RANDOLPH — The Selectboard has hired an interim town manager.
Tom Yennerell, founder of the consulting firm Municipal Management Services, Inc., which serves communities in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, will officially take over from outgoing Town Manager Trevor Lashua next week.
Lashua, who has worked for the town since April 2021 is moving on to Windsor, where he will replace longtime Town Manager Tom Marsh, who is retiring in June.
“Yennerell has provided interim manager services to multiple communities, including Killington, Thetford, and Woodstock,” according to a news release from the Selectboard.
Yennerell’s “salary has not been set yet,” Randolph Selectboard Chairman Larry Satcowitz said in a Wednesday email.
The Selectboard signed a contract with Yennerell last week. The contract did not include an exact salary, stating the Selectboard will compensate Municipal Management Services Inc. “a weekly salary equal to the high end of the advertised range for the new manager,” according to a copy of the contract. As of Thursday morning, a job description had not been posted to the town’s website.
Yennerell will stay in the position until the board hires a permanent town manager.
“We hope to have a new manager in place by sometime in September,” Satcowitz wrote.
On April 30, the Selectboard signed a contract with the Vermont League of Cities and Towns — a Montpelier-based nonprofit organization that assists and advocates for municipalities across the state — to conduct a search for Randolph’s next town manager.
The town will pay the organization a flat $12,000 fee and reimburse it for “direct costs of advertising, brochure design, background check, and expenses incurred during the project,” which are estimated to be $3,000 to $5,000, according to a copy of the contract.
Dominic Cloud, who serves as city manager of St. Albans, will lead the search for the league, according to the news release. He will also be working with a group of residents and town officials who are part of a search committee.
