Shrewsbury Town Manager Daniels Morgado's retirement not an exit
Apr 12, 2018Semon Telegram & Gazette Staff @CraigSemon SHREWSBURY - Town Manager Daniel J. Morgado is leaving municipal government but he insists that he is not leaving from the labor force anytime soon.“I’m not retiring from work. I’m retiring as town manager,” Mr. Morgado said Friday inside his Town Hall office. “I will be slowing things down but I will continue to be engaged in doing other things.”The Fall River native was a 21-year-old student at Bridgewater State College in 1977, when he was elected to the Planning Board in Swansea, where he was raised. The following year, he graduated college and served as executive secretary to the Board of Selectmen in Swansea. He later worked in Shrewsbury as Town Manager Richard D. Carney’s administrative assistant in the early 1980s before becoming town administrator in the town of Blackstone and later town administrator in Easton.Mr. Morgado served as the first town administrator in Grafton from 1987 to 1997 before becoming the town manager for Shrewsbury, which he is retiring from after nearly 20 years. His last day is July 7.On the same day of receiving word that Moody's Investors Service has assigned a Aa2 rating to the town of Shrewsbury, Mr. Morgado, who lives and is going to stay put in town, said making a smooth transition, maintaining the consistency and hallmark of Shrewsbury and continuing to improve the town's quality are what he considers to be his crowning achievements“When you look at property values in town, buying a home in Shrewsbury has never been a bad investment,” he said. “And children in Shrewsbury, for decades, have consistently gotten wonderful educations and they have been able to take those educations and create great lives for themselves.”Before she became lieutenant governor, Karyn E. Polito was on the board that voted Mr. Morgado in as Shrewsbury’s third town manager. However, Selectman Polito initially favored another candidate, but seconded then Selectman Laurie I. Lindberg’s nomination of Mr. Morgado.Despite being her second... (Worcester Telegram)
