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June 13, 2007

Somerset administrator gets Wareham job offer

SOMERSET, Mass. -- John McAuliffe, the town's administrator for the past 9-1/2 years, has been selected as the new administrator in Wareham -- and, he said this afternoon, he expects to take the job.

The vote by the Wareham Board of Selectmen, announced earlier today, was unanimous.

"They put a very solid offer on the table,'' said McAuliffe, 45, who said that while a final deal has not been cut, one appears likely.

Wareham was offering between $105,000 and $120,000, which would probably mean a pay increase for a man who was also a finalist in Middleboro, Mass.

McAuliffe said Wareham is wooing him because, ``first and foremost, they want to tackle some financial challenges, which works nicely with my background'' with the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.

McAuliffe began looking for another post after losing the support of the majority of the three-member Board of Selectmen in a town where the political climate has gotten increasingly venomous.

He angered the current chairwoman of the Board of Selectmen by ruling that her husband, then a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals, may have bent the rules when developing some house lots.

He was also the subject of two citizen petitions calling for his removal, both drafted by a local chiropractor who objected that his wife's business was cited when McAuliffe tried to enforce the town's sign ordinance.

-- Journal staff writer C. Eugene Emery Jr.

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