Editor:

I read with distress the inaccuracies in the recent Gazette concerning the Buxton Personnel Review Committee. 

Per Cliff Emery, selectmen asked to sit in on our interviews and we flatly refused. I have been a member of the Personnel Review Committee for years and have no knowledge of their asking that, and consequently being refused. He further stated they had no idea what questions we had asked, and they asked the same ones. If he didn’t know what we asked, how does he know they asked the same ones?

Actually, they have been sitting in on interviews. Sometimes there were as many as eight people interviewing candidates. In October 2007, I received a letter from the selectmen notifying committee members of a scheduled interview. The letter stated that some candidates were overwhelmed with so many interviewing them. 

So, in that letter, selectmen requested that only one committee member attend the meeting. That one member attending may be why Dan Collomy said there was only one active member of the committee. Furthermore, if there is only one active member, why was it necessary to ask that only one attend?

If selectmen want to get rid of the Personnel Review Committee, honesty would be more professional, though not as successful.

Sylvia Young

Buxton