Town Administrator

Contact:	Keith A. Bergman, Town Administrator   bergman@littletonma.org
Address:	Town Offices, 3rd floor  37 Shattuck Street, P.O. Box 1305, Littleton, MA 01460
Phone:	978-952-2311
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Keith A. Bergman became Littleton's Town Administrator on September 10, 2007. Bergman served as Town Manager for the Town of Provincetown from 1990 to 2007, and began his career in municipal management on Nantucket in 1981. Bergman holds a master in city and regional planning degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (1981), and a bachelors of arts degree from Vanderbilt University (1979). Awards include a 1995 public safety program excellence award from the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), innovation awards from the Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA) in 1993 and 2003, and leadership awards in 2005 from the Citizen's Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA) and in 2007 from the Housing Assistance Corporation of Cape Cod (HAC). Bergman was one of the first 50 trained by Former Vice President Al Gore and his non-profit, The Climate Project, to give the slide show on global warming featured in An Inconvenient Truth.

Town Administrator by-law passed by 5/5/07 ATM Article 12, approved by AG 3/17/08

Section 1. The Board of Selectmen (BOS). shall appoint, and may remove, a Town Administrator. The Town Administrator shall be selected in accordance with Section 2. Section 2. The Town Administrator shall report to the BOS. The Town Administrator shall be appointed according to the following process: 1) The TASC shall consist of 5 members as follows: a) Chair, a member of the BOS, appointed by the BOS. b) A member of the Finance Committee, appointed by the Finance Committee. c) A member of the School Committee, appointed by the School Committee. d) A member of the Personnel Committee, appointed by the Personnel Committee. e) A member at large with municipal management experience appointed by the BOS. 2) The Town Administrator Selection Committee (TASC) shall submit more than one candidate to the BOS. The BOS shall: a) Conduct final interviews as required. b) Appoint a candidate to the position by majority vote. c) Or, send back to the TASC with directions for further action. Section 3. The Town Administrator shall directly supervise and conduct performance reviews for the following current and future department heads unless otherwise specified by statute: Assistant Town Administrator for Finance and Budget; Head of the Highway Department; Facilities Manager; Head of Information Technology; Building Commissioner; and Human Resources. The department heads shall be appointed by, and can be removed by, the Town Administrator subject to the approval of the BOS. Section 4. The Town Administrator shall administer the Town’s performance review process in order to ensure consistent reviews across all departments. The Town Administrator shall have the following responsibility to ensure that the reviews are conducted in a fair and timely manner: a) Responsibility of performance reviews for direct reports of the Town Administrator; b) Oversee the review process for employees who report to a department head; and c) Provide input for employees who report to Town Boards.  Section 5. The Town Administrator shall have input in the hiring of employees of the Town Boards unless otherwise stated in a statute. The Town Boards retain the hiring decision. The Town Administrator shall provide input to performance reviews to ensure that the reviews are conducted in a fair and timely manner in accordance with the Town’s performance review process. Section 6. The Town Administrator shall be responsible for the budget process.