Mayor Will Flanagan has hired School Committee Vice Chairman Shawn Cadime to be the next city administrator.
Cadime, 29, has been a program financial analyst with General Dynamics in Taunton for the past seven years.
“I am looking forward to working with Shawn. He is energetic and dynamic. … He will be an asset to the sixth floor,” Flanagan said.
“He brings with him skills in finance, in collective bargaining and qualities of intergovernmental relations. He has a good working relationship with City Council, the School Committee and other elected officials at the county and state levels,” he said.
Cadime begins May 17.
He’s expected to sign today a two-year contract at a salary of $95,000. His pay will be adjusted to $87,400 after he accepted the 8 percent pay reduction consistent with cutbacks by other administrators, Flanagan said Wednesday.
He replaces Adam Chapdelaine, who held the job the past 1½ years until mid-April. His [...]

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