East Hampton has Town Manager in Mind

The East Hampton Town Council has found a candidate for town manager it could all agree on and offered the position during an executive session on Monday.

"It was unanimous to enter into negotiations with Candidate 1," council member Ted Hintz said.

The council interviewed the candidate during a nearly two-hour long executive session. The offer will be contingent on the candidate passing certain medical requirements. The candidate, however, won't be identified until the job offer is accepted and his/her employer notified.

The council has been down this road before, offering the position to a candidate a month ago. However, those contract negotiations hit a snag and the council terminated them for reasons not made public.

The council will have another executive session on Tuesday, where it is expected to begin negotiations.

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Hintz was optimistic.

"Everything happens for a reason," he said, referring to the failed negotiations with the previous candidate, "so hopefully everything will work out well."

East Hampton has been without a permanent town manager since September of 2010, when Jeffrey O'Keefe resigned during his attempted removal of Police Chief Matt Reimondo and the elimination of the police chief position altogether. Reimondo was reinstated after the issue went to referendum in November of that year. Since O'Keefe's departure, the town has had four people step in to fill the void, most recently Finance Director Jeff Jylkka.

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