Selectmen to Enter Negotiations for New TA

The Rehoboth Board of Selectmen voted Monday to enter into negotiations with Deborah Arruda to serve as Town Administrator.

Arruda has served as an interim Town Administrator for the last two years. There is also an assistant town administrator.

Chairman Skip Vadnais said the assistant town administrator position was “open but unfunded.”

Selectmen believe the changes will help stabilize the work environment in the selectmen’s office and allow more progress to be made on various initiatives.

“We have so many things going on and we have such a reliance on the selectmen’s department,” Selectman Michael Deignan said. “We’re going to make a positive motion forward and be able to move the town forward in a positive direction.”

Arruda noted when she began working for the town in 2018, her position was not assistant town administrator, but rather, “an assistant to the town administrator.”

That position was later eliminated, Arruda said.