Officials want guidance on whether it is legal for a town councilor to vote on matters involving the Oakland Fire Department if the councilor also receives pay for responding to rescue calls on an emergency basis.
Town councilors Wednesday did not seek public input, or even indicate they would be voting on a new manager, before promoting Kelly Pinney-Michaud, the town's finance and human resources director, to the top post.
Ella Bowman resigned this week after nine years as the town manager in Oakland, where she had been on administrative leave, and she says pushback she received for being a transgender woman led to her departure.