Everett committee asks clerk to list positions with 'special municipal employee' status and recommend rescissions

The Everett City Council committee on legislative and elections asked the city clerk to compile and submit a detailed list of positions designated as "special municipal employees" under Chapter 268A and to recommend which designations should be rescinded as outdated.

Councilor Robert VanCampen said the item was intended as housekeeping to remove obsolete titles that no longer exist or are unused. City Clerk Sergio Canelio told the committee he and staff had researched records for several weeks and identified roughly six positions that appear to remain in use — including poll workers in the elections office, a school committee member holding municipal employment, members of the library board of trustees who are municipal employees, and the assistant city solicitor — while many older titles (for example, a parking department data input clerk or a technology center coordinator) no longer exist.

VanCampen moved, and the committee seconded, to refer the matter with a favorable recommendation and asked the clerk to provide Mr. Burley and the city council with a letter itemizing the titles, the rationale for retaining particular designations, and recommendations for rescission. Councilor Smith asked that the letter omit individual names; the clerk agreed.

The committee voted to refer the matter; the clerk was excused after the presentation. The committee’s action was a referral for recommendation; any rescissions of designations would require further council votes after review of the clerk’s written list.