Town of Braintree

Tom is good guy,

and I believe he will have the best interest of the town at heart.

By TMM

Tom is the best man for job.

That is more than I can say for the other Tom.

By Tom knows Braintree

My View on Hiring

Reynolds has been hired. It was mentioned on this site about ten days ago or so? I understand he's been given an unprecedented two or three years to get the necessary credentials for the job (licenses such as CDL truck driver's license, hoist engineer's hydraulics license, wastewater and potable water engineer's licenses), so it proves to me if he was the best qualified, he had no qualifications other than being in the right place at the right time?
If it is true that former Sewer Dept director Toma was a candidate, I'm actually surprised he wouldn't have been hired. He was experienced, licensed, an engineer and has worked in water & sewer agency work for years and is a born and raised Braintree person? So we hire a politically connected, well liked, but unlicensed, uncredentialed and non-engineer in the place of someone who already knew Braintree's operations? Hmm, do I smell something here?
We hired Whalen, the department executive director who didn't have the credentials because our esteemed DPW Commissioner hired in in the position he is in using ''his license'' stipulated for the executive director's position? So we have an unqualified (credentials wise) executive director and now an unqualified (but best qualified of the many candidates)second in command in that agency? What's wrong with this emerging picture in our DPW agency?

By Bernie

Nationwide

A nationwide search couldn't have found a
better person for the job. Congratulations, Tom.