The Martha's Vineyard Times Oak Bluffs to focus on local search for new town administrator Town enlists UMass Boston for help in search. Oak Bluffs enlisted Umass Collins in its search for a new town administrator at a meeting Tuesday night. — Rich Saltzberg With longtime town administrator Robert Whritenour heading to a new post in Yarmouth, Oak Bluffs is enlisting the help of the Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston. At a meeting Tuesday evening, selectmen charted their course by voting to conduct a local search for a new town administrator with the assistance of UMass Collins. The town will spend the first month advertising the position locally to seek local candidates. If the local search isn’t fruitful, selectmen will expand their search off-Island. The UMass Collins services will cost the town $9,000.