MONMOUTH – Town Manager Jason Simcock has resigned after a year in office to take a job in Gardiner.
Simcock told selectmen of his resignation Wednesday night.
He begins work as Gardiner’s director of planning and development on Nov. 21, four days after his final day here.
The move isn’t political, he said.
Rather, it gives him a chance to pursue “a personal interest, a chance for me to concentrate in an area of interest,” he said.
Simcock will be able to help Gardiner with its downtown redevelopment plans as well as its efforts to make the city’s waterfront a community centerpiece.
“I’ve just got a great opportunity to get into a field that I’ve always been interested in,” he said.
An advertisement seeking his replacement is set to run in Sunday newspapers around the state, Simcock said.
The Maine Municipal Association also is posting the job opening.
Selectmen are tentatively scheduled to begin interviewing applicants on Nov. 14, nearly a year to the day after Simcock started on the politically charged job.
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