Besieged Woodstock town supervisor Bill McKenna last week criticized the other members of the town board for not providing sufficient due diligence in town hiring. This week he got an earful of what he had been asking for when he proposed increasing deputy town clerk Michelle Sehwerert’s duties.

He didn’t like much of what he heard.

What followed was an example of professional personnel management that pleased no one. Town clerk Jackie Earley described what had taken place as “grandstanding.”

There is a full-time bookkeeper, McKenna explained. The former bookkeeper comes in occasionally to help, and there is a part-timer. Sehwerert has also been keeping the books for the water and sewer department since the retirement of bookkeeper Pam Boyle, he said.

Councilmember Bennet Ratcliff as

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