SABATTUS – Selectmen have chosen Sabattus’ first town manager, Gregory Gill.

Gill and the board reached an agreement Thursday night that will bring the former Minot administrator to Sabattus.

“I think he’ll be a real good fit,” Selectman Gino Camardese said Friday.

Details of the agreement are scheduled to be released Tuesday night, following the signing of a contract.

Gill was chosen from 20 candidates for the first-time job, created after town voters last year approved a new charter.

A nine-member search committee narrowed the candidates, eventually bringing two people for second meetings with selectmen.

“It’s been a good six months from start to finish,” Camardese said. “The committee did a great job.”

Gill’s versatility, from such issues as town roads to the computer system in the town office, is what earned him the position, Camardese said.

And an ability to think on his feet.

“Every time we tried to throw him a curve, he got the question right,” he said.

Gill also has experience working in town government dating back to 1989, working as a code enforcement officer, building inspector and assistant town manager in Livermore Falls over a five-year span, according to a 2004 Sun Journal story.

From 1994 to 2004, Gill worked as the town manager in Readfield. In February 2004, he became the first town administrator in Minot.

The job lasted a year, until selectmen there declined to renew Gill’s contract.

The Sun Journal was unable to reach Gill on Friday to talk about his new job or his work since leaving Minot.

A native of Jay, Gill graduated from Jay High School, and after college owned and operated a furniture restoration business in his hometown for 10 years.

In 1985, he sold the business and went to work at International Paper until its strike three-and-a-half years later.

Gill is scheduled to begin work in Sabattus on July 1.