HOWLAND, Maine — The Board of Selectmen will meet next week to decide whether to accept the resignation of Town Manager Tracey Hutton, the board’s chairman said Wednesday.
Hutton, who had been placed on administrative leave with pay March 16, resigned at the end of the business day Monday, according to Chairman Glenn Brawn, who declined to say why Hutton resigned or what led her to be placed on leave.
“It is an employment issue,” Brawn said Wednesday. “It is confidential, and it will remain that way.”
Hutton has an unlisted telephone number. Messages sent to her via Facebook were not returned Friday or Wednesday.
The board voted 4-0 in November 2012 to hire her to replace departing Town Manager Jane Jones at a starting salary of about $52,000.
Hutton has two master’s degrees from the University of Maine, in ecology and environmental science and in public administration.
Hutton served as a code enforcement officer for several years in towns including Hermon and Harpswell and was a regional shoreland zoning coordinator for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection in its Bangor office, she has said.
She was a city planner for Claremont, New Hampshire, before taking the Howland job, she has said.
The town’s auditing firm is providing some oversight as budget preparations continue. Selectmen will meet at 6 p.m. Monday to decide whether to accept Hutton’s letter of resignation, Brawn said.
He anticipated it would be accepted and that a search for a replacement would begin shortly.