FAYETTE – Fayette Town Manager Jim Collins resigned this week after town meeting voters agreed to reduce an account that contains his pay.

Collins is the fifth town official to resign since April.

Selectmen accepted Collins’ resignation after their meeting Monday.

Collins has been town manager for nearly two years. Under Collins’ leadership the town has received a $250,000 grant to build a new fire station, among other grants. He also tightened enforcement of shoreland zoning rules at selectmen’s direction, and oversaw improvements to Starling Hall.

Collins plans to leave July 2 and will receive five weeks of vacation pay.

During the annual town meeting last week, resident and former selectman Tom Welch questioned a raise in the town manager’s pay. Collins said the raise represents a 3 percent increase over last year.

Last year Collins’ salary was $47,000. This year it is set at $48,400.

Among Collins’ contributions to the town are:

• Writing a $250,000 CDBG grant for the new fire station.

• Applying for and receiving more than $100,000 in FEMA funds for storm damage to roads and town garage roof.

• Negotiating the close-out of salt/sand shed construction problems.

• Initiating the formation of a town Web page that has had more than 4,000 hits. It posts meeting notices, agendas and minutes of town board and committees.

• Working with soil conservation districts to get a demonstration grant for erosion control on Echo Lake Road.

• Negotiating a significantly lower price for propane for the library and school and getting the supplier to agree to install a 1,000-gallon tank needed by the school for its generator in case of loss of electricity.

• Getting an additional $1,000 a year in reimbursement from the state for plowing Route 17.

• Saving the town approximately $10 per ton in paving costs by switching from cold mix with chip seal to hot mix.

Voters agreed to decrease the account for municipal operations and administrative activities by $10,000. That account contains the town manager’s pay; operating expenses; pay for other staff members; and money for code enforcement, hearings, elections, town boards and committees, and legal expenses.

Town meeting Moderator Darryl Brown told voters Saturday that they could cut the appropriation for the account but could not say that the reduction would be taken out of the town manager’s pay. The selectmen decide the town manager’s salary by state law, Brown said.

Other resignations have come from Selectmen David Pollock and Tim Walton, Budget Committee Chairman Joe Young, and longtime Budget Committee member Clyde Walton. Young and Pollock said they resigned because of town financial issues. Tim Walton said he was resigning because of increasing responsibilities at his job.

Selectmen plan to advertise for a new town manager. A special election will be held Aug. 3 to fill the vacated selectmen spots.

There are now three members left on that board: newly elected Selectman Abigail Holman, and re-elected Selectmen Tom Mitchell and Martin Rigoulot.