Carlotta Pini is no longer the New Ipswich town administrator, Selectmen announced last week.
Pini had been New Ipswich town administrator for less than a year.
Selectmen were not forthcoming with the details of Pini’s departure.
When asked Thursday if Pini had resigned or been fired, Selectman John Veeser said, “It’s a personnel issue, so we’re not discussing it.”
Veeser also declined to answer whether Pini had submitted a resignation letter.
Pini was working as the town administrator last week, but Veeser would not confirm the date of her last day of work. During the May 21 meeting, Pini was serving as the town administrator during the Select Board meeting, and there was no indication given that it was her last week on the job.
On Tuesday, May 28, during the Select Board meeting, Select Board Chair David Lage announced Pini was no longer working for the town, giving no other details.
Joanne Meshna, who was New Ipswich’s town administrator prior to Pini, is currently filling the role until a new town administrator is hired. The town is currently advertising for the position.
Pini was hired by the town in June of 2018. Prior to her role in New Ipswich, she had a contentious ending with the town of Rindge, where she was the town administrator for six years. She left the job in 2013, in what was considered a “forced resignation,” where she resigned voluntarily, rather than be fired.
In an interview with the Ledger-Transcript in June last year, when she was hired in New Ipswich, Pini said the Select Board at the time was looking for “something different” than the board that hired her.