At the 3/18/2023 Town Council meeting the current Tax Collector, Allison Parsons, was reappointed to server for another one year contract. Parsons has server as the Tax Collectors since 2021.
In a late addition to the Town Council agenda posted on Monday afternoon ‘Appointment of the Deputy Town Clerk’ was added. The Town Manager announced that Town Clerk Clerk Sherry Farrell was appointing Allison Parsons to serve as the Deputy Town Clerk. The Town Manager stated this was a ‘return to a model observed in the past’ no other explanation was given for the change.
Reviewing the Town Annual reports indicates that the currently Deputy Town Clerk, Christie Campbell, was appointed as the Deputy Town Clerk in 2018 serving until this year. In 2017 there was no Deputy Town Clerk. Kathleen Donnelly served as Deputy Tax Collector and Deputy Clerk from 2012 to 2016. Jane Hicks served as Deputy Tax Collector and Deputy Clerk from 2009 to 2012. At no point in the Annual Report (2009 thru 2023) did the Tax Collector server as the Deputy Town Clerk.
Christie Campbell has served the Town of Londonderry as an assistant town clerk since 2004, in fact is the longest serving clerk in the clerks office having served 12 years part time and 8 years in a fulltime capacity.
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Update: Christie Campbell has served in the Clerks Office since 2004. 12 years part time and 8 years in a full time capacity.