Killington Town Manager Michael Ramsey resigns

By Polly Mikula

On Tuesday, July 30, Killington’s Town Manager Michael Ramsey submitted a letter of resignation to the Select Board. The board accepted Ramsey’s resignation after an executive session Friday, Aug. 2 at 5 p.m., announcing the news publicly.

Ramsey also requested that the Select Board waive the 60 day notice that’s in his contract and instead proposed his last day be Aug. 16, which is almost exactly a year from when he took the reins on Aug. 14, 2023.

The Select Board, however, did not vote on whether to accept the contractual deviation, Friday. Instead Chris Karr will speak with town counsel Kevin Brown on Monday, Aug. 5, before the board meets again.

“We just want to make sure we have everything covered. We received the town manager’s resignation. Michael has asked to waive the 60 day period, which was contractual. We would like to speak to counsel so that we can come back with any other conditions that we would like to meet as a result of waiving the 60 day notice,” said Select Board member Rob Hecker announcing the decision.

“There are codes and signatures that only you have access to… like to Federal grant money,” explained Jim Haff. “So I think we’re going to go through stuff like that, just to make sure we have access before you leave, that’s all.”

“I think this is very reasonable. You’re asking for something outside of a contract and what we’re saying is let’s just make sure we get our ducks in a row and see if there’s anything we want to ask of you.”

“I don’t want to be the one to break the contract that we wrote without counsel’s advice,” said Karr.
“I can work with either,” Ramsey said.

Resident Don Martin asked who would cover as town manager after Ramsey’s departure.

Haff answered, “I’ve already reached out to VLTC, they have given us a few names of former retired town managers who will come in for 4-6 months as interim managers… they can also help us find and hire a new town manager,” he said.