Personnel Board

The Billerica Personnel Board was proposed in the 1958 warrant (Article 35, submitted by Robert A. Dunstan and others) and established by Article 35 of the 1959 Annual Town Meeting as a permanent board to act as a central authority on personnel problems and on wage and salary classification for town employees, advising the selectmen, the Finance Committee and other boards. It has five members appointed by the Town Moderator for staggered five-year terms, a structure carried into the Town Charter. The board drafted the town's Personnel By-Law and its annual wage, salary and hour schedules for employees other than elected officials and school employees, and reported to each Annual Town Meeting. Charles W. MacRannolds chaired it from 1959 to about 1971 and Stasia J. Rudgis was its secretary for more than twenty years. The town reports list the board as vacant from 2015 through 2024; five new members were appointed in 2025.