, who before Ipswich was the Town Administrator in Belmont -where he lives - since 2005, was a finalist to become the Town Manager in both North Andover and Winchester. He did not get the job in either town.
Younger resigned from his post in Belmont in November.
Chelgren, who earns $93,456 a year, has been in Wenham since 2002. He was one of several non-union town employees in Wenham that were included in a package of pay raises that would have been funded by a transfer from a reserve account that went before Town Meeting voters in November. It was overwhelmingly rejected.