Manteo Board to discuss search for new Town Manager at Aug. 20 meeting

By Mark Jurkowitz | Outer Banks Voice

Kevin Brinkley

The Town of Manteo has announced that the Board of Commissioners will hold a Special Workshop session at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 20. There is a short agenda, but one of the items is of major importance—the search for a new Town Manager to succeed Melissa Dickerson.

In what appeared to be a surprise announcement on Aug. 6, the Manteo Commissioners accepted the voluntary resignation of Dickerson , who had served in that post since March 2022 after first joining town government as Manteo Planning Director in 2017.

No reason has been given for Dickerson’s decision. But during their Aug. 6 meeting, the Manteo Board appointed Kevin Brinkley—a former Nags Head Polic

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