Despite the settlement, town administrators maintain that the Police Department did nothing wrong.

Stephen Maio was the town administrator as of 2013.

Executive authority is vested in an appointed town administrator (on the council-manager model).

Easton is governed by an elected committee of selectmen and a town administrator.

"We are not prohibiting anyone from having a public phone within their business establishment," said Joseph Manning, the town administrator.

Positions filled by appointment include the Town Administrator and other positions.

Sometimes this is a part-time position, with larger towns hiring a full-time town administrator, who answers to the first selectman.

Municipal government is overseen by a five-member board of selectmen and a town administrator.

He criticized town administrators for refusing to adopt a conservation zone and failing to ask developers to set aside land as open space.

Robert Weitz, Sheffield's town administrator, estimated that the town's population rises about 20 percent in the summer.